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In reply to the discussion: Why the Men's Rights Movement Is Garbage [View all]BainsBane
(57,771 posts)That boys lag behind when there are no legal impediments to girls? So you don't care about who is the best qualified? Boys should be given Affirmative Action based on historical privilege rather than historical discrimination?
Blacks outperform whites in the NBA. Is that the fault of African Americans? Do you we need Affirmative Action for uncoordinated white men? Or should we just go back to the good old days when lesser qualified men got all the jobs because women and people of color were not allowed entrance to schools and discrimination in hiring was legal?
Maybe, just maybe, parents should encourage their sons to study more? Yet the fact that girls perform better when laws don't keep them from competing is the fault of feminists? You know why girls do better? They work harder. They aren't more gifted than boys, but they don't grow up believing things should be handed to them simply for the coincidence of their chromosomes. There isn't a woman I was in grad school with that didn't work harder than the male members of our program. They read books twice, worried they didn't know enough, and studied extra hard, whereas men tended to read the intro and conclusion of a book and assume they knew it all. It served some of them well, while the women continued to doubt themselves. Women are raised to doubt themselves, which is why they work harder. I suspect that those boys underperformance in school will not hurt them as they mature and enter professional fields. Their confidence will help make up for it.