When boys do better it's due to sexism. Feminist media is cancerous.

kartu3 · 2017-08-18T09:13:51+00:00

One thing people need to keep in mind, is that absolute number of girls with A grades is much higher than number of boys.

A huge number of boys didn't even try and record number of girls did, which is most likely the main reason it happened.

Lethn · 2017-08-18T09:26:31+00:00

The article linked here does a very good job of explaining that this little media feeding frenzy targeting boys is actually completely fabricated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/6udo2o/boys_beating_girls_in_alevels_err_no/

They're counting on people being too lazy to look up the actual numbers.

2017-08-18T13:59:17+00:00

When girls do better it's because they're strong, smart and capable of conquering ANYTHING!
When boys do better the system is obviously broken and everything needs to be torn down and changed.

number4ty7 · 2017-08-18T11:25:00+00:00

No mention of the years (still continuing despite this bullshit spread all over the UK press) that girls outpaced boys being sexist or unfair.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2017-08-18T17:25:15+00:00

Wait, so girls did better for years and that was fine. But now that boys have done better once it's proof of sexism?

It's like those articles claiming the gap between men and womens life expectancy closing slightly is clear proof that we're waging a war on women.

liberalfederalist · 2017-08-18T11:54:19+00:00

But education experts claimed this was a “knee jerk reaction” and that the picture was much more complex.

“Looking at the new reformed subjects alone, girls actually performed slightly better than boys,” said Carrie Paechter, a professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University.

“The numbers are so fractional; we are not in a position to make sweeping generalisations.”

While boys did take the lead in top grades overall, the closing gender gap appears to be a result of female grades falling rather than a spike in male students’ performance.

Girls outperformed boys significantly in two subjects: PE, but a difference of 12.8 per cent, and psychology, where they were ahead by 8.8 per cent.

“Anyone claiming the reforms are sexist are jumping to unfair conclusions,” said Professor Mary Richardson, a senior lecturer in education at UCL’s Institute of Education.

2017-08-18T20:12:35+00:00

Frankly the fact that boys succeed at all in an environment where fewer than 10% of their teachers are men is staggering. Then feminist say the system favors boys because male test scores briefly bucked a trend of being lower.

Crusader_1096 · 2017-08-18T21:06:45+00:00

So when girls are doing better than boys, all is good. But when boys are doing better than girls, reform is needed? Why?

jeff_the_nurse · 2017-08-18T22:05:42+00:00

Girls do better for years: Girl power! How great of us to empower our young girls!

Boys do better for the first time in several years: We need to do something about gender disparities in education!

03sje01 · 2017-08-18T09:53:02+00:00

I'm in school and I can confirm that this is the opposite of the truth.

AnonJT · 2017-08-18T17:08:38+00:00

So for all of the previous years where girls outperformed boys, did those tests favor boys too?

SpeedDart1 · 2017-08-19T01:16:06+00:00

But the school system already caters to girls...

AgingAluminiumFoetus · 2017-08-18T19:59:35+00:00

IIRC the difference is only 0.5%, hardly notable in comparison, compared to the previous female lead. Hopefully it will continue to just fluctuate between the genders, to show no actual difference overall.

2017-08-18T23:53:19+00:00

"Wow, so the first time in a while boys on average do better than girls? Could it be that it was a statistical inevitability, that at some point the averages in a supposedly equal system would randomly flip which side it favors? Actually, it makes more sense that the system is against girls."

Seriously, how can they not tell that having girls always be above boys is sexist? They genuinely can't imagine a world where boys are in need of help.

Title	When boys do better it's due to sexism. Feminist media is cancerous.
Author	jaib9
Upvotes	761
Comments	24
Date	August 18, 2017 8:08 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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