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Yawn. This argument is so far off base it's not even worth picking apart. But I'm going to do it anyhow.
- Just to reiterate, Rodney's excellent point, there is no declining NUMBER of men in college, it's an increase in the number of women leading to a decreased PERCENTAGE of men. That alone should be enough to call "bullshit" on the article. It's suggesting a spurious explanation for a phenomenon that doesn't even exist.
- While there may be "rampant anti-male sentiment" on some campuses, I hardly think the addition of some feminist studies courses and date rape awareness campaigns = rampant anti-male sentiment. Like it or not, it's the marketplace of ideas, and radical feminism is one of those ideas competing with others. Doesn't make it true, doesn't mean the people exposed to it believe it, and doesn't mean it has an effect on college attendance. And how do you explain the performance of boys in K-12 before they're exposed to the rampantly anti-male college campus? Bleedover into the culture? Please.
- When will cultural critics learn to SHOW ME THE FUCKING DATA. Want to know why there are fewer men on campus (which there aren't, see first point above)? ASK THEM. Where's the ethnography? Where are the opinion surveys, the focus groups, etc.? This is just somebody with an ax to grind touting a lame-ass and badly supported opinion as fact.
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