Late News from the Gender Wars

Yes, indeed, here's some news from the gender wars.

First, a federal judge has decided that wearing skirts is sexist. Sort of. He has ruled that schools requiring girls to wear skirts are depriving said females of the equal protection of the law… because boys are not required to wear skirts. Presumably, girls who want to wear skirts will still be allowed to do so.

The New York Post reports:

But girls are clearly treated differently than boys at the kindergarten through 8th grade school in Leland, about 10 miles west of Wilmington, Howard ruled. That’s a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection requirements.

The guardians of three girls attending the school sued the school in 2016. They said the dress code forces girls to be colder in the winter and “forces them to pay constant attention to the positioning of their legs during class, distracting them from learning, and has led them to avoid certain activities altogether, such as climbing or playing sports during recess, all for fear of exposing their undergarments and being reprimanded by teachers or teased by boys,” the judge said in summarizing the plaintiffs’ arguments.

So, skirts are out. Because they are sexist. And also because, in principle, they are more modest than… say… leggings.

The skirt requirement is out on an edict issued by a judge. If you were wondering who is running the country, now you know.

And that there’s this. Today’s young people are having less sex than seems right and proper.

The New York Post has this story too:

Despite the explosion of hook-up apps and dating sites, the number of adult Americans who haven’t had sex in the last year reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a new study by the General Social Survey.

The record lack of action is the climax of a decades-long trend among an aging population and growing numbers of single people, said the group, which is part of the University of Chicago.

Millennials aren’t without blame.

The survey showed that nearly 25 percent of the people who went without sex were twenty-something men.

That’s 8 percent more than women of that age.

Those ages 18 to 29 who abstain more than doubled in the last decade, the study said.

When you put it all together you arrive at a conclusion offered by commenter “trigger warning” on this blog yesterday. He suggested young men do not find today’s angry young women to be very attractive, enticing and alluring. Putting up with harangues about toxic masculinity is not worth it. Better to go out and buy it on the open market.

Moreover, we must add, if women in college have substituted skin-tight leggings for skirts, they seem to be manifesting some anxiety over the fact that they are not attracting erotic attention. It’s one thing for a middle aged woman to feel invisible when she walks down the street. But, for a college girl, it must be the ultimate indignity… to feel unnoticed and unwanted by college boys whose hormones are completely out of control. 

It’s as good an explanation as any I have seen.