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Short answer: NO! Women earn majority of bachelors degrees, graduate degrees, advanced degrees etc etc. Plus men do most of the dirty, dangerous jobs. 92 % of deaths from accidents at work are men. Only 8% of deaths at work happen to women. Suicides? 78% are men. Men are victims of violent crimes far more than woman, twice as likely. 78% of murder victims are men. 93% of federal prisoners are men. Even when men and women commit the same crime, with similar criminal history, women almost always get lower sentences. Life expectancy? Women live 5 years longer Etc etc....

The following lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers was delivered on August 3, 2004 at the Young America's Foundation 26th Annual National Conservative Student Conference in Washington, DC. (The text that follows contains adult language and themes and is intended for mature audiences only. Reader discretion is advised). Several years ago, a radical feminist philosopher visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she gave a lecture attacking what she called “male science.” This theorist confidently explained that science was part of a discredited oppressive, patriarchal, white-male, bourgeois legacy. It was tainted to the core by sexism, classicism, and racism. Women, she...

Pushy feminists, who want to remake competitive boys into cooperative girls, run rampant in my neck of western Massachusetts. There are five colleges in the area, including two for women - Smith and Mount Holyoke - that aid and abet this old girls network through their respective (but not respectable) women's studies departments. These academic gulags are typically run by masculinity-and-make-up-hating harpies.If you are a guy who digs NASCAR, shingles roofs for a living, and was moved by We Were Soldiers, this place is an estrogen chamber of horrors. In fact, when someone sneezes, the politically correct say, "Goddess, bless...