DO WE CARE ABOUT BOYS? - Yahoo! News better late then never

kanuk876 · 2010-01-23T03:00:27+00:00

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2010-01-23T23:18:35+00:00

No, we just pump 'em full of ritalin. It's cheaper than actually giving a fuck about 'em.

redditbannedmeagain · 2010-01-23T02:18:14+00:00

In 1970, black wives were already more educated than their husbands.

Astonishing given that people are still claiming black boys only suffer because they're black and never because they're male.

Anyone got a better source than a Y! article for this stat?

2010-01-23T17:53:36+00:00

I've been reading a lot of articles lately that mention that 60/40 split in favor of females for bachelor's degrees and often the conclusion is drawn that the educational system is somehow failing men.

As a person who is of the age where many of my peers are choosing whether to get a higher education, I can say that the common perception is not that the educational system is failing men in any specific way, but that both sexes in my generation are painfully aware of the less than ideal state of higher education in this country, including things like cost, student loan debt, degree over saturation and the relative worthlessness of a high school diploma.

Given these conditions, I think lots of men who choose to forgo the expense of a degree are also more confident that they will be able to find a job and get on the job mentoring with only a high school diploma. But women are generally less confident of finding work in this way and will more often opt to take on the expense of a college education for more employment security later on.

The difference, then, is how either gender assesses the risk of not having a degree versus taking on the debt and poverty of student life and not in the education system conferring more advantages on one gender over the other.

This is also why men tend to go for the degrees which confer specialized training, which can weigh in favor of getting a degree over the desire to avoid the expense, and why women get degrees in random liberal arts which they'll never use after college. Women just want the security of having a degree and men want to conserve monetary resources and maximize their investments.

Now it seems to have worked out that women with degrees do have the advantage in the work force, but I doubt that that was something that men took into account when they were 18 and choosing whether to go to college or not.

2010-01-23T16:03:52+00:00

Modern man is quite soft but I reckon it would take only one generation back to basics and nature to toughen us up again.

plopgun · 2010-01-23T11:12:42+00:00

This is one core reason why out-of-wedlock birthrates are so high.

Is this really a relevant concern?

Title	DO WE CARE ABOUT BOYS? - Yahoo! News better late then never
Author	jalam1001
Upvotes	31
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Date	January 23, 2010 12:29 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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