womens studies curriculums and their derivatives.
Very few folks are rooting for the men. However, there is a special women's chapter of the ACM in computing, and there are tons of special support programs for the women.
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I’m a high school English teacher, and I do see a distinct difference between the boys and girls in my classroom. That distinction is bound to tick off someone out there, however.
What I see is that girls love to complain. Even while achieving great things, many girls in my classes are more than willing to give in to hyperbole, create drama where there is little conflict, undermine their own excellence, and take out the stilleto against their fellow female classmates.
The boys are far easier to teach - even those boys who slouch into class unwilling to lift a finger. Boys sometimes get into brawls, but those are quickly resolved and the winners and losers get on with life. Girls, on the other hand, seem to love the melodrama.
Of course, like anything dealing with humanity, there are some exceptions in both sexes. Just thinking about my classes, however, the girls seem to enjoy the sport of being a victim and making others a victim, too.
Which brings me back to this vacant little report. Any high school teacher will tell you that the girls excel academically. The girls respond as if they are suffering. This report reflects that truth on a larger scale, as does an overview of the films, books, music, and theater which attracts a female audience. Boys life adventure and action; girls like stories about relationships, loss, love, and melodrama. What is more melodramatic than the loss girls suffer from the patriarchy, symbolized by the men they love, whom women have to endure throughout their lives?
Maybe some aspiring woman playright will take this report and turn it into theater, like “The Vagina Monologues.” It’ll be a smash success, filling the seats with weeping women mourning their achievements.
When I graduated college in 1974, I received an invitation to join this organization. I read a little about the group, and it was so rife, even then, with radical feminism, I had no problem refusing.