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I have sat here, reading all of your posts. I see how you seem to RELISH in telling us all here, how "men don't go to college, and are uneducated, nowdays", and how "60% of college grads are women, blah.. blah.. blah... You leave out ONE little factor-- MOST OF THE "BIG LEAGUE" COLLEGES YOU SPEAK OF ACCEPT ONLY ABOUT one MAN, FOR EVER 3 or 4 WOMEN, "to make things fair" . So, what do you expect to see, in that regard???

Then, you jabber on, about "how men are going to have to change, to become the "househusbands", and to have supper ready, for the woman, who "brings home the bacon". AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, EXCEPT for the kind of men, who wear skirts, perfume, and makeup!!!! If THAT is the kind of man, you want, I'm sure you could find one, a Linguini-spined, , emasculated, feminized man, who is afraid to speak, without his "wife's" permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT.. as for the rest of us "real men", we will NOT do a "role reversal", and become a woman's "slave", or "plaything". We will simply find other things to occupy our time, and replace the need for a "partner".

However-- I am willing to BET, that you feel that a "strong , educated woman", is one that will trick a man into a marriage, get him to "donate a sperm", (as I am sure you don't think of using the term "father"), and THEN-- leave him, saying "I want the house, car, bank accounts, your retirement, and you can have the mailbox, and everything that comes in it, each day" . Then,this "strong, educated woman", would move on, and do this again, a couple of more times---- NEVER TAKING THE TIME TO WORRY ABOUT HOW MUCH PAIN SHE HAS CAUSED THE"MEN" in her life(after all, the career is most important, isn't it, NOT love,family, or anything else, those are distractions, to "having it all"!!!!!)

THIS are what I was speaking about , several months ago, when I said "some so-called "conservative" women, here on FR, wish to espouse the tenets of feminism, at the same time, as being "conservative". For this, I was called all sorts of names, and "making all men (in general) look bad".

Then, you jabber on, about "how men are going to have to change, to become the "househusbands", and to have supper ready, for the woman, who "brings home the bacon". AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, EXCEPT for the kind of men, who wear skirts, perfume, and makeup!!!!

Whoa, now you've really pissed me off. I've stayed home with my kids for the last 13 years, and I'm proud of it. As for skirts and perfume, I'll tell you what: Anytime you're game, they can lock the both of us in a phone booth and we'll see who begs for mercy first.

Say, has anybody seen my Sweet Gypsy Rose? Here's a picture when she was my sweet Mary Jo... ;-)

I have sat here, reading all of your posts. I see how you seem to RELISH in telling us all here, how "men don't go to college, and are uneducated, nowdays", and how "60% of college grads are women, blah.. blah.. blah... You leave out ONE little factor-- MOST OF THE "BIG LEAGUE" COLLEGES YOU SPEAK OF ACCEPT ONLY ABOUT one MAN, FOR EVER 3 or 4 WOMEN, "to make things fair" . So, what do you expect to see, in that regard???

The colleges are trying to get more males, but the males wont go to college. Lots of colleges are even taking boys with lower grades in order to try to get more males into school - there is an active affirmative action out there to recruit dumber males.

SCU in the News

A Growing Gender Gap Tests College Admissions By Peter Y. Hong Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 21, 2004

When admissions officers for Santa Clara University recruit new freshmen, they do their best to reach the kind of students they'd like to see more of on the Silicon Valley campus: boys.

"We make a special pitch to them to talk about the benefits of Santa Clara, as we do for other underrepresented groups," Charles Nolan, Santa Clara's vice provost for admissions, said of the school's efforts to boost male applicants.

It's a startling development to anyone who remembers that Santa Clara was all male until 1960. But the Jesuit-run school reflects an important transformation of American college life. Among the 4,550 undergraduates at Santa Clara, 57% are female. That matches the percentage of U.S. bachelor's degrees now awarded to women, a demographic shift that has accelerated since women across the country began to attend college at a higher rate than men about a decade ago.

Today, many colleges, particularly selective residential schools, face a dilemma unthinkable a generation ago. To place well in influential college rankings, those schools must enroll as many top high school students as they can — and most of those students are female. Administrators are watching closely for the "tipping point" at which schools become unappealing to both men and women. They fear that lopsided male-female ratios will hurt the social life and diverse classrooms they use as selling points.

Despite employing the same tactics used for years to lure ethnic minority students, few colleges say they give admissions preferences to boys. But high school counselors and admissions experts say they believe it is happening.

"At some schools, it's definitely a strategic advantage" to be male, said Chuck Hughes, a former Harvard admissions officer who is now a private admissions counselor and author of "What it Really Takes to Get into the Ivy League and Other Highly Selective Colleges." Vincent Garcia, a college counselor at the Los Angeles prep school Campbell Hall, said liberal arts colleges, especially, can be "more forgiving of the occasional B or even a C" from a boy. "Sometimes the expectation is a little bit less" than for girls, he said.