Does it matter? Where are the Boys?.
Certainly, as I sat at that graduation ceremony, I was very aware that, had the situation been reversed and every role in the ceremony been given to a male, there would have been a hue and cry from every direction. Well, actually, there is no way that would have been allowed to happen; someone would have stepped in to “balance” out the gender representation. Instead, a well-informed source reported that the school administration told the faculty that the male student body president had “received enough recognition during high school” therefore he shouldn’t be given any senior honors or recognition in the graduation ceremony. Ironically, there didn’t seem to be a problem that one of the senior girls was recognized 5 times in the printed program and also gave the major address.
There will be a price to pay.
Clearly the culture against boys and men is getting worse; there are more and more instances, like the graduation ceremony that I attended, where the discrimination against boys is blatant. Those of us who grew up with wonderful fathers, married great guys and have terrific sons and grandsons recognize the importance of allowing boys to be boys. After all, those boys eventually become men. Moreover, we fully understand that those women who gain at the expense of boys and men will, in the long run, ultimately lose. Society as a whole loses, too, when the culture becomes a bitter feuding ground between the sexes and an increasingly inhospitable environment for friendship and collegiality — and, inevitably, marriage and family formation.
Nothing to see here? Think again.
