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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I object to the pearl-clutching over how boys are falling behind in school. It's implying that the gains women made are responsible by placing those gains alongside the loss the boys have suffered. Like I said, it's NOT a zero-sum game. We can educate boys and girls with the same curriculum. It actually would require less tinkering with the education system and more with our gender bias in rearing children (as wellgull points out, boys are allowed and even indulged in acting out while girls are drilled from day one not to make waves).

I wish it were just the education system. It would be a helluva a lot easier to fix.