Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
Long time passing. There is a drought of college men on campus these days, which I can certainly attest to. Glenn Reyonolds has an intersting TechCentralStation column about this:
College, and college admissions, adds another degree to this. I, and more than a few of my white male friends feel that were we part of some group considered "diverse" that we would be paying less for college then we are now, making us wonder if we are really wanted here. There are groups for every ethnic group represented at the University (except for white males), and we get rape statistics thrown at us at every turn.
As I have written previously, favoring one group of people over another can never create equality, which seems obvious, until you realize that the supossed goal of favoring "diverse" people is equality:
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One would be to treat it the way we treat other "underrepresentation" issues in higher education: By wondering what universities are doing wrong. There seems little doubt that universities have become less male-friendly in recent decades, to the point of being downright unfriendly in many cases. The kind of statements that are routinely made about males and masculinity in classrooms and hallways would get professors fired if they were made about blacks, gays, or many other groups. Sexual-harassment policies start with the presumption that men are guilty, and inherently depraved. And colleges now come at the tail-end of an educational system that is (compared to previous decades) anti-male from kindergarten on, meaning many males probably just want to get out as soon as they can.While I never felt that schools were anti-male until I met some professors here, I can attest that "masculine activites" such as ball playing and other physical activites were regarded as aggressive behavior and either shunned or tightly regulated.
College, and college admissions, adds another degree to this. I, and more than a few of my white male friends feel that were we part of some group considered "diverse" that we would be paying less for college then we are now, making us wonder if we are really wanted here. There are groups for every ethnic group represented at the University (except for white males), and we get rape statistics thrown at us at every turn.
As I have written previously, favoring one group of people over another can never create equality, which seems obvious, until you realize that the supossed goal of favoring "diverse" people is equality:
Different, yet equal, (or separate but equal) is a concept not intrinsically grasped by human beings in the same way that labeling things as the same are. As an American white male, I endure the most of this top down inequality. Because fortune has favored me to be born as who I am now, I pay for the mistakes of my ancestors. Since white males wrote western history from the dawn of Rome up until about 1960, it must be wrong. Thus, since white males were favored under the "old" system, we must be "unfavored" as much under the new system. Anything America, which is run by white males, must be inherently wrong.
(11:57AM) Welcome Instapundit readers! (Thanks, Glenn!)
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