Sommers, a former Clark University philosophy professor, builds an airtight case against public school programs designed by gender equity experts. These busybodies' mission is to rescue girls from becoming Ophelia the victim, while attempting to turn boys into wusses. To boost the girls' self-esteem, boys are prohibited from romping and competitive play. Teachers' assignments routinely probe students' feelings on any given topic. Thanks to this type of institutionalized nonsense, boys drop out or are expelled from school in higher numbers.
Male students are also three times more likely to be enrolled in special education programs.
In reality, boys may dominate in sports, but girls make better grades, take more Advanced Placement courses and are likelier to attend college. Given that the majority of school personnel are females, it seems that martriarchs, not partriarchs, run the schools. Sommers applauds academic programs which allow boys to be boys. British educators, she notes, are experimenting with all-boy classes where adventure tales with male heroes and war poetry are read. Sommers has launched a one-woman blitzkrieg against the advances of the leaders on the front lines of the gender politics war.