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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I decided to start a boys’ exercise and “empowerment” club at my child’s school that specifically excluded girls, heads would roll. And before you say boys don’t need empowerment and emotional support, check the latest high school dropout rates, college attendance rates, suicide rates, and think again. [/quote]

Won’t someone think of the boys?

/sarcasm[/quote]

DP again - look at the data. While yes the top is still dominated by men, men and boys are having worse and worse outcomes.

My DS is a very observant kid and has been asking since he was very young why girls can wear a shirt that says “girl power” but he cannot wear a shirt that says “boy power.” I have explained many times in various ways that this is a correction for real discrimination in the past, but it is hard for a child to really understand that.

Your kind of rhetoric is what leads boys to online places where they can actually talk about what they see and those places are not good …

So it is important to take what kids observe and say at face value instead of lecturing them like it is a Sarah Lawrence women’s studies class. They are children not adults. [/quote]

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