Female Supremacy Articles - Page 21

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One bad mistake the administration made in trying to return Iraq to civilization, according to Kenneth Pollack, was to disband the Iraqi Army. Why? Because, says Pollack, a widely respected Middle East expert, the last thing you want to do is let loose in the land a bunch of armed men trained only in mayhem. Iraq, of course, has special problems, but there is a larger lesson here. Not just in places on the margins of the medieval, but even in America, men are a perennial and perhaps deepening problem. To be sure, men--like women--aren't all alike. They vary greatly in the degree of their aggressiveness, need to dominate, and so on. Still as the social scientists say, certain "central tendencies" characterize the sexes, and in recent weeks, both Business Week and CBS's 60 Minutes have featured stories on the mounting maladies of maleness. "From kindergarten to grad school," Business Week reports, girls now outperform boys in grades, admissions, student government, and extracurricular activities. "Women are rapidly closing the M.D. and Ph.D. gap and make up almost half of law students," the magazine says. Meanwhile, boys dominate in such dubious categories as remedial education, stimulant-drug prescriptions, and suicide.