Yes, Patriarchy Is Dead; the Feminists Prove It

[thucythucy]

56. So it's the "splashing sounds"

of women making gains that has you bothered?

Again, according to the link to which you directed me, male enrollment at college is at an all time high in terms of numbers, and the overall percentage of men enrolling in college has not declined. It's the fact that women, after centuries of being excluded from education, are now roaring ahead--at least in the west--that has you discombobulated. That, evidently, and nothing else. The fact that a man today has as much chance of getting into college as his grandfather--a statement you've repeated now at least twice--seems much less ominous when you understand that his grandfather had a pretty good chance of getting into college in the 1950s and 1960s, especially if he was white, what with the GI Bill, state scholarships--not to mention the incentive of a draft deferrment, while women by and large had substantially fewer opportunities to gain a higher education--often none at all--unless they wanted to be a teacher or a nurse.

Meanwhile, in some parts of the world, a girl advocating basic literacy for other girls still risks getting a bullet in the head.

That's a sound many of us find more distracting than the pain of men who--what?--are being denied opportunity because women are now getting into college in higher numbers? Really, I still can't see any "crisis" here, or any reason why President Obama should be criticized for citing this as a great achievement.

Just as I can't see why a woman caught up in the nationalism of 1914 should be called out for her "hypocrisy" when the male rulers of the time were sending millions to their deaths.

I think we've reached an impasse here. But it's been an interesting conversation.

Best wishes.