Earlier when I was heading back home in a Lyft (with a female driver, just FYI), we were just casually talking and then the conversation shifted to her occupation where she works as an educator specializing in special ed students and she talked about the struggles she endured with the school system's treatment of her son, who has Asperger's (as do I). I proceeded to mention how I too had terrible experiences with the school system and special ed, and how badly boys are treated, and she agreed with me saying they are. She even said she became an educator solely to help combat this to try to help special ed students after the terrible treatment her son faced.

It's great that others are acknowleding the unfair treatment and bias boys face in schools, which is another major example of misandry in both society and government with the favorable treatment female students constantly get and how poorly male students are treated. But it's even worse for male students who have certain conditions or challenges, and are in special ed. I witnessed and experienced firsthand and still bear trauma from those experiences. Schools for so many years have been horribly misandrist against boys and boys not only overwhelmingly make up the vast majority of dropouts, but also seldom if ever get help when they're being mistreated. But especially when they're mistreated by abusive female teachers or students, something I experienced plenty of and I saw the unfair double standards with how they got away with mistreating male students without ever being reprimanded. This is something you sadly still see so much of, with these videos showing male students retaliating against female bullies who are clearly the instigators but how people are quick to immediately take her side and reprimand the boy instead when all he was doing was standing up for himself against an aggressor. Something both men/boys and women/girls alike have every right to do and shouldn't be punished for when it's justified.

It felt great to talk about this with someone else who knows firsthand about how terribly boys are treated in schools and especially those in special education and who have particular conditions. Moreso with it being a woman, who sees right through the obvious bias about how horribly misandrist schools are and have been for so long and is trying to change and challenge that. To me this is what true gender equality is all about, both men and women standing up for each other and trying to correct an injustice when either faces it. Just something I felt like sharing that was worth it.