Female teachers and boys growing into men

Elwood92 said:

Unfortunately this article seems to accurately describe the sad truth that we are living in a 'women-centric' world, even in my own life I can definitely see the effect of the feminization of the educational institutions. I'm currently a student of the VWO (which is the highest level of high schools in the Netherlands and is the precedent to the Dutch Universities) and we boys are hopelessly outnumbered here. In the previous school year, around 68% of the students in my year were girls and they were usually getting higher grades than the boys because of their ability to function better within the educational system. Those boys who couldn't adapt to the subtle and indirect way of the post-modern; feminist educational institution have all failed scholastically (no matter how smart/dumb they actually were). I see them come and go every year: the high-spirited, enthusiastic, somewhat arrogant boys who just don't understand that they can't be that way if they want to succeed in this system. Their uncompromised masculinity is their downfall, they are usually not really dumb but they can't see the social context of the system and therefore they can't change in order to survive within the system. Or perhaps the teachers don't appreciate their direct and playful behaviours enough to see the potential of these boys; they usually ignore the (in their eyes) unsophisticated boys and focus all their attention on the girls. And even guys like me and my friends (who have found a way to survive in this system) are usually ignored or underestimated by the teachers, my economy teacher didn't even believe I was able to write a paper on Neoliberalism and the ongoing financial crisis. He actually thought I let somebody else write the paper for me or took it of the internet...

It's sad but true: masculinity has become the synonym for dumb, foolish and clownish behaviour... and it's effecting every single boy who's growing up right now...

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