Another study, much like the Educational Sector's bankrupt report by Sara Mead, which concludes, that its not bad news about boys doing worse, but good news about girls doing better, and that boys are doing better than ever before.

Of course, these arguments are flat ridiculous. To argue that boys are "doing better than ever before," both the Education Sector and AAUW base their argument on absolute numbers. That is to say that more men go to college, than say in 1950. The argument is bankrupt, easily destroyed by arguing the absurd. for instance, say that today, 100,000 people are going to college, 60,000 girls, and 40,000 boys. All of a sudden, the neext day, the college population doubles to 200,000 people, 150,000 girls, and 50,000 boys. The argument can be made, well, boys are doing better than ever. Now we have 10,000 more boys going to college. But in reality, whereas yesterday we had a distrubtion of 60% girls, and 40% boys, today, we have 75% girls and 25% boys.

In 1992 when the AAUW came out with its report in 1992 that girls were being screwed in schools, the AAUW supressed evidence that girls had already surpased boys in almost all subjects and almost all measures. That trend has condinued. Today, with 57% of colleges made up of women, the disparity continues to grow.

When women were the ones outnumbered at colleges, we blamed the schools, and passed title IX. When boys are getting screwed, we blame the boys and largely ignore the problem. Anybody who has studied the situation knows that both the Education Sector and the AAUW's recent report are attempts to make lemonade out of lemons, by putting a gloss that which has become abundantly apparent; boys are getting metaphorically raped by an education system.

What has happened is that women's organizations, in an attempt to mitigate the fair distrubtion of resources, have played the race card and said, oh, don't worry white middle America, your sons aren't doing that much worse that white girls, its only the blacks and Latinos who are woefully behind -- no problem here. The argument is racist, and patently untrue on both the interpretation or the research and the actual facts. Boys -- ALL BOYS -- regardless of income or race fare worse than girls, a reversal of fortunes that has specifically been ignored by both the media and academics, because aren't as sypathetic as girls.

Both the Orwellian language used of the arguments by opponents of helping boys, and the repeated attempts to disprove the obvious, betray the notion that girls progress has been not come at the expense of boys. This is a fight about resources. Thank God for the women who are mothers of boys.

It is also rather scandelous that Title IX, a gender neutral statute, has been interpreted by the bureocratic establishment as benefiting anyone but girls. The enforcement has been corrupt.

after robot sex?

"...The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare, the war against the Machines..." T2

the Likudnik vote. I went out to a formal function with a relation of mine who brought an AIPAC apologist friend. She specifically stated that Obama hates America, that he is a traitor and would sit down with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. She also ranted about his wife. The catch-phrases were in every other sentence of her comments on the subject. She was a Hillary supporter, who will now vote for McCain.

The Jewish votes make up a small percentage of the American electorate. The money and the Israel Lobby polictical machine is why politicians whore themselves for the radical right Israeli agenda. John McCain is whore. If I met him, I'd tell him to his face. Hopefully, the progressive faction of the Jewish community will not line up behind the Lieberman Likud party, but instead take a rational, reasoned approach to both foreign policy and domestic politics.

One can both be an ally of Israel, and hold Israel responsible for its actions.

i love cat calls. i often go out into the world looking like this:

http://people.tribe.net/magdelyn/photos/049cbb5e-3570-4a59-8204-92af6140a743

and have had some interesting experiences on the streets, like this:

http://fauxwhore.blogspot.com/2006/10/faux-girl-fun-in-tenderloin.html

of course i have been inappropriately touched, followed, leered at, and stuff...but it doesn't bother me cause i'm 5'10" and male, so i don't get the instinctual fear of such attention.

"...what, exactly, is the problem with the lack of female authors?"

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Women want to define manhood. Actually, it has already happened. Welcome the metro-sexual. Vomit.

"Seriously, what's so 11th grade about this is not the books on it, but the idea that certain books are either "masculine" or 'feminine.'"

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Chick Lit

Romance Novels <----------- feminine

Romantic Comedy

so they made the list. A 2-fer.

is going to put some focus on the cocaine addicted, full term fetus? Abortion at 37 weeks is abhorent, either intentionally or because of a reckless disregard.

someone who agrees with me that they over roast their beans, making a strikingly bitter, over priced cup of pure grossness.