MorganSounds like someone hasn't heard of this One Cool Trick (lesbianism)
Dan SeitzI'm a cis man and I've been hearing masculinity is "in crisis" since I was eight. So far as I can tell the "crisis" is "I can't act like an asshole anymore."
Robert Mader@Dseitz @raphaelmorgan AFAICS that's unfortunately not what the data we have tells us. Boys falling behind ever more in education is something we should have started to address 30 years ago - it's only got worse since in most OECD countries. Gender gaps of any nature getting bigger is nothing we should simply ignore or laugh off. And blaming it on boys (read: kids) is probably not helping either :/
@rmader @Dseitz I don't think anyone here is blaming it on children. But I would guess that if girls are getting educated more than boys, it might have to do with the fact that women only get as much respect as men (hardly) if they're educated--perhaps boys aren't working as hard on their education because they know they don't really have to.
Black women are the most educated demographic in the US and I *guarantee* it is not due to any ease or privilege in their education.
Black women are the most educated demographic in the US and I *guarantee* it is not due to any ease or privilege in their education.
@raphaelmorgan @Dseitz "Black women are the most educated demographic in the US" This appears to be a misunderstanding: https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/no-black-women-are-not-the-most-educated-group-in-the-us/
Black women still have less degrees than whites and asians, both women and men.
In fact the data to me looks like the black community is simply the worst affected by the widening gender gap in education - which would be somewhat expected if we're dealing with a structural issue. And that would IMO speak against your theory.
