So if you want to teach boys, allowances must be made. One of the tragedies of the last 20 years or so is that school systems are increasingly unwilling to make those allowances. Instead, in the wake of the feminist movement, they have absorbed anti-male attitudes almost without controversy. They are now more likely to see ordinary boy behavior as something dangerous that must be reined in. Worse, they may simply decide that the most active boys are suffering from attention deficit disorder and dope them up with Ritalin.
Boys are good.
Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance . . . . They do not need to be pathologized. Sommers's book is packed with examples of the anti-male attitudes that pervade the public schools. Boys in one San Francisco class are regularly put through feminist paces made to enjoy quilting and forced to listen as girls vent their anger at males. Some schools use the Bem Androgyny Scale named for feminist psychologist Sandra Bem to measure success in getting rid of those pesky masculine traits in boys.