In her pantheon of villains, feminists are the worst offenders, followed by educators. Hard-line feminists at Wellesley and Harvard believe a lot of things about men that aren't true. The vast majority of men are not violent. Hoff Sommers also argued that boys, not girls, are the victims of an educational system that applauds and honors the distaff gender but pillories males. Feminists, she said, have convinced us that girls have been shortchanged when it is boys who have been put on the back burner.
Girls get better grades.
They read more books. They are more likely to go to college. They are more engaged in their education. That is very different from turning them in a feminine direction. The second speaker, Michael Thompson, an author, consultant and Boston-area psychologist who specializes in families, came at the argument from a different perspective.