Failing boys and the powder keg of sexual politics - The Globe and Mail

tomek77 · 2010-10-19T13:28:18+00:00

Quotes from the article:

On the rewriting of school books:

“If you had a picture of a person doing something positive, winning a race, performing an experiment successfully, etc., [you had to] make sure it was of a girl,” said one of the consultants involved in the revisions. “If you had to have a picture of someone doing a bad thing – bullying, making a mistake, being unsure which course of action to take, etc. – the image was invariably of a boy.”

The facts:

a hill of data suggests that boys, as a group, rank behind girls by nearly every measure of scholastic achievement.

The facts according to women's studies:

“It’s hard to argue that boys are being short-changed. Even with the generation difference, it’s very doubtful that today’s girls will be ascending into positions of power and today’s boys will be in a minority in business and politics,” said Paula Bourne, head of women’s studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Institutionalized sexism:

Talk[ing] of males in need can become a powder keg of sexual politics [..] CEO of the Canadian Council on Learning: "We don’t like to talk about it"

Last fall, University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera told the Edmonton Journal that as a female leader and visible minority, she hoped to be an advocate for young white men, calling their decline in universities a “demographic time bomb.” Angry students put up 300 posters around campus a few days later, likening the university president to King Kong. “Women are attacking campus,” they read. “Only white men can save our university.”

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Mottebayo · 2010-10-20T13:51:43+00:00

Thank you for posting part 1 of the series. After reading part 2 about male teachers and part 3 about the tendency towards over-medicating male students when compared to female students, I was disappointed that I couldn't find this.

Title	Failing boys and the powder keg of sexual politics - The Globe and Mail
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