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Dr. Helen (the Instapundit's wife) has been beating this subject to death over the past couple of months. From what I can tell the major issues are:

boys are taught that they are inferior to women in public schools (i.e. the same achievement in science by a boy means less than that for a girl)
certain characteristics of boys are considered to be pyschological 'issues' (i.e. attention issues and competitiveness)
society now considers parents to be flawed if they make their children work; hence, there is a reduction in the ability to teach responsibility to children
people don't want children to work at all--they consider the quality of work done by children to be inadequate
our country has become significantly less 'kid-friendly', especially for boys
it is now culturally acceptable for boys to be submissive

There are other issues, but these are the ones I think are probably the most significant. People today don't want to be around children, especially boys. Boys are considered to be some sort of error. It's as if the parent is at fault for bringing a potential child abuser and a potential rapist into the world.

It's the same at the office as in school. Only feminized men and women get promoted. Even if they're total losers.

We had a VP who royally screwed up part of a computer upgrade. Cost will be 000's of 1,000's to fix. She's still there. Nobody cares. I said once, "We paid someone a lot of money to screw that up." "You can't say that!", was my boss's reply.

We had another one who hired her Deloitte gigolo as a consultant on the project. I never could figure out why he was even there till I heard that. Another loser. At least they let her go after the project was over and she collected her bonus.

Playing kissy-face around the office and then talking about them behind their backs is what management is about.

But they're all in it together. You can be a good-old girl as long as you play by the same rules as the good-old boys.