Thursday, February 28, 2013

Boys and Men? Screw 'em.

Nothing demonstrates the inherently corporatist foundations of the current Federal super state than its behavior towards men and boys.  Despite having much worse educational, health, life expectancy, and social outcomes than girls and women, a notoriously interventionist government has no interest in helping them. 

That's because like the young, they aren't part of the party of the state's power coalition.  So:  screw 'em.


“A consistent failure of the school system is reflected in its failure to educate males and females equally effectively. If the problem category were race or religion it would be politically intolerable. But boys and men–no problem. Where, for example, is the White House Council on Boys and Men, still non-existent years after the nifty one on girls and women was proudly brandished? Presumably lost somewhere in electoral politics and some dingy acceptance of payback for that vaunted 5000 years of patriarchy. We can do better.”
H/T Carpe Diem

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