Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell

Author:Thomas Sowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

THE WAR AGAINST BOYS

The old saying, “Boys will be boys,” has long since become obsolete in schools across the length and breadth of this country. Unknown to most parents, there are federally-financed programs to prevent boys from acting the way boys have always acted before.

The things done by those who have taken on the role of changing boys range from forbidding them from running and jumping during recess to having them wear dresses and pretend to be girls or women in the classroom.

Whatever the particular mix of things done at a particular school, it is accompanied by a barrage of propaganda prepared by radical feminists for nationwide distribution with the blessing—and the money—of the U.S. Department of Education.

The people who are doing this see their role as changing your children into the kinds of people they want them to be—not the kind of people you want them to be. Parents who somehow learn what is going on in school and object are told that “studies prove” that this is the right thing to do, that “specialists” and “experts” know more about this than parents can possibly know.

A newly published book titled The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers not only reveals what these brainwashing programs are doing, it also shows that the so-called “studies” on which these programs are based are either hopelessly inadequate or just plain non-existent. Christina Hoff Sommers is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and she not only sees through the fraudulent claims of the radical feminists, she is familiar with real studies—both here and overseas—which show the direct opposite of what the brainwashers claim.

The people who are promoting the anti-male agenda are experts at nothing except manipulating the media and snowing gullible educators, who are more interested in puffing themselves up as “agents of social change” than in teaching children. Boys in elementary school, or even kindergarten, have been punished for being politically incorrect toward girls.

One nine-year-old boy who reached for a piece of fruit in a school lunch line and accidentally brushed against a girl was arrested, hand-cuffed and fingerprinted for sexual harassment, even though the charges later had to be dropped. A boy of three was punished in school for hugging another child. The feminist dogma is that such things are precursors of wife-beating, rape and other crimes of men against women—and so must be nipped in the bud.

According to these propagandists, 4 million American women are beaten to death by men every year. That is four times as many American women as die from all causes put together. The actual number of women killed by men is less than one percent of what was claimed.

However inaccurate and irresponsible the propaganda, it is very effective in creating the kind of paranoia that gets brainwashing programs and draconian punishment of boys into the schools. Staggering as it is to realize that schools are using materials and creating rules based on sheer dogma and outright lies, the tragic fact is that such tactics have been common in totalitarian countries throughout this century.

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