Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening

thrway_1000 · 2015-03-05T16:31:26+00:00

It may be that a bit of swagger helps in maths, where confidence plays a part in boys’ lead(though it sometimes extends to delusion: 12% of boys told the OECD that they were familiar with the mathematical concept of “subjunctive scaling”, a red herring that fooled only 7% of girls).

Yeah, you can't walk down a corridor in high school without being pushed out of the way by swaggering math nerds who can argue that 2+2=5 with such disarming confidence that the examiners give them full marks.

The theorem the journalist is struggling with is:

At the minimum, girls = boys (see Axiom 1: Blank Slate)
If not girls > boys (see Axiom 2: You Go Girl!)
If boys > girls, then there's some socialization that needs to be corrected.

Tmomp · 2015-03-05T20:03:05+00:00

If you make the schools a place boys like they'll like to go there. If you make them unpleasant for boys they won't, which it seems like we've been doing for decades, medicating them and calling them a problem instead of realizing the system is the problem.

If you create a system that requires drugging people to make it work, you made a broken system. If you blame young boys for not liking something adults created, you're looking at the wrong place for the source of the problem.

Frittern · 2015-03-05T17:04:30+00:00

From the article:

"Singapore still canes boys, while sparing girls the rod." It also canes men and not women. This is classed as torture.

Singapore is an awful country.

thrway_1000 · 2015-03-05T16:40:57+00:00

https://archive.today/wkyUI

njskypilot · 2015-03-06T00:41:10+00:00

It's very simple. since the early 1960's the U.S. government has spent trillions on boosting girls self esteem and investing in their education. Boys, have not had any money spent on them to boost their self esteem. Lets go just a few of the programs that are "self esteem boosters for girls. Bring your daughter to work day, Title X, Domestic Violence laws that greatly favor women to the point that a women only need to allege DV or Rape and the full resources of the state will be brought to bear against the accused male without any proof, All sorts of government programs that are only for the female gender. There are hundreds of more examples but this is why women are now surpassing men in a variety of fields. And unless us men start asserting ourselves they will steamroll us even further.

Lrellok · 2015-03-05T20:51:21+00:00

Omfg how many times do I have to repeat this; THATS THE RADFEMS FUCKING GOAL!

Remeber "feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice". Women are attracted to whomever can provision them. If only women have access to higher ed (or education at all) then only women will be able to provision other women, and poof! all women will become lesbians! Go go magical radfem thinking!

The goal of feminism is not cultural marxism. That would imply some form of equal standard for all genders. The goal of radical feminism is cultural fuedalism. They want men reduced to a sub caste, equivelent to the eta in japan.

DaveH1227 · 2015-03-06T08:32:01+00:00

I am greatly concerned that this is a result of feminism. If not nearly every teacher would push girls into pole position, the gap wouldn't be that big. My personal story is the following: There are 4 boys in my class and 26 girls. On a regular basis, the male geography teacher prefers girls to boys, but I learnt to deal with it, until this geograpy class. The entire class was talking, because the class was so boring. Me and my friends talked approximately 3 times. For the 3rd time, the teacher got fed up with the class, and penalised us with a test( only the 3 boys, because one was missing.) This test didn't contain any questions. The teacher said that we should write down the last lesson, without any questions. We were upset, and in my opinion, rightly so. Of course, we knew nearly nothing, since the teacher said in the previous class that we are going to write a clausure this class. We didn't, but got this penalty. Then we were silent for 4 weeks, and we thought that okay, it was meant to scare us. On the 4th week, the teacher distributed the tests, every single boy, including me, got an F and he wrote it into the e-log. This story shows, how the schools nowadays favor girls to boys. If you have such story, then add it in comment.

Title	Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening
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Date	March 5, 2015 4:14 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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