All Posts From the Category: Bias (Institutional, Cultural)

No, Yvette Cooper, teaching misandry in British schools will not solve teens’ problems

From the Daily Mail, a UK publication, we hear this: Schoolboys need to have lessons in feminism to help teach them out to treat women, Labour claims. That is like saying we need schools to teach white nationalism to help curb gang violence. Compulsory sex education classes should be held [...]

Ben Sullivan, and things they do (slightly) differently in the UK

President of Oxford Union not charged with rape due to lack of evidence Ben Sullivan, the president of the Oxford Union, will not be charged as a result of allegations of rape and attempted rape due to insufficient evidence.  Thankfully for him, this will be the end of the matter as [...]

Wearing Thinner: The “But Men Get the Majority of Stem Degrees” Deflection

Welcome, dear readers. School is now in session. Before we begin the lecture please do a brief preclass exercise by spending a minute taking a hard look at this set of graphs on graduation rates by sex over the past forty years: Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, Table [...]

Continuously ignored by the mainstream, hundreds more men and boys are singled out and killed by Boko Haram. What’s the excuse now?

CNN has a new report for us about the recent activity of Boko Haram: [su_quote]Hundreds of people were killed in raids by Boko Haram Islamic militants in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, on the border with Cameroon, with some sources putting the death toll at 400 to 500. On Tuesday, heavily armed men [...]

06/07/2014|Bias (Institutional, Cultural)|

Feminist Bryce Covert at The Guardian explains why we should ignore men’s and boys’ education issues

Recently, I wrote an article asking why Feminist Barbara Ellen at the prominent British publication The Guardian condones the sexual assault of schoolboys. It wasn't hyperbole, and it wasn't meant rhetorically. On the contrary, Ellen laid out a long argument as to why older women (sometimes much older women) who have sex with [...]

UCAS chief Mary Cook steps up to address the lack of men in nursing and teaching

This article from Times Higher Education yields more evidence that men's issues have reached the ears of upper-level education officials in Britain (see this earlier AVFMS article for more examples of this phenomenon). The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) is an organization which British students must go through when applying for [...]

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