http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/23/where-the-boys-arent

Where the Boys Aren't
By Christopher Orlet on 2.23.12 @ 6:07AM

Girls can be anything these days, but what about boys?

Last week I happened to be attending a conference at a Midwestern medical school. Everywhere one looked there were smartly dressed female students. Many were of Asian descent, naturally, but not all. Every so often I came across a young man skulking across campus, but the males were made all the more conspicuous by their scarcity. I made a point of peeking into a few of the auditorium-sized classrooms. Again, a sea of young women.

Now perhaps the males were having a mass skip day, or it could be that like a lot of men I tend to filter out the guys and tend only to notice the young gals. (Unlikely though, since I only have eyes for my beautiful wife.) Medical school enrollment figures show that females account for half of all students, though the distaff portion continues to rise. This parity, however, is only possible due to the Herculean efforts of admissions representatives. These days schools of higher learning are cautious not to accept too many female students. This particular school, like so many others, goes out of its way to attract male students in order to avoid the tipping point after which a college becomes known as a "girls" school, at which point even fewer males apply.

Eventually medical schools may decide it is no longer worth the effort, that there are plenty of excellent female candidates, and they need no longer worry about attracting males. Nor need they worry that an entire profession will be regarded as women's work. What will it matter if most, if not all, our doctors and lawyers, like nearly all of our nurses, reporters, veterinarians, etc., are women?

I THINK IT WILL MATTER. Civilization needs smart boys more than it needs smart girls. Uneducated, uncivilized boys pose more of a risk to society. Civilization requires gentlemen, who by that very definition "never inflict pain." Anyway, there is no reason boys should be falling behind girls in either higher education or in the professions. By every standard boys and girls are evenly bright. (While boys do better in math and girls in languages, it all evens out in the end.) What then explains the disparity?

Theories abound. Among them that schools offer too many girly-girl subjects (literature, grammar, music); that boys are easily distracted and grow impatient with being seated for long periods; that boys are told that studying and doing well in school is "for sissies"; and that boys prefer to begin working and earning as soon as possible. Girls, meanwhile, are more studious, and more suited for "indoor" jobs. Most important, middle class girls are no longer getting married and having children in their early twenties, which leaves them open to graduate studies.

But I suspect another factor is at work here. Unlike in times past, girls -- at least middle class girls -- are repeatedly told (by parents, teachers, society) that they can be whatever they want to be. Girls do not have to "settle" for such occupations as teachers, nurses, or stay-at-home moms, the only options available to smart girls a half century ago. More, in these post-feminist days the stigma of being considered a "smart girl" has largely disappeared. Girls can indeed be anything they desire, from U.S. Senator to patent lawyer.

Boys, who often lack the studiousness of girls, present more of a problem. When my friend and his wife had their baby daughter he was happy to proclaim to the world that she would be a doctor. Their next child was the long -awaited son and heir. "Look at him," my friend announced proudly. "He's going to be a linebacker!" From birth, he groomed his son to be a football player. As far as I could tell, there was never any talk in the home of the young boy being a doctor or an engineer or even a lawyer. Mind you, this is a middle class family, living in a suburban enclave of lawyers, MBAs, veterinarians, etc., and not a poor single-parent household where the idea of graduate school seems an impossible dream, and a million-to-one professional sports contract seems like good odds.

Multiply this by a thousand children and you have what I witnessed on the medical school campus the other day.

I wish there were more women doctors cause I only feel comfortable around female doctors. I've noticed more male docs than female so I don't know what the writer of this article is talking about. I always have to search to find the female doctor I need and find that there aren't that many.

I wish there were more women doctors cause I only feel comfortable around female doctors.

Really? Hmm, now that I think about it, I can't really say if I prefer male or female doctors. My GP is a woman, and she is totally useless--she doesn't give a damn about any of her patients, and she doesn't know what she's talking about half the time.

Having said that, I have had good experiences with female doctors besides her, but I've also had good experiences with male doctors (like the one that did my jaw surgery. He was young, but he was also very knowledgeable and friendly). I think the most important thing when it comes to choosing a doctor is whether they know what they're doing, and if you feel comfortable talking to them. I suppose some people might feel more comfortable talking to women, but I can't say that I've had much problem talking with male doctors.

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I wish there were more women doctors cause I only feel comfortable around female doctors. I've noticed more male docs than female so I don't know what the writer of this article is talking about. I always have to search to find the female doctor I need and find that there aren't that many.

Thats funny, because finding a female OBGYN has never been an issues for my wife. And we've had OBGYN's (during pregnancies) in Orange, LA and San Bernardino Counties (We moved a lot the first few years).

Lucky you - you get a free thumbs up cause my finger accidentally hit the thumbs up button when I was reaching for the quote button.

I'm not talking about an OBGYN. I don't go to one of those. I'm talking about any doctor - ie. Internal medicine or specialist in a field.

Feminists are perfect agents for a cretinous, godless society like ours because they are perfect conformists.  They don't need to be Masons to go along with evil.  It is their ambitious natures, the pride that makes them want to do jobs better suited for men, that leads directly to evil.

Women are told they are capable of doing whatever men do, yet when feminism began, it was men primarily who dominated the career world.  Therefore the women felt that anything was justified in getting ahead, because they were at a disadvantage, they were underdogs.  "We'll show them" was the battle cry.  So they became more manly than the men; more corrupt, more ambitious, more vicious, and it was all okay because they are the weaker sex and they convince themselves that this is what they have to do to get ahead.  They can play dirty, you see, because the cards are stacked against them, this justifies anything.

This is the hypocrisy of feminism.  Women want it both ways; to be the protected, fragile sex but also to have power and influence and prestige.  They switch between both roles as it suits them.  A woman isn't afraid to turn on her feminine charm while sleeping her way to the top; but then when she's at the top, suddenly she is the dragon lady that everyone must respect, not a doll.
Yet all the time she feels like a fraud, like she isn't really taken seriously, that underneath it all no one really treats her with the respect they'd treat a male leader; and so heads must roll, to make SURE she is taken seriously.

I'm not saying this is the case with all professional women, but I believe this dynamic has played out often in the last fifty years.  The post-feminist generation is a bit different.  These girls are not militants, they grew up in a world of professional women and don't see anything special or unique about it.  In one more generation the boomerang will probably have swung back around to women wanting to stay home and raise kids; because the post-feminists, lacking the ideological defiance of their elders, are going to feel the dissatisfaction of their lives more.

I was in court recently and half the lawyers were young girls that appeared to be in their twenties.  It didn't even feel like a real court.  They want to be taken seriously so badly and they just look so naive, it's like they're playing a role.  You can really see how the media has influenced them, they want to be sexy and to be taken seriously as professionals at the same time, like Ally McBeal -- almost all wear the little short black skirts, slightly longer than a cocktail waitress would have on, to give them that professional touch.  But of course they aren't unaware of the effect their bare legs have on men, heels clicking purposely on the floor as they stroll confidently to court.

The one who did appear more serious also appeared by far the most manly.  Everything about her body language and presence was manly, you could tell that she was one of those women who thought that if she cracked the slightest smile, it would ruin her professional demeanor, so she came off as ultra-mean.  

So either these women look kind of silly doing what they do -- and that holds true even if the entire society convinces themselves it's right, we can all feel it deep down -- or they de-nature themselves to be like men.