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This article came to my attention during a debate on whether or not women are more oppressed than men. I am going to go through this entire document to see if it proves that men are more oppressed than women or are the ones being oppressed rather than women. Let's get started...
“For every 100 girls....”
by Tom MortensonOriginally published by
Education Week
on March 28, 2011Updated April 16, 2019, by Professor Mark J. Perry
If this (picture above) is true, it should list why more baby boys die. This is not social inequality (not unless there is a reason as to why more boys die), it just so happens that more boys die.
Again, This doesn't prove anything without a reason. Why do more boys repeat? Why are more boys delayed, suspended, and expelled? Where is your proof that this is caused by inequality and not just by chance? Are we to force more boys to take certain tests and classes? What are we doing with girls that are so different than what we are doing with boys?
I would love to see an article like this about "For every 100 boys..."
ADHD is harder to detect in girls. I don't know why fewer girls are diagnosed with autism, communication disorders, specific learning disabilities, and etc. but it is certainly not because there are fewer of them. Now, is this proof that men are oppressed because they are more commonly diagnosed and therefore getting the help they need or is it proof that women are oppressed because they are not being diagnosed and are therefore not getting the help they need.
What blows my mind about this is that even though there are supposedly fewer men in colleges, there are still more men in government, so where are all these women going? And it is no secret that women are usually more educated than men, so this is probably true, but again, it is debatable as to the reason why.
More men have problems with alcohol and suicide because men are less likely to get help and are less likely to talk about there feelings. I do not deny that men are oppressed, because they are. I do, however, deny that women are the cause. I think most of men's oppression comes from toxic masculinity.
As for there being more male prisoners and etc., that is because women are seen as less physically capable. This is not a privilege to being female, because personally, I don't see being seen as the weaker sex as a privilege, but I do see how this can be viewed as an upside to being female.
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