The Ongoing War on Boys

According to the Wall Street Journal fewer and fewer young men are opting for college. More and more of them are dropping out of the education world, going from high school straight to full time jobs.

The current ratio of male to female college students is something like 60% to 40%. The statistics do not tell us what the students are studying. Are male students concentrating on STEM subjects, while female students are hard at work learning woke indoctrination in the social sciences and the humanities? The article does not say.

Obviously, this poses a larger societal problem. Are these college educated females going to want to marry men who are high school grads? How much will they have in common? What will they talk about at the dinner table?

So, along with the bad news about college attendance we discover that more and more thirty-something women are having their first children on their own, without the benefit of marriage. 

A Wall Street Journal article sums up the bad news:

The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin, found that nonmarital childbearing has increased significantly among women of all educational levels over the past quarter-century. Yet the sharpest increase has been among women who hold a bachelor’s degree or more. About 24.5% of them ages 32 to 38 weren’t married when they had their first babies, according to surveys from 2017-2018. That is a sixfold increase from 1996, when the share was 4% for that group.

One might ask oneself how well these fatherless children are going to fare in life, but that would be somewhat unkind. We already know that they do not fare well.

Anyway, college administrators now believe that we need something like an affirmative action program for males. Seriously, all they ever think of is programs. They believe that boys are underperforming in school because they watch too much porn and play too many videogames.

And yet, they fail to remark another salient point, namely, that the school system is being run by feminist scolds who put down boys in order to favor girls. The American school system is an important front in the war against boys, and, would you believe, it is dumbing down boys in order to favor girls. 

I emphasized this point several years ago, by quoting some remarks by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. Link here. Surely, Lessing is not a misogynist, but she could see clearly what was happening in elementary schools in Great Britain.

For your edification, these remarks were printed in the Guardian in 2001. Amazingly, they are perfectly apt twenty years later:

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men.

"I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed," the 81-year-old Persian-born writer said yesterday.

"Great things have been achieved through feminism. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation.

"We have many wonderful, clever, powerful women everywhere, but what is happening to men? Why did this have to be at the cost of men?

"I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men.

You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."

Lessing said the teacher tried to "catch my eye, thinking I would approve of this rubbish".

She added: "This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing.

"It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests. 

 "Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

As I noted when I first presented this story, be careful what you wish for. Feminists have won some serious victories in their war against boys. The problem is, they have also suffered some serious defeats. These boys who decide to fight back are not likely going to be treating women well outside of the classroom. If these girls, once they become women, are looking for entangling alliances with men, they will quickly discover that the males in question are not at their same academic level. But they will also find an undercurrent of hostility toward women, not so much generated by the patriarchy, but by the feminist teachers who spend their time stoking antagonism between boys and girls.

And then they will figure out that they are bigger and stronger than these strong empowered women who have been harassing them in school for yo these many years.

At a time when the American left is up in arms about white supremacy and patriarchal oppression of women, the truth of everyday American life tells a rather different story. Boys, and especially white boys, have become an oppressed class. Apparently, the answer to bigotry is reverse bigotry.

Strong empowered feminist teachers have taken to using their strength and empowerment in the classroom to beat down boys, to make them pay for the sins of their fellow patriarchs.

We should not be surprised to discover that these men exit the educational world at the earliest opportunity. And we should not be surprised that they are unwilling to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in college learning how they and those who are like them are a scourge on women and the planet. Nor should we be surprised that said men are less interested in forming entangling alliances with self-important female college graduates who disrespect them. They will, however, be happy to hook up with them.

As I have often noted, this is not going to end well.