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. In his book, The Decline of Males, anthropologist Lionel Tiger says women have taken charge of the public dialogue on gender and decisively bent it to their advantage. That is certainly true of dialogue about the schools.