Sexodus?!?

[Jenny A]

Interesting stuff, worth the read.

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I think that the article is way overblown, but there's bits of truth in it. Over-prescription of Ritalin is rampant. I volunteered in classrooms when my girls were in elementary school and saw many boys on Ritalin who I would consider just normal boys. And the multi-activity teaching style wasn't very conducive to helping kids concentrate either.

At the high school level, sex ed here is very explicit. I'm pretty sure my girls have a better theoretical knowledge of sex than their grandmothers. And that education includes much worry about sexual violence or even just peer pressure to have sex. The male is always portrayed as the assailant. The classes include role-playing attempts to get kisses or more and it's the girls' job to say no. Isn't that lovely, the boys get to be turned down after being instructed to ask?

College entrance (we are in the midst of that process) is more mixed. Girls now make up a slight majority in the liberal arts in colleges and selective colleges are looking for boys interested in English and History. But the STEM programs just drool over girls with the desire and aptitude to study in the sciences. My younger girl isn't a junior yet and she's already getting college recruitment mail, for that very reason.

We've got a board full of guys in their 20s and 30s here. Is it that awful?