They're only falling behind if this is a zero-sum game, asshole.

[trinityvixen]

From earthrise: OMG WHO NEEDS ROLE MODELS FOR GURLZ AND COLOURED PEOPLE WHEN THE WHITE BOYS AREN'T BEATING THEM ANY MORE!?!? SAVE WHITEY!

You just know it's a fucking joke when this author can point to the United State Supreme Court's one female member and think that that's plenty. Yes, 1 woman versus eight men, that's clearly a sign of the end of days for white boys. Fuck off, you cunt.

The education panic over boys is the same old nonsense. Boys are falling behind because our education system, somehow, was built to cater to girls. Right. This is the system that has remained virtually the same for decades, in both style and substance and (thanks to tenure) character. What is really going on here? Eroding white male privilege has defenders of it in a tizzy. Good.

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[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, the article is clearly written by a left-winger; it's more a case of "live by identity politics, die by identity politics." The whole idea that we should elect a president by which identity group needs a role model the most is ludicrous, but since the author decided to adopt that ludicrous premise, she looked at and concluded (correctly, I think) that young black males in America are faring worse than young white females, and therefore need a role model more. Of course, based on this model, the author should be running a draft Condi Rice movement, but that's not going to happen.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

As I commented above, this kind of article almost denies the existence of black women. Clearly, you can only support one or the other, never both! Black women? Who ever heard of such a thing?

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

This the whole raison d'etre for voting blocs. It's not even a male/female, black/white division -- in my immigrant experience sociology class years ago, I researched the division with the "black" voting bloc between African Americans and West Indian immigrants.

This is exactly the point: the formation of blocs helps force politicians to pay attention to the specific needs of different groups of people with different ideologies. However, it also helps divide and conquer on an individual level.

One of my best friends in college, when asked, said she identified first as black and second as a woman. She is forced to choose. I'm not sure what the correct road to stable pluralism is, but it ain't what we got now, that's for sure.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that she identifies with color over gender. I would think, given the immediacy of your body as a womyn, you'd be more sympathetic to its needs and assaults upon its character. It is a sad thing indeed that she is made to feel the color of her skin first instead of the more emotionally, physically impactful fact of her gender.