Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well. So, it’s been just over a year since
that fateful Gillette ad was released; that rather interesting bit of
short cinema that accused its target market of being afflicted with
the sin of toxic masculinity. This was, of course, done under the guise
of caring for men and their wellbeing, which seems to be the new
direction feminists have taken.
It's a very insidious move in the culture war. Fourth wave feminist
demagogues have realised that their take no prisoners approach is
actually turning people off, so they’ve started to disguise their
bigotry with a more, dare I say it, maternal approach. And speaking
of maternal, the Gillette ad had plenty of that quality.
Images of young boys with anxious faces were front and centre,
looking at their mothers and fathers with doe-eyed innocence,
beseeching these adult figures for guidance. This was applauded by
feminists everywhere, because after all, so many of them have sons,
and they would hate to see their sweet little boy corrupted by hostile
societal forces beyond his control.
You’d think from this commentary that feminists really do care about
little boys, but in reality, they’re just using it as an excuse to
emasculate men right from the get go. If they really, really cared
about the wellbeing of boys, they wouldn’t be using them as
weapons in the culture war. They would be focussing on the nasty
little fact that boys are falling behind girls in education all across the
developed world.
From pre-school to university, boys and young men are lagging. It’s a
reasonably well-known fact that more women than men go to
university, and have done so for some time.
According to the OECD, 56% of university students worldwide are
women. In Australia, that number is 58.4%. However, what people
don’t seem to realise is that boys are falling behind girls not just at
university, but at every level of their schooling.
According to a study by the OECD, boys are less likely than girls to do
homework and to read for enjoyment, and more likely to play
computer games and spent time online. They were also more likely
to have negative attitudes towards school, and arrive late. As such,
and not surprisingly, by the time kids are 15, girls are, on average, a
year ahead of their male peers in reading aptitude.
When it comes to final school exams in developed countries, girl
graduates outperform boy graduates in all fields except for maths
and science subjects. Therefore, more women apply for university,
and more women graduate. Men, on the other hand, are more likely
to drop out of university and high school. They are also more likely to
be suspended or expelled.
This lag in results starts very early on. Biologically, boys mature
slower than girls. According to Professor Gijsbert Stoet, a
psychologist who specialises in neuroscience and educational
research at Essex University, boys’ and girls’ brains develop at
different speeds, which includes slower language development for
boys.
This slower language development means they score lower in
reading than girls. They do, however, outdo girls in numeracy and
maths on average all the way through their schooling, which explains
why at university they tend to dominate STEM fields.
However, this lag in reading and language skills can cause significant
confidence problems for boys early on. After all, when you’re just
starting school, communication is everything, and maths and science
aren’t quite so fancy and prominent as they are later on. As such,
boys have already been turned off school from kindergarten,
because they have a harder time keeping up.
This, needless to say, does not set boys up well for the rest of their
school lives, which is why by the time people realise less men than
women are heading to university, it’s too late to start actively
recruiting them. You lost them long ago.
Not that anybody really cares though; I mean, affirmative action for
men on campus? Are you kidding me? If anything, the feminists
running academia want less men going to university.
So, what are the specifics of this general lag? Well, let’s use Canada
as an example. According to Statistics Canada, a lot of these
differences in school performance can be put down to innate
differences between girls and boys. As relayed in the National
Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth; from the moment they’re
born, boys seem to face more challenges.
They are more likely to be categorized as having activity limitations
than girls. They also lag behind girls developmentally in their early
years. For example, from birth to three years old, only 12% of boys
are categorized as having advanced motor and social development.
This is compared to 21% of girls.
Also, on average, five-year-old boys score 97.2 on a test of copying
and symbol use, compared with 104.3 for girls. Even things like
independence in dressing themselves boys tend to be behind on,
with 78% of five-year-old boys displaying independence in dressing,
compared to 87% of girls.
Boys also have more behavioural problems than girls, Five-year-old
boys display less attention than girls, and 16% of 4 to 11-year-old
boys display aggressive behaviour, as opposed to 9% of girls. Also,
14% of 4 to 11-year-old boys display hyperactivity, compared with
only 6% of girls.
As such, by the age of 15, girls are outperforming boys in
standardized tests, and are eclipsing them in their overall school
results. The same is true in the UK, where girls outperform boys at
almost every level of schooling.
This opens less doors for boys at a tertiary level. For example, in
2018 in the UK, 38 per cent of female school-leavers went to
university, as opposed to 28 per cent of males, which is a gap that
has widened significantly over the last decade.
Other reasons put forward to explain why boys lag behind are social
factors. Parenting is a big one; parents can often interpret the more
rambunctious nature of their sons as a lack of interest in quiet
activities, so will spend more time reading to and playing with their
daughters, which can set boys back in terms of reading and language
skills.
Another is that preferred classroom etiquette, so, quiet, focussed
students who listen to leaders and learn independently, is much
more suited to girl-typical behaviour. Because boys mature slower,
and start school with, on average, a lag in reading and language
skills, plus a tad more testosterone, they are much more inclined to
be discouraged and bored, and therefore have trouble
concentrating.
This can lead to bad behaviour, which in turn leads to class
disruption and a trip to the principal’s office. Not because the little
boy is particularly naughty, or lazy, or bad, but because the
environment he is forced to learn in simply does not suit him.
Then, of course, there is that trendy tendency to put this lack of
interest in school down to masculinity. That is, boys apparently see
doing well in school as more of a girl thing, and don’t want to be
mocked for being swots or teacher’s pets. As such, they feel like they
need to live up to a rebellious stereotype where trying is frowned
upon and status is everything.
I personally do not agree. You can’t just fob all male-typical negative
behaviour onto the very abstract concept of masculinity or societal
pressures. Slacking off and sticking it to authority figures is the
opposite of masculine.
Masculinity is defined by hard work, stoicism, and respect for those
who are trying to help you. It is not defined by intimidating your
classmates, distressing your parents and siblings, and disrespecting
your usually female teachers.
This social issue has nothing to with masculinity, and everything to
do with the fact that in many cases, boys are, quite simply, too cool
for school. They don’t like school. It doesn’t suit them. From very
early on they lack key communication skills that help children gain
confidence in the classroom, and since nobody pays any attention to
this, of course they develop more negative attitudes to school than
girls do. Of course they don’t want to try. Of course they do less
homework.
That’s not to say girls necessarily have a happier time at school than
boys, quite the contrary. However, girls are inclined, whether by
their nature or how they are socialised, to sit quietly, pay attention,
and communicate better than boys do. They embody much more
easily the archetype of the good student, hence the better results.
Considering all of this, why isn’t there an international stink? After
all, there’s always mention of girls in third world countries being
denied schooling. So why isn’t this crisis in boys’ education in the
West made a fuss of? This isn’t a new thing; boys have been lagging
behind girls in school way back to the mid twentieth century, with
not
much improvement.
Well, the most obvious reason nowadays is that it’s not trendy to
care about boys and men. Particularly since a lot of the boys doing
the worst in classrooms are white and working class. The Marxist
feminist left that controls the education system has no time for
white men, or white boys, and especially not the working class.
They think men are the beneficiaries of an unearned white male
privilege, and are possessed by a demon called toxic masculinity.
Therefore, according to feminist academics, white men must be
routinely subjugated as a sort of sick vengeance for a patriarchal
past.
Even poor white men receive no sympathy from the regressive
leftists in academia. Remember, the left, for all their talk of sticking
up for the poor and the meek against the wealthy capitalist man, has
never actually found the poor very palatable. They just hate the rich.
Big difference.
Ultimately, the reason there is so little focus on boys school
education, and so so sooooo much attention lavished on girls, is
because while boys do worse at school, they do perceivably better in
the work force. On average, they make more money than women do,
even though less of them graduate universities.
This is because the boys who do go to university tend to gravitate
towards STEM subjects, which open doors to extremely highly paid
fields of work. Girls, on the other hand, gravitate towards people-
focussed degrees and careers, most typically things like nursing and
teaching, but also HR, event management, public relations, the arts,
that sort of stuff.
As the broad psychology goes; women are interested in people, and
men are interested in things. Also, the inevitable biological reality is
that women will generally pause or halt their careers in their late 20s
and 30s in order to have children. Whereas men, who don’t on
average take the same time off, continue to work, advance, and
earn.
Therefore, the vast majority of discussions of gender equality focus
on the much-misrepresented gender pay gap. B ROLL GOD NO/NO
Feminist leaders claim that because men on average earn more than
women, they are therefore innately privileged, so women need all
the help and empowerment they can get. This is ridiculous. This
perception of men as somehow privileged because they happen to
be the highest earners is based on the apex fallacy.
That is; the perception that the experience of those at the top, or
apex, of a group, reflects the experiences of all members of that
group. This apex fallacy of male experience can be
seen, funnily enough, in the final exam results of students in Australia.
In Victoria and New
South Wales in 2019, the average final score, or ATAR of girls was a
couple of percentage points higher than boys.
However, the majority of the students who got a perfect score of
99.95, which is the highest ATAR you can get, were boys. Most likely
because they dominate maths and science subjects, which are scaled
up in terms of marks.
So, while at first glance it seems that boys are doing very well in
education because they occupy most of the top scores, your average
male student is lagging behind. But, because it’s boys, nobody seems
to care, or even notice. This is a metaphor for life; while men are the
top earners, that does not even begin to cover the experiences of all
men.
Just because a small percentage of men are doing really really well,
does not mean all men are doing the same. We have been seeing the
results of boys lagging behind girls in education for decades. Men
are, and have been for some time, the majority of the homeless, the
majority of the alcohol and drug addicted, and the majority of those
who make the decision to end their lives prematurely.
They do all the worst jobs in the most dangerous conditions, they are
more likely to be perpetrators and victims of gun violence, and they
make up over 90% of prisoners. They are also vastly more likely to be
mass shooters, and vastly more likely to be recruited into certain
extremist groups, the names of which I can’t mention in this video or
YouTube will ping me, but I’m sure you get what I mean.
So, while sure, some men are doing great financially, your average
Joe is kinda struggling. And the struggle doesn’t start when they hit
the job market, it starts years and years earlier, when they are
toddlers. Now, if it were Western women who were lagging in this
way, we would not hear the end of it. But since it’s boys…silence.
There is not a peep from any human rights organisations, barely a
peep from anyone in government, and even if they do say something
about it, it’s of no interest to anyone in the mainstream media,
because hey, boys grow into men, and men are the privileged
oppressor class, so they can’t really complain, can they?
If we continue to ignore the problems boys face in school, the
situation of men and boys will continue to deteriorate, and I don’t
know what kind of consequence that will lead to. Only that it will not
be good. To say the least.
We have to stop thinking of men as one giant group of privileged
people. That is not the case at all. And all those feminists who
claimed to care about boys when that infamous Gillette ad reared its
ugly head should be roundly ashamed of themselves for their
hypocrisy, lack of compassion, and willful ignorance.