If boys are being 'left behind' at uni, then why do they grow up to spectacularly overtake women in the workplace?

Yet another idiotic, amateur-sociologist-cum-journalist writing about gender issues, taking a nasty anti-male stance. I've become pretty inured to the stupidity and hate of this genre, but when the targets are children or teenagers it does tend to get my hackles up.

I suppose its ironic in an article in which a woman is crowing about female educational achievement that she makes the kind of schoolgirl error in logic that would probably make her the class dunce. I'm talking, of course, of her failure to understand the fact that any 'trend' that is occurring now will take time to filter up the food chain of careers. Just because 17 year old girls are now more ambitious, why should that change the earning differential between men and women in their 40s, 50s or 60s?

Anyway, Mzzz Fairly (she certainly doesn't write fairly) certainly doesn't look like a spring chicken, so she might want to re-consider her celebration of the collapse of motivation amongst young men (again, accepting for the time being that this is real). She may be able to afford to take a snooty attitude towards carpenters but when she's truly old and in need of a pension, good health care, perhaps some nursing care, and certainly preferring a stable society around her, she might want to re-think her stance on the collapse of male motivation. After all, who still provides the lion's share of tax? Do you really want a ghetto Britain with vast swathes of young men out of work, with no motivation, not paying their taxes (and, indeed, leeching off the welfare state) and spending their days drinking and playing pool? Does she really celebrate all the consequences of this, not least of which may be increased mental health issues and yet higher suicide rates amongst young men?

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richardwrites said...: Thank you for this. It is spot on and it opens the door to mothers getting involved on behalf of their sons. Mothers are the only people in this culture with moral authority and a hundred angry mothers could smash the whole problem.; 11:33 am

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."