Linda Purrington Title IX Advocates <lpurring@earthlink.net>
andrea marcus wrote:
>
> Pointing out that things are more difficult for girls does not provide proof
> that boys have an easy time of it either.
>
> Both boys and girls in this culture could use a little support and
> acceptance of who they are. Bashing one has never benefitted the other.
>
> At 11:02 AM 3/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >When I roused up edequity@tristram.edc.org about Title IX, one teacher
> >remarked that he was said boys had to give up so much of their humanity
> >to become men; this was one reply. thought you might be
> >interested--Linda:
> >
> >"--- writes that he looks to the day that teaching will release
> >boys from boy stereotypes so that " 'becoming a man' will no longer
> >requires that we set aside so much of our humanity".
> >
> >---, becoming a man does not require you set aside your humanity. It
> >heaps reward and profit on boys for setting aside their humanity, a
> >reward and profit that boys and men can CHOOSE to give up any time they
> >want.
> >
> >Boys graduating from high school right away make more money than girls
> >graduating from college.. Boys can give up this money any time they
> >want. Girls, however, are not free to take this collosal money
> >difference from the boys.
> >
> >Teenage boys do an average of three hours work around the home every
> >week. Their teenage sisters do an average of ten hours work around the
> >home every week. Boys are completely free to increase their hours of
> >work any time they want. Girls are not free to abdicate their chores.
> >
> >It is outrageous to say that boys are REQUIRED to take more than their
> >share of the playground, hog the computors, rape girls, make more money
> >than girls, have later curfew, do hugely less hours of housework than
> >girls and use or condone violence to keep this grossly unequal system in
> >place. Boys (and men) are FREE to give up these activities any time they
> >want. But they don't want to because these activities give them so much
> >reward and profit and power.
> >
> >Girls are not free to take back the playground and computors from boys
> >who bully, they can't stop the nearly million rapes of girls every
> >year, nor are they free to take their share of the money back, nor to
> >stop the exploitation of their labor in the home, nor extend their
> >curfew to equal the boys, nor stop the violence of boys.
> >
> >---is also frustrated because there isn't much in the research on
> >the raising of boys!!!!!!!
> >
> >Does --- choose to ignore the entire canon of human history, of
> >psychology, of pedagogy? All of which is based on the study of boys. And
> >now in the smallest sliver of recent time we have a few dozen books on
> >girls and --- and so many other "nontraditional males"
> >take their outsized share of free time in the world and their hugely
> >outsized share of media access and they cry victim.
> >
> >INCREDIBLE!
Marie de Santis
> >
> >