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The Truth about Boys: They read less and skip pages
- chinese_dan 10y ago"A lot of people will argue that boys are much less likely to read story books – fiction – than girls and that’s one reason why girls are better than boys." This article is glistening with sexism. “There is a need to feed back to boys what is going on here. Boys may be assuming, ‘Oh, I like to read nonfiction. Oh, I like to read magazines. Oh, I like websites or the instructions to video games’. But this study shows that they aren’t any better at that than they are at reading fiction.” More and more sexism, I see. What boys are assuming this? This article sheds some light on the subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-do/380318/ http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-gir... These days, school revolves around the strengths of girls, not boys. We have higher reading levels with girls and hiring college graduation rates. https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/leaving-boys-behind-public-high-school-graduation-rates-5829.html https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/leaving-boys-behind... Nobody cares, which tells me many of these movements aren't about equality, but about petty retribution and a power grab for small, authoritarian groups.
- dudul 10y agoGreat, so are we gonna put together special programs to help boys? Are we gonna start boy-only reading groups? Is the White House gonna get involved to close this gap? Are we gonna start ridiculous twitter hashtags? I'm not holding my breath...