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So-Called 'Male Privilege' in Higher Education

Sat May 5, 2007 3:09 PM EDT
politics, socialism, feminism
By TheSharpenedPen
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So last time, we were talking about how pathetically bad young boys were doing in today's school system – the poor reading and writing skills, the high drop out rate, and incredible levels of sedatives that these young boys were being fed. This time around, we'll be discussing how poorly men have been performing at the university and college level – again as a direct result of the feminization of our educational systems.

"Not feminism!" the leftist peons tell us. Oh no, then how do you explain the absence of tests and quizzes and the increasing focus on group work and assignments which favour girls? Well, in truth there's not point in arguing with these Marxists, because even if they're wrong, it's all about the bigger picture – a world-wide utopia. Right, with half the men incarcerated, economic depression and social havoc from declining population rates, increasingly oppressive government – trying to deal with out of hand crime and violence. That's quite the utopia you're making – everyone single, depressed, living alone, doing jobs they hate, iris scanned, finger printed, waiting for the bottom to drop out. I can almost hear the sounds of angelic harps ringing out even now – oh no wait that's the metal detector homing in on Johnny's lunch box.

But I digress, we're talking about the disappearance of men, whole scale, from universities and colleges across Canada, the United States, Britain, Sweden etc., etc., name a western nation! Spin that globe and point! Because each and every nation has instituted the same feminized policies, and is seeing a disappearance of men at the college and university level, which will spell disaster for the human species if left unchecked – and appearances are that very little is being done. In the United States for example,

Everybody wants to know where all the men have gone. The Washington Post calls their disappearance the "question that has grown too conspicuous to ignore," and USA Today notes "universities fret about how to attract males as women increasingly dominate campuses.

Females now outnumber males by a four to three ratio in American colleges, a difference of almost two million students. Men earn only 43% of all college degrees. Among blacks, two women earn bachelor's degrees for every man. Among Hispanics, only 40 percent of college graduates are male. Female high school graduates are 16% more likely to go to college than their male counterparts. (National Post: Mysterious Decline-Where Are the Men on Campus? April 29, 2003, by Philip W. Cook and Glenn Sacks)

I was looking through some stats actually since affirmative action plans began – guess who benefited over the past 30 years? If you guessed black men, then you're dead wrong: black men have remained at roughly the same level of university attendance since inception, but women, women have skyrocketed as a percentage of university populations, rising now to 60% in many areas, with all signs being that the numbers will rise even into the low 70's in the not too distant future. Still, we are to believe that no discrimination exists against men – it's just that women are higher achievers. Well with a group work, assignment, presentation focus at all levels of education, duh, no wonder! Turn your seats into a semi-circle children and let's sing kum ba ya.

Women have outnumbered men on campuses across the country (United States) since 1987, and the gap has slowly widened each year. Federal statistics released this summer show that women make up 57 percent of all college students nationwide.

Men won't necessarily disappear from campus, says Thomas Mortenson, a national expert on college trends through his work as senior scholar at the Center for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. "But I can tell you that we're going to continue on that trajectory for the foreseeable future because of the ways boys are not graduating high school, not going on to college (and) not completing college."

That's bad news for everyone, Mr. Mortenson says. He noted that although men make up 51 percent of the college-age population, they receive just 44 percent of the bachelor's degrees awarded. This is the smallest proportion since 1946, at the end of World War II, when men received 43.1 percent of bachelor's degrees — a number that jumped to 76 percent after the war with the passage of the G.I. Bill.

Boys are also more susceptible to "distractions" on the streets, Ms. Tucker notes. They're more likely to want to hang out with friends, or get involved in other activities — legal and illegal — that they find more interesting than school.

Indeed, Mr. Mortenson says, a major contributing factor to the discrepancy between men and women on campus — especially among minorities — is that more college-age males are being jailed than ever before."

(The Providence Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, February 13, 2002, Missing - the Big Man on Campus, Tristate region reflects widening gender gap at colleges across U.S.)

So let me get this straight boys and girls. MEN make up the majority of the college aged population, some WOMEN still choose to stay home with their children and YET men make up roughly 40% of the University population!? And you call this fair? Ah, but women cannot escape the collapse of society due to social engineering any more than men can, because as the last line forebodingly states, "..more college-age males are being jailed than ever before". What this means, "Sista", is that your chances of being raped, beaten, shot, and stabbed have just jumped considerably as well.

Men have it particularly bad here in Canada, with the numbers being on par or worse than those seen in the U.S. Still though, we hear nothing but a shrill siren song about how bad women have it – after all, they only earn 75 cents for every dollar that men do: getting shot, disarming bombs, digging deep beneath the earth, working longer hours in more stressful environments, damaging their bodies on a daily basis. Right… First of all the statistic is fabricated: All women and men working the same jobs, get paid the same money by LAW. Secondly, this statistic is much manipulated by feminist propagandists, does not take into account a variety of social and work factors and is blatantly dishonest. In fact, the falsification of victim hood, by feminist statistical manipulators, is what has led to so many boys and men failing out of the educational system.

Now let's look at how poorly these poor women have it at some Canadian Universities shall we:

Where the girls are: in medicine, law, dentistry ...
Here's the enrolment breakdown showing the percentage of females,
by faculty or department,
at McGill University and
Universite de Montreal:

At McGill University
Medicine 60.6 %
Law 53.6 %
Dentistry 54.6 %
Architecture 66.9 %
Science 52.3 %
Agriculture &
Environmental Science 68.4 %
Commerce 52.9%
Education 78.9 %
Arts & Science 70.5 %
Social work 86.1%
Nursing 96.7%
Occupational therapy 89.6 %

At Universite de Montreal
Medicine 71 %
Law 62.9 %
Dentistry 64 %
Veterinary science 72 %
Optometry 77.9 %
Pharmacy 70 %
Science 78.8 %
Nursing 87.5 %
Management 56 %
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL

(Above from:
PEGGY CURRAN, The Montreal Gazette
Published: Sunday, February 04, 2007)

Interestingly, despite glaring statistics indicating that men and boys have been absolutely abandoned by educational institutions at all levels in the past 30 years of feminization, the main concern continues to be, you guessed it, women. In fact, the main concern raised by a number of publications has been, "where will these poor women find suitable men to marry?" While this reflects strongly in our abysmally low birthrates, it should NOT be the major concern! There should be a concerted effort to balance the educational playing field before society collapses around our ears, but instead, oh woes women. Here's a couple of quick examples:

Experts have also observed that smart women are struggling to find common ground with members of the opposite sex.

There will soon be a large collective of uneducated, low-paid men who don't have any friends, and are unmarried and alone - as well as uninteresting for women looking for a relationship." (Above- Swedish women to overtake stupid men – The Local, December 20, 2006)

and…

Not only are the problems of college males being minimized in some quarters, but also much of the discussion of the lack of males in college surrounds the destructive impact it may have upon females. For example, an ABC.com report on the subject gloats "No More Big Man on Campus?" while declaring that the "College Gender Gap Could Mean Women Lose Mating Game" and asking "Must Women Go Slummin'?" Canadian journalist Lysiane Gagnon laments in the Globe and Mail that "the next generation of Quebec women might face a difficult love life...in a few years the province will be filled with high-paid, ambitious, professional women. Across the dance floor will be a large group of losers -- uneducated men stuck in small, low-paying jobs."
Above- Mysterious Decline-Where Are the Men on Campus?
(National Post, Mysterious Decline – Where Are the Men on Campus? April 29, 2003, by Philip W. Cook and Glenn Sacks)

Feeling as though the gender equality pendulum has swung around and hit men squarely in the gonad heights? Then you're not alone. For commentary that bites back at a lying, deceitful, manipulative and deranged feminized media, tune into the Honor Network. We're not just growing angry, we're just plain growing.

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femtique

Wow, you are so misinformed about the big picture. Go and take some courses in history. Better yet, ask yourself how many women are in congress? Or even better, go and look up how much women make on average compared to men. LOL.

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Reply#1 - Mon May 7, 2007 12:21 PM EDT
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TheSharpenedPen

Tell you what. I'll keep posting the truth, and you keep replying with tired rhetoric with no basis in fact. Women earn more than men when occupation, hours, and working conditions are taken into account. Women working in the same occupation, the same number of hours and under the same conditions earn more. Women earn less than men when they choose part-time work, less dangerous work, and to work fewer hours to meet family demands.

Women in congress and in government in general will always be fewer in number where fairness is applied because women simply to not gravitate to these positions. Certain things are in the genes and many feminists, like yourself, need to come to grips with that.

    Reply#2 - Sat Sep 1, 2007 4:01 PM EDT
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    Engineering is an area which saw year after year growth for women until a peak was reached that even quotas and program 're-engineering' couldn't seem to overcome. That is because male and female brains are simply put - different. Some universities, like Montreal's Polytechnique which saw a lone gunman taking the lives of innocent women, whom he believed had displaced him via quotas, do in fact have quotas in place. These quotas, however, for all the misgivings they create, cannot change the fact that men and women are different and that expectations of 50:50 in every field, at every level and at all times, cross over from unreasonable into the realm of clearly insane.

    http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52315

    The above source discusses, in scientific terms, some rather stark and fundamental differences between male and female brains. These differences are painfully obvious to most young children, but we as adults need to get passed decades of ideology to see it.

    Exerpt:

    "Brain imaging technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans demonstrate these differences, says Gurian, who has relied on the work of a variety of neuroscientists and biologists in writing What Could He Be Thinking? These scans can show how and where the brain functions during activities. The typically "male" brain, for example, devotes much more brain area to spatial skills -- things like mechanical design, manipulation of physical objects, and abstraction. With so much brain area devoted to spatials, male brains usually have less area for word use and word production.

    There are a number of other differences, and some of them aren't just structural, but chemical. The male brain usually produces less of two powerful chemicals, serotonin and oxytocin, than the female brain does. Serotonin tends to calm us down, while oxytocin may be related to bonding behaviors."

      Reply#4 - Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:42 PM EST
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      I always quote my sources oth.

        Reply#5 - Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:57 AM EST
        Ahodge-198963

        I understand that this article is meant to focus on unfairness with respect to males, but the education system in America is leaving everyone behind. Every child has a different learning style no matter their gender. If there was not so much focus in our culture on the "battle of the sexes" the us vs them mentality would not be causing this supposed harm. Btw, the bureaucracy that governs the public school system grossly under represents women. Odd.

          Reply#6 - Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:14 PM EST
          TheSharpenedPen

          I don't find it odd that those in charge, or holding a variety of leadership positions happen to be male, when the male brain is specifically geared to this kind of activity. Women make up higher percentages only when the issue is forced via government quotas and decree.

          The us versus them mentality is feminism's creation. Our educational systems have for decades focused on the learning needs of young girls to the exclusion of young boys. Now girls are doing better in mathematics and science, while boys are flunking out in all areas. Coincidence? Hardly. Remove tests, focus on assignments and group work and hand out projects and essays? With the competition element of education safely removed, boys can be safely removed as well.

          It is beyond ludicrous to imagine how writing an essay on famous mathematicians grants anyone higher math skills and yet this is the kind of thing that is taking place in classrooms around the globe. Clearly, this does not recognize the unique strengths of boys, and works to dumb down the educational experience in the very areas that men and boys would traditionally excel. I wish I were kidding. Math essays.

            Reply#7 - Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:15 AM EST
            Ahodge-198963

            "I don't find it odd that those in charge, or holding a variety of leadership positions happen to be male, when the male brain is specifically geared to this kind of activity." <--- False

            Women dominate speech and interpersonal communication. Some of the most successful economies in the world are represented by women headed parliaments. (Norway, Switzerland) Men in our culture are told that they can gravitate to these positions and so have an advantage there. Women, in the bible belt especially, are told to be educated house wives.

            Where the "us vs. them" mentality originated is not important. It is thriving in our culture.

            Also are these statistics applied only to public education? In every public school I attended children were separated based on math and writing skill tests. I was in the highest math class every year and found that there were few females. As a female engineering student I see even fewer in my Calc III class. Also the education system is not "dumbed down" to help women excel....remember the no child left behind act? I find this comment insulting.

              Reply#8 - Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:42 PM EST
              TheSharpenedPen

              If the comment applies to you, then you should find it insulting. Absolutely mathematics have been dumbed down for young girls and women - you noticeably did not address this point. Why are children being asked to write essays in math class? What is the relevancy? I know, for example in highschool calculus here in Canada, that essays have been made a part of the curriculum and I would like to know why, and how this could be related to anything other than catering to young girls.

              Furthermore, you neglect to mention any of the points I made in the above article regarding the many institutionalized changes which have been made solely for the benefit of girls and young women, including a marked departure from tests and exams. You neglect to address the abysmal performance of young boys in school since these gendered policies have been implemented, and likewise the disappearence of young men at colleges and universities.

              Your only concern seems to be that women are not enrolling in numbers in programs like engineering, while ignoring the disappearence again of men in law and medicine. It's as though for you and members of the government, there is only one gender and that gender is decidedly female.

              The educational system has been very much "dumbed down" in the areas of math and science, and the children are paying a price. I remember taking grade 11 advanced math at my highschool and being told that due to modifications to the math program for the benefit of girls, that the class would be conducted in semi-circles. The idea was that girls learned better in groups, and thus we were assembled into them in order to do our math work. The geeks of the class, like myself, who actually wanted to work on their math, were constantly interrupted with inane questions and chit chat conversations. Did anyone ever once consider how boys best learn? No.

              Women want equality? That's great because so do I. In order to have it though, women need to surrender a vast array of special handouts and privileges and realize that 50% in everything translates to unequal. We are not the same, as brain testing has revealed. Men and women have unique strengths and weaknesses. I'll say it again because it is so fundamental, men and women are different so it is wrong for us to expect that we will excel in all things equally. It is patently unequal to force equal outcomes from unequal beginnings.

              "I don't find it odd that those in charge, or holding a variety of leadership positions happen to be male, when the male brain is specifically geared to this kind of activity." <--- True
              http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52315

                Reply#9 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:04 PM EST
                TheSharpenedPen

                When will come the great rallying call from feminists to radically alter the nursing profession I wonder which has stood for almost a century at upwards of 95% female? Meanwhile in this same period, women jumped from 5% of medicine to 60%+. Nursing pays well. I mean if we are all the same and all equal, and if indeed we care to make all professions diverse, then where are the men? Where are the quotas and set asides for men? Oh, no no. That would be wrong! Right, and it's just as wrong when the equation works the other way, only when that happens, we hear a deafening cry of silence.

                Satuurn-Saab-Isuzu developed a bursary for nursing students - guess who was inelligible for it? 'Male' nursing students.

                Oh the hypocricy just gets thicker all the time.

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                Reply#10 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:17 PM EST
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