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This article ("The Boy Crisis (Again)") has got me thinking, and thinking things I'd like to discuss.

First of all: rather than "The Boy Crisis", can we say "The Education Crisis"? FFS, a failing education system helps NO ONE. (By this I mean "not Liss", because I know she says it from the viewpoint of irony. I mean the original author / commenters / etc.)

Second: the SATs ARE bullshit. And this is from someone who scored a 1570/1600 on them.

Third, and longest: I can sum this article up basically by being like "OMFG NOOOOO, BOYS NOW HAVE TO WORK HARD TOO." And it - that thought - I've never actually put this together like this before, but as a girl going into science and engineering, I was told - it was implied - I knew I'd have to work FUCK-HARD to get anywhere I wanted to. I've been "trying" for a while, doing more than "passing", more than "meets", because that was the way I had to "prove myself."

And now boys are getting the same message?

*tiniest violin*

Comments

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

"Won't someone please think of the poor, poor boys?"

Oh, right, it's all we ever think about already. Because nothing is a crisis until it's affecting the boys.

I agree; the crisis is not with "boys", it's with education in the USA, and with a culture that doesn't value education. And I get suspicious, too, because history has shown, over and over, that once any particular activity or arena becomes more associated with women, it becomes devalued. Teaching as a profession, for one particularly relevant example.