Where are all the guys on campus? (the elite left's sexism in action!)

EDMONTON JOURNAL (Canada) ^ | Fri 01 Apr 2005 | Lorne Gunter

[GMMAC]

Poster has children of both genders and accordingly favors fairness and results based solely upon merit in all matters of public policy.

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[GMMAC]

PING!

[Pondman88]

This is a new phenomena in the US as well. While good for the men on campus, long term i wonder what this means? Why are men not going to college?

[CaliforniaDreamer]

They won't tolerate the feminization of education. My son refused to go ( and he is making more than most of his college educated peers).

[ViLaLuz]

Many of the men on campus look like women.

[L98Fiero]

Back when I was in school, it was known as the "buck/doe ratio". I don't remember it being that much different in the late '80s.

Lot's of young men either join the military or enter the work force after high school. College campuses can be less than inviting to hardcore blue collar males.

[DollarCoins]

Goodness, this sure makes me miss college!!

[goodnesswins]

Maybe, MAYBE, the men ARE smarter than women, and have figured out that today's "college education" ain't worth it!

[Pondman88]

According to a book I have been reading, the Gen Y populatiton consists of approx 100 million people. crime is committed, primarily by men ages 18-30. Ipso facto, if less men are in college with a drastic increase in the crime commiting population of those same men--we are going to see a huge increase in crime. Kinda interesting.

hmmmm. But why aren't men going to college? Is it institutional? Will the academics start decrying this imbalance?

[longtermmemmory]

I think that is where education is going.

A university degree has very little tangible meaning other than as employer insurance. We hired X with a degree in X. (then they had to send them to get trained)

Sadly the notion of the rounded education has been killed by the PC-ification of the "rounding" subjects. LIterature, history, and non core subjects that people were required to take are pointless because they are so perverted.

Then there are also the made up degrees like "feminist studies".

The author is right, this is sadistic payback in the eyes of the feminsits. I doubt there will be a harvard "babe" swooning at that discrimination.

[ran15]

Men have completely won the battle of the sexes. We now take an easy job, while our wives take a stressful and demanding career.

But they also have to bear the children and look after them.. and cook and clean for us. ---Life is good!

[longtermmemmory]

interesting point. How many straight men are on campus? If going to college becomes a homosexual thing the ratio at non-ivy schools will be 0 straight men.

[blanknoone]

Do many of the schools in Canuckistan feature 'affirmitive action' for women? Is gender a consideration in application? Perhaps it is time to recognize men as a discriminated against minority.

[stevem]

My daughter is a senior at Creighton (Omaha). She says it's about 70% female. It doesn't seem to me it would be too hard to recruit males to such an environment.

My son graduated from Marquette (Milwaukee). I never heard that the ratio was that skewed, but don't know. Every time I visited the campus, there seemed to be lots of lasses about.

My oldest daughter went to UW (Eau Claire) I thought at one time I heard the lasses outnumbered the lads at that institution.

This may be naive, but I feel the object should be to get an education. As for Marquette and Creighton, I think the Jesuits have learned a thing or two about educating folks. I also recall extremely good feelings regarding EW (Eau Claire) especially when my oldest explained what they discussed regarding social issues. Each of my kids have studied in science or engineering, and I think each of these schools performed well. My kids are conservative and have never been maltreated because of that.

I don't recall these ratios when I graduated in the 1970's. Maybe I was born 25 years too early.

[lillybet]

Pictures

[Richard Kimball]

My campus is roughly 68% female. Classes have been feminized, and most men don't want to be there. It's as simple as that. Classes that men enjoy, like firefighting, high angle rescue, etc., fill up quickly, but feminists and ultra-liberals control much of academia. Men don't want to hang around a bunch of aging Gloria Stienhams and Alan Aldas.

[Tallguy]

Shhhhhh! You're giving up the Game!

[longtermmemmory]

I believe they call that job "a pimp".

[longtermmemmory]

Alan Alda, a womans woman.

[TChris]

After decades of overt repression of everything male, maybe some boys and young men are actually believing it enough to hold lower expectations of themselves. If you continuously tell boys that they are destined to be crude, ham-fisted neanderthals who are interested only in sex and sports, many of them will oblige you. Kids tend to live up to, or down to, the expectations of the adults around them.

Far too many feminists have spent decades promoting the simple-minded approach of beating down masculinity and berating men with such a broad brush that it was bound to have an adverse effect in the long run. Add to this the fact that many of these philosophies have worked their way into our laws and schools and, well, this is what you get.