Win $50 During Female Literacy Month
I get countless emails and comments from irate women bemoaning my spelling and grammar. What the fuck do irate women know about spelling and grammar? Compared to other genders, female literacy rates are appallingly low. That’s why I’m taking it upon myself to declare June “Female Literacy Month�? and offer the following incentive for women to improve their abysmal spellsmanship.
As of July 1st 12 noon, the woman who finds the most spelling mistakes on this website, made by yours truly, will be given her choice of $50 or I will purchase a video game for a starving child. I’ll leave the choice up to her, so I think we all know which she’s going to pick.
Women are so fucking selfish.
Maybe female illiteracy is why women can’t figure out how to use birth control. To women, “Take one pill every day,” looks like, “Take a handful of pills every few days and believe in Jesus.” Well Jesus isn’t a big fan of birth control so fuck you. If women could read The Bible, they would know that.
I haven’t made a single spelling error on this site. Manjoyment, mantivities, and mangasm aren’t misspelled words. If I see them in a submission, it is automantically disqualified. There are also more rules.
Female Literacy Month Rules
1. All submissions must be emailed to me no later than July 1st, noon GMT.
2. All words must be accompanied by the URL on which they appear.
3. In case of a tie, the earliest submission is the winner.
4. Lists with correctly spelled words will be disqualified.
5. Italicized words and words with “man�? in them are not misspelled and will be disqualified.
6. Since women don’t know how to use dictionaries, a man is allowed to verify the misspelled words, but not help find them.
7. All participants must be under 190 pounds for liability purposes. I don’t want to get any of you fatties so excited your hearts explode.
8. The choice of a selfish $50 or a video game for a starving child must be clearly marked in the submission.
9. The video game might be Gears of War, but it also might be Nintendogs.
Like when it comes to fighting for peace in the Middle East or apologizing for spilling my beer all over my pants last weekend, I expect women to be a no show on this one.
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I am a girl and i so happen to do very well in English
When i was in 6th grade i could read as well as a high school boy
I may have typos in some of my responses, but it’s not as though none of you haven’t.
I don’t know any illiterate women, all the ones that i have know read extremely well, and all the boys in my classes read at an average level.
You, again, have not had any legitimate sources for your beliefs.
and by the way, i am perfectly capable of finding a word in the dictionary, in fact, I was able to when i was 5
Wow, for someone who claims they do well in English you seem to forget the easiest rule of them all. I is always capital, bitch. Plus your syntax is very wrong.
I think someone else will be getting that fifty dollars.
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Well you’d better hurry the fuck up, Lady. Submissions are due in three days!
-Dick
I am going to try to win the video game for the starving kid.
dear dick,
what’re the stakes for punctuation, grammar and generally poor [as in lacking lustre] dic[k]tion? come on, a woman cannot live on man-poor-spelling alone; then again…
sin-seer-ly,
pants.
Good. In fact, why not tell all your friends about it? Chance to win 50 dollars. You can buy cards from Dick.
Well the contest sounds interesting, I’m going to try for it.
If she’s so “learned” in the English language.. how come she missed the:
“NO WOMEN ALLOWED”
Jeez, I was going to respond to the easy targets present by Thinker but wolfe very nicely addressed everything I was going to say, with the exception of one comment. Thinker quoted Margaret Atwood in a previous post, then in a later post identified herself as a woman. No shit. I’ve NEVER met a man who’s read Margaret Atwood, with the single exception of wolfe, who is too learned a man for me to disrespect.
Yes, Atwood’s little pun was interesting, mostly because it emphasizes how much better male writers are than female writers. That’s how it is, and that’s how it always has been. The simple fact of the matter is that men have written the best books, and I think most women know that. (Delusional feminists are the exception.)
See “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” if you have a chance. (Produced by Robert Altman, a film about Dorothy Parker.) Decently done with very good acting — and not a chick movie. There’s a good line where Dorothy Parker types the line “God, help me write like a man.” She was a very good writer, but she knew her limitations.
Yes it is. And it works rather well.
Indeed, it’s much like the ludicrous collection of question marks you toss into your screed. Since you evidently know something about writing, what would normally come off as the incompetent stylings of an irate woman has a certain beautiful irony to it.
I expected to be able to confidently tell you that you’re wrong. And you would have been a year ago. But after checking with some friends at Google, I’m told the number of obscure (non)words indexed has exploded over the last 18 months.
Try googling “mxpfft” or “arplog”, for example. Good grief.
So, yes, I’d agree there is some validity in such a search.
You had me ’til there. A master’s in English… maybe. But in teaching it? Faculties/Departments of Education are amongst the most moribund, cretinous and idiotic places of pseudo-learning.
You’re welcome to try, but I predict you shall fail.
Yes, you’re definitely studying “English Teaching”.
Even in education, we use “it’s” with an apostrophe to indicate a contraction, rather than possession. It’s one of those pesky little grammar rules that evidently, for you, have been swept away by the ‘net.
I wouldn’t raise this as an issue, but when lecturing a group of people on grammar and language, it behooves you to actually use both properly. I’ll grant you two errors, but when the third is embedded in a paragraph on the proper use of language, in a post deriding Dick for his use of language, well, no, up with that I will not put.
You come off as a somewhat higher grade of troll, I’ll grant you that, but you seem unable to actually appreciate that Dick, an attorney (they too know something about language) might well have intended Spellmanship deliberately. Indeed, I’ll give 100 to 1 odds he did.
I can agree with you with respect to some (mostly female pretending to be male) posters, but I do not agree with you with respect to Dick’s postings.
Who knows? By definition, irate women always have something to complain about.
Yes. That was mildly amusing. And Alice Munro (to pick another feminist Canadian lady-writer[1]. I think you’d like her). And assorted other female writers, some sane, some not.
Simply noting that men are better than women doesn’t mean one should reject all women.
In any event, Thinker, I invite you to check out my blog, http://www.wolfesmusings.com . There are a number of intelligent men and women that post there, and you might well be able to teach us something. Or we you. I’m sure you’ll find much to disagree with, and perhaps a little to agree with there.
-wolfe
[1]I normally only use the term ‘lady’ where I would also use the word ‘gentleman’. Here, I use it in deliberate homage to Dick. I think they call that ‘beautiful irony’.
yeah, mind shutting the fuck up? And stop with the exclaimation marks. Wait, your a woman. Point noted.
*Tells Thinker to cease immixing and fuck off to NOW convetion, then*
- Basement Jaxx feat. Lisa Kekaula - Mere Pass
*laughs* I’m not gay. I’m a woman!!!!!
*Tells Thinker to cease immixing and fuck off to gaytopia*
- Do Your Thing (Jaxx club mix) - Basement Jaxx
*Smiles at everyone*. Hello all, I’m back. I couldn’t resist this one. Spellsmanship?????????? Perhaps, if you had written is Spellmanship or italicized it you might have been able to argue that it was a deliberate neologism, but as it stands it is just a beautiful irony. BTW I googled the word and found 6 hits, 1 was your site, 3 were deliberate ironies. Such corpus searching is probably the most accurate way to verify whether something is acceptable English, even better than the dictionary (which of course I don’t know how to use).
Since I am doing my Masters in English teaching I suppose I should give you all a lesson in linguistics. Grammar and spelling are both open structures established by mutual convention. When the introduction of a new technology like the internet fundamentally disrupts those structures by shifting communication along the mode continuum the result is confusion over the conventions and misunderstandings. Since grammar and linguistics are descriptive, when language fails to achieve it’s purpose, then, and only then, is it considered a mistake. In most cases I would say that your use of expletives, truncations and coarse colloquialisms, would constitute a mistake, especially considering that the purpose of your site is supposedly the demonstration of men’s superiority over women. This is most likely what the “irate women” were complaining about.
By the way, have any of you ever read Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale”, she has an interesting pun in there about female illiteracy, noting that men glory in it because “pen is envy”
Now now now, nobody likes a bossy cunt. That’s no way to get me to explain the obvious, baby girl. You’re going to need to be a tad bit sweeter if you hope to get anything out of your daddy-o.
What I read between the lines is that you are either too insecure to state your true beliefs, or you are unwilling to be truthful.
Hmm… if you can’t read between the lines then… fuck you, that’s why.
The answer is obvious. Girl acts the way she does because Jesus hates her.
“Will you man-swear you didn’t fire up spell check and make corrections prior to posting the contest rules?”
The only response to a direct question posed to DM, in this case, was a snarky question about UNICEF being cupcake relief or some such nonsense.
“And if I find the errors and you post an acknowledgment that I am right, I’ll send $100 to UNICEF.”
Done. Although rather than to UNICEF, to a local charity (one which provides support for male victims of domestic violence), in honor of Dick Masterson. It was obviously of no use to wait for an acknowledgment, nor even a direct answer from Dick.
@Doubt: You encourage people to believe (on your site) that no person is better than another, and here espouse the opposite view, based solely on gender. What is your true belief?
Perhaps you’d forgotten the question, as it remains unanswered.
@Banzai, a belated welcome to the site. Thanks for your kind words.
@Doubt No worries. I find girl annoying as well, but I recognize what she’s doing and why — see below. And SomethingAwful (where those smiles are hosted) is a great site. I especially like their pranks and TruthMedia reviews. Man Kudos for linking them.
Gentlemen, girl provides us with an excellent example.
A little background. One of the earliest researchers (Erin Pizzey) into domestic violence discovered something rather surprising(*). A great many women deliberately act in a highly self-destructive fashion and repeatedly attempt to provoke violence, frequently instigating it.
And remember, this was in the days before DV had any consequences for the male, other than the possible opprobrium of his peers.
Why would women do this?
Nowadays, sure, she can get endless sympathy, attention from the courts, and harm her husband and family. All of these are mana to many women.
Yet back then? Maybe a little sympathy from other women, but surely contempt from anyone rational.
Fortunately, we don’t need to concern ourselves with why many women are crazy and self-destructive anymore than we need to understand string theory in order to brew a cup of tea.
However, we should be aware of such behavior in many women, and avoid feeding their hunger for abuse wherever possible.
girl is clearly a prima faciae(**) example of one such.
We do not need to know why she seeks out abuse — perhaps a lack of attention in her life; perhaps she’s fat and insecure and feels she deserves abuse; perhaps she simply wants to be validated by being made to feel angry.
We simply need to know it’s how she operates, and avoid feeding her.
Starved of attention, she will vanish, and stop blocking the break-down lane of our lives.
-wolfe
(*) Rather surprising to women, but of no surprise to men.
(**) For women like girl reading, that means ‘obvious’ or ‘compelling’.
Mmm the threat of ‘a bashing’ leaves me trembling in my boots.
Do;t deal out what you can’t hack honey!
Wolfe,
In the words of my generation,
RIGHT ON!!!
You’re the man!
-Banzai
Sweet! I love that quote.
Here are the mabtw smilies! They got re-routed to singapore! But I found them…
http://i.somethingawful.com/m3imgs/the_kins-01.gif
At least with crazy people. I have a big thing with crazy people with-no-reason-to-act-crazy trying to intimidate and control other people, let alone me.
Sorry, I tend to re-act in cue. It’s just my nature, albiet I see what you mean.
@Doubt, you’re a man, so you’re obviously better than women, but … I hate to say it, reading that reading that “about” page featuring the dialog between you and fsf almost made me want to talk about my feelings.
So that my brain would self destruct.
Why talk about rape or bashing so much? Threatening to use/abuse power is something that feminists do.
The women who post here are often crude and stupid (girl and her little ‘bumboy’ remarks is certainly an excellent example). Why join them? We’re better.
Men live a life of style and panache at 100 mph whereas women struggle with first gear. Join us in the fast lane and eschew the crude and ignorant remarks of girl and her powderpuff set.
-wolfe
I think you are in need of a bit of a bashing. You know, something to knock you stuck-up snot-nosed slutty prudes down a peg or two.
Ohhh dear he thinks he’s clever. Witty witty. I think he is need of a bit of ego bashing.
Wow, it’s like all little girls have an honorary case of autism!
We really need to kill this double-standard/
I think by the no “person” bit, he was referring to males, males only.
@Doubt: You encourage people to believe (on your site) that no person is better than another, and here espouse the opposite view, based solely on gender. What is your true belief?
Good point. Women don’t have a clue.
-Dick
We all know that, as Dave Berry explains, if given a choice between saving a baby’s life and catching a fly ball, a woman will save the baby without ever considering if there are runners on base.
You are an unstable member of society, bumboy.
I liked the girlygirlandproudofit joke. That girl really needs to get raped.
Thank God for halter tops!
Oh, no. No no no. Anyone can ask me anything I want. The question is, what do I get out of it?
A satisfied whore? No thanks.
Female:
Why is it that women always resort to threats?
Because they work.
^ More like because you have a lack of balls and have to find ways to intimidate? Nice shit bringing your husband into the picture. Wow, that was sooo womanly. You finally realized that Man is better than woman huh?
If that’s all you have on, that’s fine. Should put you in good stead for what I assume is your natural profession: porn star/whore.
I would choose your response more carefully next time. But I guess that might require some thought. Sorry. I’m being presumptious.
@Doubt: I went to your site and clicked “About Me.” I didn’t get past this bit: “You must remember, no one is better than you.”
Did I miss a “No Women Allowed” banner on your site?
Female’s kids are as illegitimate as everything she posts here.
No one but deadbeat scum would breed with someone as obnoxious and repugnant as her.
So yay for another 3 males who will be sensative queerbaits raised by a loose mother and handouts. It doesn’t matter if she really is a college graduate, she got it from quota handouts or she’d be selling her body and waiting tables while a male far smarter would take her place at the university.
I hope some man comes into their life and can actually tolerate her fatfuck mouth for more than a half hour to show the poor son’s of bitch some masculine tendencies. Or else they might realize as 30 year old virgins what a failure their mother is and slit her throat.
Hahahah please do.
Doubt, I think you found your intellectual equal with respect to fsf.
Make sure you tell them women make shitty parents. It might help them get laid before they’re 27.
-Dick
I think the slut meant “I eat men’s cocks for dinner”
P.S.
Check the about me section of my site. I defeat another little slut there, even though she ‘eats men like me for dinner.’
How clever. I am surely dealing with a far-superior intellect here.
I’m in college now. Fuck you, stupid whore.
what the fuck is your problem? I have never thanked you nor wish to engage in any sort of intellectual discussion with you. your a god damn radical feminist who doesnt give any shit to ANYTHING that goes against what you think. I was being courteous, like any man, to something that was said. I may not have agreed with everything that was said and I may have acted overly confrontational in what i said against anonymous thus i backed down. it was never, never, i repeat, a sign or show of weakness. its an act of chivalry, something which the female species doesnt have.
We are not your puppets. This site was never your playground. Cant take what i said? Cry me a river.
Stop hiding behind a screen and shout out chants of “be afraid and blah blah cock”. Come to my fucking face with some balls(which you lack) and tell it to me or just SHUT the fuck up. No one is scared of some feminist bitch trying to rave about crap. I piss on you, literally.
Why not take a bottle of sleeping pills?
sots, I’m shaking in my bed socks and won’t be able to fall asleep tonight without the light being on.
I don’t need to reread his comments but perhaps you should reread mine.
There was nothing to be done.
Pretty much yeah, seeing as this is the internet and my husband, a former World Muay Thai champion, has no way of actually having physical contact with Manvoice.
Because they work.
It’s hardly my fault if you cannot think in a non-linear way.
I think you tripped and fell into the wrong site. But thanks for your efforts, especially getting Doubt to stop with his gibberish.
I don’t need to reread his comments but perhaps you should reread mine.
There was nothing to be done.
Pretty much yeah, seeing as this is the internet and my husband, a former World Muay Thai champion, has no way of actually having physical contact with Manvoice.
Because they work.
It’s hardly my fault if you cannot think in a non-linear way.
I think you tripped and fell into the wrong site. But thanks for your efforts, especially shutting Doubt up.
I enraged this beast so that she spilled the beans on her age.
That’s power.
As for me and politics female, you’d better pray not. Fuck Mugabe, I’d emulate Hitler and the prey is not Jews but feminist cunts.
No need to thank me for sorting it all out for you. Now, if you feel the need to disparage me one more time, I shall have to ask my husband to deal with you. Be afraid. Be very afraid
Don’t worry, he didn’t thank you at all in his comment. Take a look. I’ll give you a few minutes…
Done? Ok.
Also, just because someone disagrees with you or even insults you, you decide to threaten them physically huh? Why do you have to be so violent. And don’t backtrack on what you said by explaining “No no no, I never said my husband was going to hit him.” Then what the fuck should he be afraid of? A nice long talking to? Why is it that all the women resort to threats?
Pay attention to the topic of the articles. Please please please try and understand the comments that men make before using your fairy tale imaginations to interpret them in a completely wrong way. Finally, be reasonable and support the things you say rather than brandishing your husband.
No need to thank me for sorting it all out for you. Now, if you feel the need to disparage me one more time, I shall have to ask my husband to deal with you. Be afraid. Be very afraid
Anonymous, I understand what you are saying and the message you are trying to drive at. I may have misunderstood your earlier intentions but well, fine, perhaps women are gaining the upperhand though as long as there are men alive who are like us , those who are striving to keep the male gender on top, there will always always be hope.
you think in 50 years this will all change? Well, I am going to assure you that on my own count, I am not going to let a bitch beat me at any game of her choice be it in the business, politics etc. There are guys i know who do share the same ideas and women may make up the lower rungs rungs of the ladder more than men(as in the case of walmart) but i assure you… men will still remain on top… at least in my case.
i wish all guys the best, truly, dont let them get on top of you. and female, before you go on and bitch about how female bosses are teh pwn, i would have you note that my own mother is against female bosses. numerous people, regardless of the gender, are against them and the way in which they operate - that in a dominating, powerhungry manner. Note: Women abuse maids 9 out of 10 times in Asian countries.
when i asked , what have you achieved and what will you achieve… you replied with that instead of actually stating what you have done? WELL DONE. Now go take some english lessons.
And who are you to bitch about me moaning and complaing? I am doing neither. I am supporting facts. Furthermore, arent you being a hypocrite? You are doing the very same thing with at least 20 TIMES more posts to boot , and a daily post or more at that. Plus, you arent welcome on this site unlike myself so really, stfu.
oh my goodness, I take out a couple of hours to put the boys to bed and I see I am subject to yet more attacks. Will it never end?!!!!!!
In America, shortly after Female’s post appeared, Ted Kennedy got drunk.
It tempts me to create a new banner: “Save Ted Kennedy’s Liver: Stop women posting on MABTW!”.
Of course correlation does not imply causality, but then diamatik’s ably dealt with that.
No one who’s spent more than 5 minutes reading a Bible would claim it is a novel. (They might claim it is fictional, but a single novel or even simply a collection of novels? No.)
One does not need to visit Sandia labs to understand nuclear fission or believe that it exists.
No, but there is both high correlation and causation. Moreover, most promiscuous women end up having lots of abortions.
Of course, it makes it a little more difficult for a woman to lie and/or deny as well. We can agree both are excellent results.
-wolfe
In America, shortly after Female’s post appeared, Ted Kennedy got drunk.
No one who’s spent more than 5 minutes reading a Bible would claim it is a novel. (They might claim it is fictional, but a single novel? No.)
One does not need to visit San
On the fact that her book provoked a riot, who knows, I would think that the people who would have been more likely to riot would have come from the largely illiterate classes, so then how could they have read the book? But then I’m not the person with the PhD that you should perhaps be taking this point up with. Wait one minute and I’ll find the encyclopaedia’s phone number for you.
Are you aware that a woman can have sex just once, with one man, and fall pregnant? And that there are such things as coercian and rape? Being a slut doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with having an illegitimate child (though society doesn’t like this when it happens so it makes up a slur against women having sex outside marriage by proclaiming they must sleep with lots of men and thus be called sluts)
Of course, you are entirely right, the retraction of the Bastardy clause certainly didn’t create fearful, irresponsible men who refuse to acknowledge and provide for their offspring, these kind of men have existed for millenia, what the retraction really did was try to give protection to women (and infants, don’t forget, or would you prefer the baby to be dumped on the street?) unlucky enough to have been impregnated by a selfish git. And I say try, because even if a law exists to tell people how they should behave, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are going to, and hence, we still have deadbeat dads. Just now we also have DNA testing so lying and/or denying is a little more difficult for a man to do now.
Your willingness to support flawed, feminist arguments designed to disadvantage and divert resources away from men and boys is proof enough thaty ou are a feminist.
Oh yea, sure. We’ve heard that one before.
Why don’t you just Google it yourself?
I see no benefit in trying to validate or give authority to typically flawed feminist argument from the UN.
Women going forward are at a major advantage in education.
The “World” implies that is the case Everywhere. It implies that two-third of women in the West are illiterate, when in fact 55-65% of those at the highest rung of the educational ladder - University - are female.
Furthermore, the trends that are occuring in the Developed World transfer to the Developing World; not the other way around. For that reason we must look primarily at trends in the Developed, Western World when making an assessment of how things are and are likely to be in the future.
This is of absolutely no importance to our argument about wider social trends.
oh btw, I’m not a feminist, I’m a neutral party who has three male children all attending school so this is an issue I am certainly not biased against.
Well clearly you weren’t disadvantaged at school. Care to tell us your age and whether you were schooled in a same-sex or mixed private or public school (and please clarify for me which is which because in my country, the private schools are the posh ones and the public schools are the state funded schools).
Na uh. But it does help you females when you have the full weight of Government social engineering on your side, the United Nations and its various Committees on this and that, and Corporations - which know that the more educated women are, the more money they will have and spend, and the more profit they will make.
It’s not a matter of intelligence; it’s a matter of systematic preference for girls and systematic discrimination against boys.
Not all that many, I’d say, because State mixed schools do an excellent job of moving female students from high-school to third-level.
You missed my point: mixed State schools do an excellent jobs for girls and a disgraceful job for boys.
I did answer that question. The US educational system is letting 1.7 million boys slip through the net without finishing high-school every year. That is a bias in itself which disrupts the idea of merit and equality between the sexes.
I also said that there is an anti-male culture on an administration at State levels and that this has an impact. I also said that curricula have been altered to suit women’s needs and that teaching methods suit women (e.g. co-operative instead of competitive, subjective instead of objective).
Yes, men are the disadvantaged gender, and the most part for reasons not their own fault (i.e. Government social engineering). And yes, pro-male quotas would be a good idea, however, your ilk (women and feminists) are completely and entirely hostile to the idea of achieving “equality in numbers” with a quota system, or indeed giving men any extra assistance on the various levels of education.
Propose that idea to NOW or the Feminist-Democrat party (though the Feminist-Republican party is no better), and see how long they will entertain it.
In the UK they are introducing “Gender Duty” to schools which aims to “gender mainstream” the education system and “raise consciousness”. It specifically says that no extra classes should be given to boys, in spite of the fact that representation at third-level is dropping all the time. How’s that for equality and dynamic accomodation?
The really crazy thing is that women are still regarded as the “disadvantaged gender”, and Universities still push for affirmative action and pro-female quotas even when they are at a natural advantage without them. There’s also a barely-disguised “payback time” among women and feminists that the male representation percentage should go lower and lower.
It is absolutely a myth and is disingenuous. It gives the impression that on a worldwide level, going forward, women are disadvantaged in education - this is an absolute lie.
Consider what wolfe said above too:
The poor rate of education for all young people in the developing world skews the whole argument. One must remember that when saying “two-thirds of the world’s illiterate are in the developing world”.
It’s not comparing like-with-like. It presents the Third World situation as the Whole World situation, or even the Western World situation.
Furthermore, once those nations come up to speed all social indicators will change dramatically.
In about 10 or 15 years time, about just one-third of the world’s University educated will be men. I don’t see the United Nations or any other feminist organisations complaining about that or making shaming media campaigns about it.
Na uh. But it does help you females when you have the full weight of Government social engineering on your side, the United Nations and its various Committees on this and that, and Corporations - which know that the more educated women are, the more money they will have and spend, and the more profit they will make.
It’s not a matter of intelligence; it’s a matter of systematic preference for girls and systematic discrimination against boys.
Not all that many, I’d say, because State mixed schools do an excellent job of moving female students from high-school to third-level.
You missed my point: mixed State schools do an excellent jobs for girls and a disgraceful job for boys.
I did answer that question. The US educational system is letting 1.7 million boys slip through the net without finishing high-school every year. That is a bias in itself which disrupts the idea of merit and equality between the sexes.
I also said that there is an anti-male culture on an administration at State levels and that this has an impact. I also said that curricula have been altered to suit women’s needs and that teaching methods suit women (e.g. co-operative instead of competitive, subjective instead of objective).
Yes, men are the disadvantaged gender, and the most part for reasons not their own fault (i.e. Government social engineering). And yes, pro-male quotas would be a good idea, however, your ilk (women and feminists) are completely and entirely hostile to the idea of achieving “equality in numbers” with a quota system, or indeed giving men any extra assistance on the various levels of education.
Propose that idea to NOW or the Feminist-Democrat party (though the Feminist-Republican party is no better), and see how long they will entertain it.
In the UK they are introducing “Gender Duty” to schools which aims to “gender mainstream” the education system and “raise consciousness”. It specifically says that no extra classes should be given to boys, in spite of the fact that representation at third-level is dropping all the time. How’s that for equality and dynamic accomodation?
The really crazy thing is that women are still regarded as the “disadvantaged gender”, and Universities still push for affirmative action and pro-female quotas even when they are at a natural advantage without them. There’s also a barely-disguised “payback time” among women and feminists that the male representation percentage should go lower and lower.
It is absolutely a myth and is disingenuous. It gives the impression that on a worldwide level, going forward, women are disadvantaged in education - this is an absolute lie.
Consider what wolfe said above too:
The poor rate of education for all young people in the developing world skews the whole argument. One must remember that when saying “two-thirds of the world’s illiterate are in the developing world”.
It’s not comparing like-with-like. It presents the Third World situation as the Whole World situation, or even the Western World situation.
Furthermore, once those nations come up to speed all social indicators will change dramatically.
In about 10 or 15 years time, about just one-third of the world’s University educated will be men. I don’t see the United Nations or any other feminist organisations complaining about that or making shaming media campaigns about it.
What about women outside the West? Considering you are the Statman, where is the stat that factors in third world women? Would that make up the 2/3 you think?
I love men. Some of my favourite people are male.
What are you talking about? Now you’re just spouting extremely flawed feminist “wage gap” figures. The reality is there are double the number of men unemployed.