Excerpt from 'Men on Strike': Why Men are Avoiding College

Crimson_D82 · 2013-06-01T10:33:25+00:00

Sommers says, "Gender experts at Harvard, Wellesley, and Tufts, and in the major women's organizations, believe that boys and men in our society will remain sexist (and potentially dangerous) unless socialized away from conventional maleness. . . . The belief that boys are being wrongly 'masculinized' is inspiring a movement to 'construct boyhood' in ways that will render boys less competitive, more emotionally expressive, more nurturing--more, in short, like girls."

Which is the type of men women don't want.

Some feminist types even say it's fine that older boys and men don't get a college education because they can make it without one. Maybe so for some, but many more will fall in the cracks, getting nowhere in a career.

-and these are the men that will turn to violent crime, which is these women will day be a victim of.

Because historically women have been the second sex, and did suffer discrimination,

-and yet they were still protected and catered to because they were loved. They benefited from benevolent sexism that kept them out of the army or having to work for anything in their lives.

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LonelySOB · 2013-06-01T17:08:43+00:00

Reading some of the radfem quotes literally has made me feel queasy. That was disgusting. I think the most disgusting was the quote about how boys NEED to be made more like women who are more nurturing and caring. I have met wayyyy more women who fight each other over the stupidest and pettiest shit than guys. I'm not trying to be sexist I just want to point our how bullshit that statement is because I've hear stories of how cruel catty women can be to one another and yet we hear these disgusting quotes that men are inferior in the caring department? Just disgusting.

CrossHook · 2013-06-01T17:52:30+00:00

Right. It has nothing to do with the systematic discrimination against boys in school from grade Nothing at all.

To pretend that this is due to males chosen to avoid college instead of the result of girls receiving ever single advantage and ALL of the federal funding is a feminist wet dream.

ConfirmedCynic · 2013-06-01T17:33:59+00:00

Don't the figures show that more boys, both as a percentage and in real numbers, are going to college than ever before? It's just that even more girls are going?

The two real problems are (1) the disappearance of good blue-collar jobs, and (2) the imbalance in the ratio of girls going to college vs. boys.

circuitology · 2013-06-02T16:08:05+00:00

Diane Ravitch, the noted historian of education and a former assistant secretary of education asks: When will it be fair? When women are 60 percent or 75 percent of college enrollments? Perhaps it will be fair when there are no men at all."

Quite.

kwykwy · 2013-06-01T12:44:28+00:00

This article makes causative leaps based entirely on anecdotes and opinion. The reasons why more women than men attend college are complex, and discomfort in an environment dominated by women seems like an unlikely choice. There's no survey data provided on how many men feel uncomfortable, or how that discomfort actually influences their choices. There is data about other causes out there, which this author ignores.

To address the claims about schools that make men uncomfortable, there are many schools which are not overtly political, and the racial and gender studies programs which they identify as making men unwelcome are only a small part of the curriculum. It's easy to go through an entire four years at school without taking a course in gender studies, and if a few protestors on campus make you so uncomfortable you have to leave school, I don't think you'll do well in any major city.

There are some more likely reasons - part of the decline since the 1950s is the trailing off of the large force of men sent to college by the GI bill after WWII. There was parity in the 30s, then a huge peak, then a trailing off.

There are differences in development and socialization. Boys are more likely to be held back in school, diagnosed with special needs, commit suicide or go to prison.

And there are differences in support available, both institutionally and socially. Culture tells men to be strong and independent, and sends anti-intellectual messages.

There are answers to this situation, but I doubt this author is interested in them as much as scoring politically. It's revealing that the author of this piece simultaneously rails against the unfortunate decline in male college attendance and graduation and rails against efforts to improve that situation by constructing a better boyhood.

DerickBurton · 2013-06-01T11:11:09+00:00

Have you read the whole thing yet?

ahora · 2013-06-01T16:59:38+00:00

The left is destroying University. Really. It's angry and it's worst than ever.

Title	Excerpt from 'Men on Strike': Why Men are Avoiding College
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Date	June 1, 2013 7:51 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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