Lionel Tiger is always worth reading, as he points out the
dangerous double-standards in academia and elsewhere toward boys
and men. In his latest op-ed, he writes:
[T]he publicly financed educational system is at least 20% better at producing successful female students than male, yet hardly anyone sees this as remarkable gender discrimination. While there is a vigorous national program to equalize male and female rates of success in science and math, there is not a shred of equivalent attention to the far more central practical impact of the sharp deficit males face in reading and writing. . . .
When it comes to health status, the disparity in favor of women is enhanced by such patterns as seven times as much federal expenditure on breast cancer as on the prostate variety. And no one is provoked into action because vaunted male patriarchs commit suicide between four and 10 times as frequently as oppressed and brainwashed women. . . . There is scant acknowledgment that we face a generation of young men increasingly failing in a school system seemingly calibrated to female rhythms.
Hat tip to Instapundit, who also linked to this like-minded posting.
But you won't catch a single lesbigay group, so big on
"coalition building" with abortion-on-demand feminist lobbies and
all manner of leftwing causes, ever going to bat for
boys.
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