(Boys advocate Joe Manthey reminds us that "when girls were behind in math and science, we said there's something wrong with the schools. But now, when boys don't do well in school, we say there's something wrong with the boy.")
That is exactly how I feel. Just getting out of school, myself, I can relate with the entire article. (Guess what! I dropped out!)
I think through my entire life, I only had about....Six male teachers. Four of which were my first year of highschool. Well... I guess seven, if you count P.E. teachers.
The thing I complain about the most to people I talk to, and the thing I'm most often called sexist for, is my views on the media. I'm TIRED of the movies being made, and I know who will survive at the end of a movie.
There is always a strong female role, and she will always, ALWAYS survive, yet every man besides possibly one that she saves will be killed off. Appealing more to women then men, obviously, television shows like Desperate Housewives (Never really watched the show, myself.) show women taking charge, and men as pigs.
More and more commercials are directed specifically at women, in the last ten years. I've yet to see a commercial for a college that is directed to men.
Examples:
There's this commercial for an art school currently airing here, it shows a woman designing women's clothing, showing a business run entirely by women (Not a man in sight.) that seems to be very successful.
There's one for a law school, showing a bunch of female lawyers, even the judge is female, but the defendant is a man, and the, the 'plaintiff' or whatever being a female. (Yes, I notice these things.)
Cooking school (I'm actually very interested in cooking.) showing a male teacher, but a dominantly female classroom.
Not related to schooling, or anything... This is a personal problem that I have with the fact that everything in the media is directed at women, or against men.....
Car commercials: They'll show mainly women driving fancy new cars, not your average soccer moms, mind you, but model style women in fancy clothes, and lots of jewelery. Often, they'll show a man by the side of the road with car problems, and she'll just smile as she drives passed him.
STD commercials: Possibly the worst thing to hear while you're eating, some of you may have seen these commercials. They start like this, there's a man and a woman holding hands or kissing, then the man will look at the camera and say "I... Have genital herpes." And the woman will go "And I don't."..... This bothers me... A lot, but I don't think I need to say why.
Magazines: This is probably one of the worst forms of media for teenage girls to get their hands on. Walking through the Safeway checkout stands, you'll see magazines with covers that say things like "40 Ways to dump that loser!" or "Is he cheating on you? Ten easy ways to tell!". This is entirely negative against men, how often do you see a manly magazine (Never) with something on the cover saying "Is she cheating on you?"?
Hell, even the newspapers. They always have a man on the cover for something like rape, or murder. But I've checked the prison website for my city, and checked the people who were in jail, at LEAST 50% of the women are in for things like rape, child molestation, even some for child/spousal abuse. Yes, women abuse their husbands.
I think I'll end my rant here....... But now you know my views, and why my TV has been turned off for over a month.