She's Come A Long Ways, Baby: Questions about Female Domination and Societal Evolution

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The disillusion of boys begins early, when energetic young boys have a hard time sitting still like their female classmates and quickly are branded "discipline problems." As they mature, those who don't have male role models at home (a scenario growing more commonplace because of rising divorces and single parenthood) are unlikely to get them at school. Only 23 percent of public schoolteachers are men.

By the time SAT and ACT registration deadlines roll around, few males have made it far enough to even consider taking the exams. When you see the aspirations of males and females at an earlier age, they're high, so something happens between the time they have those aspirations and the time they graduate.

Boys still do better on the SAT. It's the war on boys. They aren't being taught to understand the importance of college anymore.

A. Perhaps there are some feminists who have knowingly or unknowingly declared a war on boys. However, what we are seeing in society is not the result of a calculated and diabolical plan by feminists to dumb down the male population so women can succeed. In the early years of the feminist movement, there was the thought that girls needed to be given certain advantages and preferences so they could make up ground due to being denied equal access and equal educational opportunities for generations. It was more of an effort to level the playing field than it was the declaration of a war on boys.