I find the ratio of anti-male bias vs anti-female bias in the media, academia, organizations of about 9 to 1. Occasionally you will see somebody in the media shorting women, but nine out of ten times, it is men being dissed.

And it is not limited to liberals, conservatives have their own hatred of men to flog thru their outlets, from portraying all men as football watching blockheads who are obligated to fight on behalf of the country to treating them like emotional midgets who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

One example that particularly sticks in my craw over the years.

The early articles contending that the small male Y chromosome means that men are devolving. Later research that showed the chromosome to be missing a lot of the redundant and relatively useless DNA material typical to most chromosomes (to fundamentally be a more efficient dataset) and the finding that the chromosome is mirrored and thus self-checking were not reported as widely. Thus, it is still widely considered that men are supposedly 'devolving'. This hurts me greatly, since I consider men to be evolving and indeed SUPERIOR to women. ;p

Imagine if the first article about the male chromosome instead had said that men's genes are more efficient because they have superior organizational attributes. This would never have gotten into the media and published. Thus, I say there is an inherent anti-male spin to everything in the PUBLIC REALM, not just the media and academia.

Men have been trained quite effectively FROM BIRTH and largely BY WOMEN to wince at any mention that they are not despicable. Do you know what sort of a damning effect this has on the souls of young sensitive men in particular?

Class of nursing students today- about 40 of us all very competitive- maybe 10 of those are guys. Now who do you think rose their hands to run for elected class officials? Yeah, that would be the men. Granted I'm only going for treasurer (so not a leader), but wanna place bets which sex wins VP and P and which other sex gets secretary? huh? huh? ;>

"BS, you're full of it as usual

Class of nursing students today- about 40 of us all very competitive- maybe 10 of those are guys. Now who do you think rose their hands to run for elected class officials? Yeah, that would be the men. Granted I'm only going for treasurer (so not a leader), but wanna place bets which sex wins VP and P and which other sex gets secretary? huh? huh? ;>"

Were the men preventing the women from raising their hands?

Should your school impose quotas on class elections because the poor females can't handle competition on their own?

Ridiculous and infantilizing at the same time, hyblaean. Pathetic.

"Were the men preventing the women from raising their hands? Should your school impose quotas on class elections because the poor females can't handle competition on their own?"

My point (& it surprises me not at all that you missed it) is that the women didn't think they were qualified- including me. The men were convinced they were qualified, they didn't second guess themselves at all.

Thinking about this... I bet the women will be more willing to vote for them, because deep in their hearts they think the men are more qualified, too. This is our culture Mr. Jim & I think it sucks. Wake up women, your country needs you. Hell, your damn class needs you.

Nice imaginative story, too bad there's no evidence for it. Isn't it nice to make up feminist stories?

BTW, the paper is here:

http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/apl935994.pdf

(PDF)

Why do you say that the reason women felt they were not qualified is cultural ? Obviously there are women who feel they are qualified to be in leadership positions in all facets of our culture, so how is that the women in your nursing class were adversely affected, but others are not ?

@ Hotrod

"Why do you say that the reason women felt they were not qualified is cultural ? Obviously there are women who feel they are qualified to be in leadership positions in all facets of our culture, so how is that the women in your nursing class were adversely affected, but others are not ?"

Ok, this is just a guess on my part, but we are all competitive people, women and men, we had to be to get this far. Everyone is 3.5 GPA and above and scored around 99% on the NLN. These are not slackers...well, I sort of am, but I wasn't when I started, or I wouldn't have made it in. The fact that none of the females of this group wanted to run for higher office is notable. We feel that we are good enough to become nurses, to be responsible for other people's health and well being (traditional woman focus), but that somehow does not translate into leadership potential (traditional male focus)? It's kind of weird. I feel it too, I am so not a leader, have no interest in being a leader. Why is that? It's not a lack of concern for my society, I have that in spades. It's not a lack of responsibility. What is it? I think if I can somehow figure this small puzzle out, it will give me some insight into the larger puzzle of women in American politics.

@ Mr. Jim

"Nice imaginative story, too bad there's no evidence for it. Isn't it nice to make up feminist stories?"

There is no way I can definitively answer this, even a video of our election process could be doctored- besides the fact that my classmates would probably string me up. No, I do not have a link to a study of women's inner thoughts handy. Sorry, I guess that does make my entire life invalid.

You are, purportedly, aware of some mysterious passivity among the women in your class. You can't put your finger on it, you can't even really identify the depth or intensity of this odd feeling.

Therefore it must be real, and it must be the fault of "The Patriarchy".

Bring on the government programs and quotas - Feminist Passive Blob Syndrome must be overcome.

Here's the equivalent "logic" to your thinking: my 8th grade daughter ran for class president and won, against a mixed field of boys and girls. Therefore, you are wrong.

Emotionalism and lack of accountability are weaknesses of character. Try logic and taking responsibility for your own actions and you might feel like you have more agency in the world.

It will be hard to wean yourself away from blaming all of your problems on men, but it will yield better results.