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Is Your Son Glad to Be a Boy?

Is Your Child’s School Demeaning Boys in Favor of Girls?

If your son carried a camcorder with him all day while at school, you might be in for a rude awakening.

According to Dr. James Dobson, evidences of anti-masculine bias abound.

1. “At a Boston area elementary school, nobody objected when girls wore shirts emblazoned with ‘Girls Rule’ or when they taunted boys with a chant that goes, ‘Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge.’ But when boys donned shirts emblazoned with ‘Boys Are Good,’ there was a protest. One of the teachers protesting sported a button saying, ‘So many men, so little intelligence.’”

2. William Pollack states: “It sounds terrible to say, but coeducational public schools have become the most boy-unfriendly places on earth. It may still be a man’s world. But it certainly isn’t a boy’s world.”

3. “Christiana Hoff Sommers, the most passionate and effective defender of boys, echoed these concerns in her outstanding book The War against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. She says this is a bad time to be a boy in America because of the bias against them in our educational institutions.”

4. Thomas Sowell, respected professor of economics at Stanford University, has expressed these concerns: “Unknown to most parents, there are federally financed programs to prevent boys from acting the way boys have always acted before. The things done by those who have taken the role of changing boys range from forbidding them from running and jumping during recess to having them wear dresses and pretend to be girls or women in the classroom. [This] is accompanied by a barrage of propaganda prepared by radical feminists for nationwide distribution with the blessing — and the money — of the U.S. Department of Education.”

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On This Topic
Introduction
How the Mass Media Portray Men
Countering the Mass Media’s Portrayal of Men
Is Your Child’s School Demeaning Boys in Favor of Girls?
Countering Your School’s Favoritism of Girls
How Radical Feminism Harms Boys
Countering Radical Feminism’s Agenda


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