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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how nasty people are toward boys.  These are our sons and your future SIL's.[/quote]

Yes, it's depressing.  [/quote]

The responses here aren't nasty to boys.  They are trying to get people like you to get your heads out of your butts.

Boys are fine.  They still run the world.  Women are still getting the poop end of the stick.

You two really need to get a frickin grip.[/quote]

Dear lord, can you feminists really [b]not[/b] understand the difference between white boomer men, and young millennial and Gen Z boys?

Yeah, you go tell the young black men getting harassed by cops that they rule the world, or the white teen boy in Appalachia who was orphaned by the opioid epidemic who’s town is dying; that THEY rule the world.

Get out of your feminist UMC bubble.

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The first part of this "the difference between white boomer men, and young millennial and Gen Z boys" is a very good point.  I think older folks on this board are equating the success and privilege of a small percentage of older, boomer men with all males (old, middle aged and young) and assume that because those people are successful, then all males will be fine.  This education gap between girls and boys at all levels is a real issue and eventually it will work its way into the corporate / business / political world.  It's just a matter of time.  To put a point on this, people used to complain when boys outnumbered girls in college, but that has completely flipped such that girls now outnumber boys in college by greater percentages than boys previously outnumbered girls.  It's getting to the point where diversity initiatives in schools should actually be looking to help boys, but it's very hard to do so because historically that's not what diversity initiatives have done.  Whenever people start initiatives to help boys, it's shot down in a very similar manner to what's happening in this discussion forum and it's a byproduct of long-held assumptions rather than looking at the data.  Inequality is inequality regardless of the identity of the person who happens to be facing the inequality.  It's not good for anyone (boy or girl) if one side is dominant.[/quote]

Girls have been outperforming boys in schools since they have been allowed to compete. It hasn't changed workplace dynamics and there is no reason to expect that it will. [/quote]

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