Dr. Warren Farrell Explains The Boy Crisis

Townhall.com ^ | March 6, 2018 | Rachel Alexander

[Chode]

they've been treated like defective girls for the last thirty years, that's what

[ClearCase_guy]

Feminism is one of the great evils of the 20th century. It has probably harmed women more than men, but it has hurt children most of all.

[yldstrk]

Lots of good points

[farming pharmer]

Normal family, four boys, all did well in school and everything turned out fine. I ignore most of this horsecrap.

[Bodega]

I think ignoring this type of commentary is to do it at our peril. Having been a single mother I did not find it easy and would have welcomed a male hand in the mix. Not only was I aware I didn’t always make good decisions (though I tried), it was the extra value put on another person’s opinion that balanced events out.

And boys are really different. I remember watching my son playing in a little mud hole with his trucks. The next time I watched, minutes later, he was sitting in the mud hole, splashing mud all over himself and loving the feel of it. My daughters were standing to the side pretending to gag at how dirty he was. I loved it all.

[Wuli]

Like many of the social “revolutions” of the 1960s, much was a state of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

It has not gotten better, it has gotten worse.

Television advertising is a vast “social educator”, sending messages beyond the “sales” job, it also promotes social attitudes.

Unless an ad is directly intended to sell something to men, it is my anecdotal experience of late that most ads are as if they are not “sex neutral” but directed at women, in their social message - achieve, you can do it, you’re represented, you count (the males are just backdrop), and worst of all is how many of the males in ads are a duffus (and similarly how “the dumb blond” has been not merely banished, but the female is NEVER a duffus, only the males are).

[Wuli]

Maybe we need for awhile to go back to sex-distinct K-12 schools.

[Bryanw92]

>>they’ve been treated like defective girls for the last thirty years, that’s what

Good article. Good comment. Both very true.

[Right Wing Assault]

Yes, it warms the bitchy hearts of feminists to attack and demean everything that makes a boy a boy and a man a man, but they and all women will pay for it in the future as the article says.

Men can be constructive and/or destructive. Women need to decide which they want. With the recent reports of young mean giving up on relationships with the "new" women, it may be too late for that generation.

[wbill]

Yep. I lay most of the problems with today's society at the feet of feminism.

Feminism has turned much of society into "Anything you can do, I can do better." Men and women are designed to complement each other, not compete.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

From their very first day of school, boys are badgered with disparagement. If they don't quietly sit in a desk for eight hours straight, they are poisoned with psychiatric drugs. They are told every day that boys are the cause of all evil in the world.

They are poisoned by years of daily exposure to estrogen fumes and unless they are sissified they will pay the consequences. Boys are indoctrinated with the idea that they are flawed and intrinsically evil, born into the world flawed beyond hope.
 

[sciencewriter86]

[Maybe we need for awhile to go back to sex-distinct K-12 schools.]

Of course we do. And we need to end women’s sufferage. Society has suffered enough. Societies without strong men are societies in decline.

[farming pharmer]

Reading Men are from mars, Women are from Venus was a small, but contributing factor in my friend's divorce.

[Kaslin]

They sure are.

[Kaslin]

I wouldn’t say the entire 20th century, more like the last 10-20 years. It sure continued and has gotten worse though in the 21st century

[MGG]

At my daughter’s Sports Awards Night in 2008. All the girls, except two. Declared what college they would be attending. Then it was the boys turn. All the boys, except two. Did NOT declare they would be attending college.

[P.O.E.]

Put the criminals & creeps in jail or the asylum. Let kids play outside.

[pinkandgreenmom]

The boys were badgered into submission by the feminazi teachers, administration (all female and one beta male), and girls at my son’s $$$$ Christian middle school. They were made to feel stupid, the girls were made to feel smart, etc. Of course I didn’t realize this until too late.

Fast forward to my son at his $$$$ Christian high school and you will find the girls in all the AP or honors classes and the boys in very few (if any) of those. Guess who is gaining admission to our state flagship university and who is living at home going to community college?

My boys have taken to watching an hour of “Everybody Loves Raymond” on TV every day. They think it is hysterical. I keep having to make comments about how isn’t it ridiculous how the wife is so smart and always right and the husband is nothing but a stupid jerk who knows how do absolutely nothing right.

[Wuli]

“Of course we do. And we need to end women’s sufferage.”

That I do not agree with.

The right to vote for women was achieved long before - and without descending into - modern feminism.

Your suggestion would support a rigid paternalism that is unnecessary to vanquish modern feminism.