Take This Angry Male Middle-Schooler To Work

Today, the Ruthe Boyea Women's Center at Central Connecticut State University will hold the program "Colors of Chemistry" as part of the annual Take Our Daughters To Work Day. My father is a professor at Central, and so I was very disappointed and angered when he was told by a spokesperson for the women's center that sons like me could not take part in this program.

This is gender-based discrimination. It is no different from discrimination against women. The women's center at CCSU claims to oppose gender-based discrimination, but it seems to impose a double standard hypocritically. If an event strictly limited to boys were scheduled at CCSU, the women's center would loudly object. Isn't it guilty of exactly the wrong it claims to want to right?

The reason given by the women's center for participating in the nationwide Take Our Daughters to Work Day is that women are not well represented in the workplace and need encouragement to enter it. I am a witness to just how false this is. In my daily life, from school to doctors' appointments, I see how women have assumed positions of authority. The women's center is blind to the changes that have occurred since the time when women were treated unequally. The existence of such an event suggests that its sponsors see women as naturally weak and incompetent, and who will never have careers outside the home without the government's assistance.

The women's center is guilty of yet another wrong. It engages in the sort of mass stereotyping involved in most kinds of discrimination. As the center sees it, my gender alone makes me an oppressor. But women can be oppressors just as men can.

It seems as if the women's center's intention is to divide men and women, boys and girls. Considering the state our nation has been in since Sept. 11, this seems especially inappropriate. This is a time when we should be concentrating on the many ways men and women are alike rather than on the ways they are different.

It is true that the discrimination women have faced in this country has been terrible, but so is the "payback" that the women's center seems to want to inflict on men. I would like to believe that the professors who run the women's center are educated enough to know that two wrongs don't make a right. The antidote to discrimination is not more discrimination.

The taxes that the people of Connecticut pay the state government fund events such as this one. They have the right to know where their money goes. I know there are many people in Connecticut, men and women alike, who would like an end to programs limited to a specific gender. Next year, I hope to attend at CCSU a Take Our Children to Work Day.

Aaron Bergman is in the seventh grade at the John Wallace Middle School in Newington.

Here's the drill:

Anybody with an interest in seeing boys participate in TYDTWD needs to pick up the phone on their office desk and call their HR manager. Simply request that you (or a coworker) be allowed to bring your/their son to work on TYDTW day. In all likelihood, you will get a polite refusal and some unsolicited bogus data from "The Association of University Women" citing how girls are shortchanged in schools. Don't give up. Simply insist on letting boys participate, reminding the HR drone that "there are discrimination laws covering these kind of things." Now you will get a stammering explanation about the event already being in place, and "there's just no way at this time." Now you can go for blood. Explain that you see discrimination going on, and that you want a seat on the committee that plans the event. Now we're into an issue involving not the boys or girls and some stupid feminist propaganda, but an actual workplace discrimination issue. If they refuse to let a man on the committee, they've just broken at least one federal law and maybe six of their own company human resource policies. You're in. A memo will be sent, or phone calls will be made to get you "invited" to join the committee. The rest is a duck shoot.

All of the above took me one five minute conversation with a confederate in the HR department, and one five minute phone call to the targeted feminist apparatchik. At the end of the call, I was copied on an e-mail directing the committee of feminist malcontents to "invite" me to join the TODTWD committee. A month later, before the committee was to meet, it disbanded. TODTWD was cancelled indefinitely. A couple of years later, it was revived as "Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day" and was administered via a company wide lottery.

Reminders: Always be polite. Don't share any anti-feminist or pro-boy sentiments or ideologies of your own. Don't imply any kind of victimhood strategies. Simply explain that you see discrimination going on and don't be afraid to repeat the phrase "There are laws." They have no defense against this approach, but a million defenses and offenses against argument and politics.

Again - this can't be stressed enough - be polite to a fault, even if it's interpreted as sarcasm or smugness. There's just no defense against it.

Mission accomplished. I don't have mnany victories like this one to brag about, but it needs to be shared and used and used some more.

"Yep, every young male is a budding mysogonistic wife beater & must be deprogrammed as soon as possible. I often wonder what the long term effects of bombarding our boys with this message will be."

Is Columbine scary enough for you? How about steadily increasing suicide, truency, incarceration, and dropout rates? How about steadily declining college attendance and marriage rates? Then there's gang violence, depression, and addiction. And for boys who avoid all that but have just had enough of school feminization and dumbing down, there's bogus diognoses of hyperactivity and attention deficit disorders . Those boys will be medicated with Ritalin before they can "become a danger" to anybody.

Crisis? What crisis?

"Take Your Daughter To Work Day", better known as "Breed Feminist-Marxist-Entitlement-Misandric-Mispatric Victimology In The Next Generation Day", was always one-sided.
I realize that the N.O.W. shrews need to spread their own Ms.-ery, and so has to convince girls that society is divided between oppressive males and oppressed females.
Adding Sons to the TYDTWD deal offers every one else a chance to balance the scales.
The feminist movement is over-confident.

That is a weakness. Worth exploiting to the max.

"That is a weakness. Worth exploiting to the max."

Yes, a weakness... an achilles heel actually. TYDTWD oversteps not just common sense and common decency, but the very laws and regulations set in place by feminism itself. A mere brushing blow to that sensitive spot can take down the resident feminist ideologues in any given workplace and frustrate feminist apparatchiks across multiple school districts. There's just no down side to complaining about it and putting an end to it wherever you find it.

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