No one cares for your facts here. We are Faux News watchers and follow diaperdon's tweets. Your post was too factual and too long. Go away. This is not a debate. I am right. you are wrong. Always and forever. |
Sure, why not. As long as the dads themselves are not angry White males, right? This is like telling Jim Bob who is going at with his wife like rabbits, telling young Josh not to molest his sisters or touch his weenie. It is all f'ed up, you know? |
PP: I "lost" you at the point where you started using your own words and assumptions instead of mine. I never used the word "owed" or the word "penalized". I asked the OP for data to support the assertions that the OP presented. I did use an arbitrary length of time: "the last 100 years". Pick another arbitrary length of time if it suits you better. It's important to me to point out that I attended schools and lived in areas that were historically segregated and legally segregated in DC when my parents bought their first house. I was, indeed, alive to be wronged by legal segregation, although, again, that's not a point that I need to make here. So, again, the OP made some assertions without bothering to support them with data. I'll keep reading through today's post to see if the OP has come back with anything substantive. |
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As a white male, I'm more than willing to sit down and take my talking to. It's hundreds of years overdue. I mean that.
What I do get upset about is certain behaviors I see in the school system. And it could be as minor as all the teachers getting together to wear "Girls Rule" shirts (one even worse the shirt that "Boys Drool)" Or when my son was running for a position in the government, and his female classmate won, his teacher cheered and "said oh yay, I was hoping a girl would win." Keep in mind, that this was after the current crop of school government didnt have any boys in it all. There are many little micro-examples of boys feeling marginalized in school, and I have many many more, and we're seeing the long term results of that already in education, with fewer boys pursuing higher education |
+1. Also, China's "leadership" may as well be Country Band Jamboree. They produce chips well. Manufacturing is in China (it might be highly skilled manufacturing) but you effectively have a bunch of grunts (or, if you want cheap poorly made things, you go to, China). Cogs in the machine of the international landscape China is begging to be a part of. You know who else is a cog (African countries for their minerals, and natural resources - which people have been pillaging for centuries). I'm not arguing China doesn't "lead the way" in certain spaces, just that it can only get there by cheating and stealing. Any country is capable of anything, however, China has consistently shown cultural or institutional values that don't align with that. Hence why so many of the state-sponsored companies are going bankrupt or need bailouts It's why Japan is the most innovative East Asian country: Laptop, Camera, 3D printing, Emoji, Anime, VHS, Jet Ski, etc. |
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Hold my beer
- Black male |
While I see your point, and I don't think teachers should be saying those things or wearing those shirts (!), you have to realize that feeling upset at what you correctly called microaggressions feel kind of petty compared to some of the actual and systemic racism and sexism that women and people of color have experienced. |
Something to think about: Traditionally/ historically large numbers of white men made decent incomes without having college degrees, and many, if not most colleges white males as the majority of their students. When you say "fewer boys pursuing higher education", I'd appreciate it if you'd indicate the compared-to-what part. One of the things that's in the mix here is that a larger and larger proportion of students are attending college in the first place. I don't have data handy, but the percentage of white males who attend and/or who graduate from college now is probably much higher than it was at any point (with the possible exception of during the Vietnam war draft.). What I'm trying to say is that instead of looking at the percentage of college students who are white males attending college, we need to also look at the percentage of white males in the population who attend /graduate from college. We might very well find that the population percentage has continued to increase for white males. I'm making these numbers up, but: Let's say that in 1950, 95% of the students attending Dartmouth may have been white males, vs 60 percent today. At the same time, maybe 20% of white males in the US attended college, vs 50% today. And even with this, the absolute number of white males attending Dartmouth today could exceed the number of white males attending in 1950 -- if the class size had increased. I apologize for being pedantic, but it matters to be somewhat clear on the details -- so that we're all addressing the same issues. A critical issue though perhaps should be supporting all students and all citizens in ways that support their/our potential. As a country, we don't prioritize this. Instead our tax dollars have benefited corporations and the military much more than it has the well-being of our people. I guess it's too much to hope that we could all rise together? |
Disagree strongly. Treating 10 year olds of any description as though they are underserving or second class citizens is ENTIRELY wrong. |
DP It is wrong. It is also wrong when it happens to POC children and girl children, and those microaggressions are just as wrong, as well as more common. So a lot of kids are getting shafted. Doesn't mean your son was MORE shafted. |
As an African American women, I feel the impact of racism every damn day and you're complaining about a t-shirt. |
Agree - it is wrong, and also not uncommon in DS experience here in FFX. Just off top of my head: - our daughter loved Heart & Soul (and Girls on the Run before that). But there was no running program for boys. Or coed. -ES offers special Coding for Girls class. - NSO program to Kennedy Center featured a program: Girl Power! (Yep - only female symphony members telling the whole class one side of things) - Boy Scouts & Cubs are now Co-ed, while Girl Scouts is still girls only (no sign of that changing). And these are just the things personally affecting one family’s son. You can’t deny the facts here; we can argue about the merits or lack thereof. |
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/former-houston-captain-vigilante-voter-fraud-incident/index.html
America has to stop this crazy behavior. |
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omg what would they do if they actually were really systematically oppressed? How would they feel if they could not change the color of their skin? How would they feel if they were told constantly from birth that they are a threat, will misbehave in school, will not amount to much of anything, will have a cell with their name on it when they grow older or get gunned down by the cops, would not be a great Dad, have a good job, go to college, not own a home, have a bunch of "Baby Momma's", be a pimp or a player, be homeless, kill themselves, live in a hood, and be a scary person once they pass the age of 10? Because, that is what I deal with as the mother of two black sons. Your husband can trade places with my black husband. I am sure he will like getting pulled over every week, some times multiple times, and be asked where he is going, referred to as boy, homeboy or partner by a cop. I am sure he would love not getting seated at a nice restaurant, ignored when buying a car, and steered when buying a home. Please! I will not cater to this nonsense of an angry white male.
Signed a very angry black woman |
Signed, minority woman. Very concerned about the boy thing. |