What Boys Really Want

Newsweek, July, 2000 by Claudia Kalb ( With Joseph Ax)

All that stuff you've heard about how girls are ignored and oppressed and boys get all the attention in school? It's just a "myth," says philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers in her new book, "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men." Girls are actually flourishing, says Sommers--boys are the ones in trouble. They're trailing their sisters in the classroom and they're at greater risk for learning disabilities, drug abuse and crime. In this all-girls, all-the-time milieu of ours, boys have not only been ignored, she argues, they've been dismissed . And now, on top of all that, they're viewed as defective by misguided feminists and psychologists who are trying to mold them into the other sex. "Boys badly need our attention," Sommers warns. "It is late, but...

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