War Being Waged Against Boys Analysis

The article titled "Girls Against Boys," published in the 30 January issue of The Nation magazine by author Katha Pollitt, brings to light pressing issues of gender discrimination and how this nation's education system has changed over the past forty years but still isn't up to par with where it needs to be with issues of gender equality. Pollitt exposes the views of conservatives toward feminism in the school systems of today. This article describes how changes in society are taking place, and what the future may hold for men and women in the world of employment and education.

Historically boys were top of the class. Today that is no longer the case. A recent article in The Economist discusses a 2009 study by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) that examined how 15-year-old boys and girls performed in reading, mathematics and science. They found that girls are performing better than their male classmates. This gender gap is worldwide. Girls score higher than boys on tests measuring reading ability in every country in the world (Loveless).

There are multiple reasons why Kelley King, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens are on the pro side. For one reason, they believe that the differences exist due to boys being more interactive with certain topics and methods that don’t usually interest girls or vice versa. For example, the Wamsley Elementary School in Rifle, Colorado has both boy and girl students. However, in the past, the girl students over accomplished the boy students due to the school staff being more experienced in understanding how to teach girls than understanding how to teach boys. So, the school focused on teaching the boys with their own learning styles that are also girl friendly such as online courses. The result of this was successful as boys became more accomplished than they were from before. (Pages 147 – 148).

Case studies is the main theme for Michael's argument as he did use multiple studies to prove a point or show percentages of ratios about men and women in education . Throughout this article, emotional struggles and feeling of discrimination for boys was shown many times, this gives Michael great support for his views on the war against boys. In the article, feminism was thought to be the cause of boys not being successful. Feminist had ideas and had goals to help future generations of

If there has been one quality that I have retained all my life it would be my drive. I have always been driven to succeed and move forward. From an early age I knew I wanted to achieve two things: travel the world and become a lawyer. My passion for law came from an experience I had at Boy’s State and my dreams of travel came from growing up in a secluded mountain town.

An ever changing, yet common issue, in today's generation revolves around how society views gender. The general consensus dictates that gender, as a whole, is a spectrum, rather than a standard set for each individual male and female to follow throughout everyday life. However, there are those individuals who wish to remain reluctant in changing their view of society. Some believe it is better to allow the education system to be segregated by gender, in order to provide more resources to both girls and boys. One person in favor of this public education reform is David Brooks, a neuroscientist who published the article titled “The Gender Gap at School.” A thorough analysis of the effects of literature on men and women, biological factors

By now, you've probably heard there's a "war against boys" in America. The latest heavily-hyped right-wing fusillade against feminism, led by Christina Hoff Sommers's new book of that title, claims that men are now the second sex and that boys--not girls--are the ones who are in serious trouble, the "victims" of "misguided" feminist efforts to protect and promote girls' development. At the same time, best-selling books by therapists, like William Pollack's Real Boys and Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson's Raising Cain, also sound the same tocsin, warning of alarming levels of depression and suicide among boys, and describing boys' interior lives as an emotionally barren

The article “Children On The Battlefield”by Marcie Schwartz describes the experiences of boys in the military during the Civil War. Boys under 18 signed up to fight in the war. Although they were underage, their parents, religious leaders, and schoolteachers supported their descions to enlist. Sometimes boys would lie about their ages or runned away and changed their names to enroll. When enlisted boys would become musicians,serve as powder boys,water carriers, ect. There were boys who would play music to use music to communicate orders during battle. Powder boys would follow rules to obtain their pay in position. Overtime they would become homesick. Young boys in the military had properly fitted uniforms,found it difficult to maintain

In this day and age it’s all about feminism and how women are in second place. When in fact, the feminist views are misguiding and causing a huge impact on the education systems that favors girls rather than boys. In “The War Against Boys,” Christina Hoff Sommers supports her belief that it’s the boys who need help, since their underachievement is worsening and continuing by the year.

Donna Laframboise and Stevie Cameron have written two very different articles on the topic of gender. Laframboise argues that today’s society treats boys worse than girls. Cameron argues that the poor treatment of women and the relatively high risk of physical danger has shown no improvement from when she was growing up to now. Both Laframboise and Cameron’s articles discuss gender, and the implications that it can have on a person’s life. Cameron displays the strength of her article by exclusively arguing her own point. Laframboise opts to utilize and disprove other’s statements about girls as her proof. Negating other arguments is only an effective tactic when an opposition exists. Arguing ‘who has it worse?’ does not help anyone, and in fact can be detrimental in cases like this. Both articles have their own strengths and weaknesses, but Laframboise hinders her article by prioritizing denying female struggle over substance.

Tara Culp-Ressler claims that raising children to adhere to strict gender roles is harmful to their health. In her article, she refers to a three month long study that was conducted on a group of young teenagers. The study observed their behaviors based on gender and the findings concluded that both genders exhibited potentially harmful behavior patterns; a large number of the boys in this experiment were violent with one another in an attempt to demonstrate their masculinity and they would often bury their emotional struggles. The girls felt pressure to live up to standards that had been set for them to be feminine, some even taking to restricting calories to stay thin because “real women are skinny.” Adding onto the stress already felt by adolescence, the teenagers in this study denied themselves of simple rights and pleasures; the girls didn’t want to participate in sports they liked because they were afraid of looking unattractive, and the boys refused to acknowledge most emotions if not seen as “manly,” also turning down any psychological help or a shoulder to lean on. Once the study ended, the teenagers were mostly on the same page when some said that they thought sticking to these gender roles was what they were supposed to do, even if they weren’t happy about it.

I watched a TedEd of the famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo titled "The Demise of Guys?". This talk was about how boys are falling behind the learning curve and are experiencing increased social shyness when it comes to male-female interaction. It somewhat relates to my topic on education bias so it was interesting to see how Zimbardo's data compared to what I had researched on my own about girls in the classroom. Zimbardo reported that male students are being diagnosed with learning/attention disabilities at growing rates and that they are dropping out of school at disproportionate rates in comparison to female students. Research also indicated that there is a steady increase of social awkwardness that inhibits males from having intimate relationships.

After the war, it's the ultimate step for his change, after is post stress, he forgive every japenese who where on the prison camps, but the Bird refused to met him, but Zamp forgive him anyway. Then, the only point of his life was to help others. His son sais in an interview : "it was a dark and rainning night, and the phone rang. It was a man who was living on the street next to ours and he said, there is a man on my roof trying to stop water coming in!" He also created "Victory Boys Camp" where juvenil delinquent and him would go hiking and do canoë to prouve them they don't have to steal or hurt people to feel accomplish and encourage them to finish their high

Overall, I thought the reading was interesting. I believe this is vital information one must know about themselves, the human body, and what the differences are. However, I really want to focus on, gender roles, and gender behaviors because most society thinks that forcing your kids to do “manly” things or “girly” things will make them more masculine or feminine. I am here to say that is not always true. According to an observation done on a group of 14 year olds in a three month period, this could be a health risk says thinkprogress.org. “ Raising children in societies that adhere to rigid gender roles with fixed ideas such as “masculine” and feminine,” can actually be detrimental to their physical and mental health.” I would have to agree

Males make a more dramatic part because they want to wage war because of their personalities being foils. The reason males want to wage war is because their mindset is to not wipe out the other family but to humiliate them with defeat. Basically men start a lot of the fights being men and not having much brain power or maturity. What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward! Tybalt is a trigger happy hatred filled anger bug. To tell us about what has happened in the last scene and what is to come kind of. In fair Verona is where it takes place telling us that it's in Italy. Verona is where it is and its in the first prologue. He included prologue to remind us what happened in