I’m pretty sure EA has touched on the topic of anti-male student discrimination by teachers in grade school, but not recently and not often enough, because it is a serious cultural and societal problem. The Atlantic wrote about “The War Against Boys” in 2000 before it became a complete propaganda vehicle for radical wokism—I wonder if such an essay would get published today?

2000—let’s see, that was right around the time my wife and I started becoming aware of how normal little boys were being expected to act like good little girls in school, as our authority-resisting, intrepid and energetic son was being routinely abused by boy-hating teachers to such an extent that he was permanently alienated from formal education. The finger gun nonsense is symptomatic of the trend, and crella makes the connection in this, the Comment of the Day on the post, “That Bomb ‘Finger Gun’ Should Have Never Been Made At All: How Did We End Up With ‘Finger Gun 4’??”

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There’s been a feminist-wielded campaign against almost all normal male behavior for the last 30 years. I don’t know if it’s become less prevalent, but in the 90’s, 30% or more of 2nd to 4th grade boys were being medicated for being antsy. The statistical possibility of 30% of any given class, and only the boys, actually having ADHD is minuscule. Boys are being encouraged to be princesses, engage their feminine sides, be quieter (all kinds of play are fine, forcing it is not), bolstered by the elimination of playground equipment, dodgeball (SO dangerous!), tag, and “cops and robbers.” The painting of every male as a potential predatory sexual criminal also proceeded in tandem along with banning finger, pizza, and pop tart guns, with a 4-year-old being suspended for hugging his kindergarten teacher and another suspended for snapping the waist band of a classmate’s pants, to cite just two examples.

Hardwired male behavior has been deemed dangerous and inappropriate. These so-called educational experts don’t seem to realize that boys’ energy, their physicality, and imaginative play as heroes and good guys all have a purpose in development. ‘Toxic masculinity’ is now the term being tossed around. I see it as the continued stifling of male expression and emotion that males have long suffered (‘boys don’t cry’, ‘man up’ etc), just from a different direction (‘here, I’m helping you’) because outright condemnation didn’t work. The end game is the same: keeping males “in their place,” shouldering the lion’s share of society’s dangerous work, while expressing discontent is labeled as toxic.

I’m curious: how many of the kids being encouraged by educators to be trans are male-to-female? I’m willing to bet they outnumber the opposite…liberal feminists dream of turning all males into females come true!