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Dec. 7th, 2010 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seventheThis 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*
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*
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Date: 2010-12-08 03:17 am (UTC)One does wonder why boys don't perform as well in schools. Because they've actually been taught that they shouldn't strive to do well? Because our society is both male-centric and education-phobic no matter how much it pretends otherwise, and therefore it's seen as "uncool" to be an academically-minded young man? (There does seem to be this thing about "jocks" and "nerds," after all...)
So the solution is actually to completely overthrow traditional gender roles? I know I've been an advocate of that for a good long time, but good luck making it actually happen.
Have you seen the Superbowl commercials recently?