Why the lack of men majoring in humanities?

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Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

People who major in the humanities are truly educated, in ways that STEM majors are not.

Yes, if your son goes on to law school or business school or something else that produces an attractive income, he will have no problem attracting girls. Lots of them.

Love how we’re not even questioning the idea that men’s attractiveness should be tied to their earning power. I mean it’s not even a debate anymore. It really does put the whole “emotional labor” debate in perspective, doesn’t it.

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Anonymous wrote:I've had a son and daughter at good single sex schools. The all-boys school emphasized professionalism and career prospects. Many of its graduates selected engineering, CS, and econ as prospective majors.

For the all-women's school there was much more emphasis on self-discovery and self-care, not on professional skills. And it was a progressive women's high school.

I think we're still socializing our children of different genders very differently.

We're not "socializing" them this way. We are acknowledging their inherent differences. Which you obviously agree with, or you wouldn't have chosen single sex schools for both of them.

And there goes all of modern feminism, bobbing down the stream. We tried.

I sure wish I knew what this meant. Are you stating that you believe the goal of modern feminism was to recreate reality? If so, it was all a farce to begin with and THAT is why it is "bobbing down the stream."

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Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

People who major in the humanities are truly educated, in ways that STEM majors are not.

Yes, if your son goes on to law school or business school or something else that produces an attractive income, he will have no problem attracting girls. Lots of them.

Folks...if you freely admit that a humanities major needs to pursue another graduate degree in order to produce an attractive income...well, then you are answering OP's question as to why so few people (and even fewer men) are majoring in them.

Lost in this entire thread was OP saying that when looking at a HS instagram page a whopping 13 people in total plan to major in humanities. That's anywhere from maybe 2% to 10% of a graduating class.

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Anonymous wrote:I've had a son and daughter at good single sex schools. The all-boys school emphasized professionalism and career prospects. Many of its graduates selected engineering, CS, and econ as prospective majors.

For the all-women's school there was much more emphasis on self-discovery and self-care, not on professional skills. And it was a progressive women's high school.

I think we're still socializing our children of different genders very differently.

We're not "socializing" them this way. We are acknowledging their inherent differences. Which you obviously agree with, or you wouldn't have chosen single sex schools for both of them.

And there goes all of modern feminism, bobbing down the stream. We tried.

I sure wish I knew what this meant. Are you stating that you believe the goal of modern feminism was to recreate reality? If so, it was all a farce to begin with and THAT is why it is "bobbing down the stream."

Universities have been desperately trying to bring gender parity to the sciences. Some on this thread would have us believe that that quest is a fool’s errand, because of intrinsic differences. Larry Summers would certainly agree.

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Anonymous wrote:The idea men's thinking is not suited to the humanities is pretty easily dismissed by examining the entire history of the humanities.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

What? My degree is in the humanities. I make $275,000 a year working for Big Four accounting firm.

DEI positions will disappear soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Just looked through the ‘25 class decisions for a local school on Instagram. Of 13 humanities majors, only 2 are male. Anyone else see this? This must mean that men get a bump.

Or it might mean the ROI is bad

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Anonymous wrote:Pointing to examples of people with humanities degrees who are successful, and then generalizing from that, is about the level of argumentation I would expect from a humanities major. There are plenty of smokers who live to 90, maybe you should do that too.

Smoke or live to 90? Your poor, non-humanities writing makes your point unclear.

Oh thank you. Now maybe I can get a humanities major to explain to me what “pedantic” means.

No, but I _can_ tell you that you need to use a comma following the interjection ("Oh") in your sentence.

thank you im so greatfull for you fixing my grammer

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.

Math is not black and white at all.
-Mathematician

math is black and white in that the answer is either right or wrong. The answer is not subjective, like humanities.

This is only true in high school algebra class. Math is subjective at higher levels.

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Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

Sure, male lawyers find wives. You just need to spend more to get that law degree.

He’s not interested in law. Maybe academia.

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Degrees are too expensive these days to study something that doesn't prepare you for a specific job unless you've got family money. Don't be daft.

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Maybe AI will change this?

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As a few have mentioned, post-grad salary matters for men. They may be more competitive or want to more attractive to women (and one day be able to provide for a family). Yes, humanities majors can be successful but usually only at certain colleges or with connections.

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Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

He will benefit from a fantastic gender ratio in his humanities classes.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

You sound dumb but know a lot about Starbucks. Work there?