Q&A Forum - December 2014

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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.

I believe there is a 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.

It's been years since I read that book but if I remember correctly, "The War Against Boys" was written by former feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. She is an outspoken critic of the modern day feminist movement and she has written a number of books expressing her displeasure with feminism. I also have been known to be a critic of the modern feminist movement but I do not believe there is a so-called war on boys.