Reddit reviews The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

In general, boys' academic performance is struggling compared to girls'. The War Against Boys goes into it quite deeply.

/https://www.amazon.ca/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427

Good read Christina Hoff Sommers the War on Boys:

https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427

I understand not wanting to buy a book just to read it's content particularly when it's of a disagreeing political nature (I'm not made of money either) but I'd gladly buy you a copy if you're interested.

Another good read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-day/why-boys-are-failing-in-a_b_884262.html

Lack of role models, male teachers go where the pay is and many fear claims of being a pedophile (It's a pretty widespread and harmful narrative and one that is openly voiced see: https://www.veooz.com/news/ALDvUG4.html)

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/letters/story/2012-08-19/male-teachers-elementary-school/57145422/1

The educational system used to use Phonics based learning but Whole-language learning replaced it during the Feminization of education. (i.e. In order for girls to learn better it was acceptable for boys to learn less and the method by which girls better learned was brought in)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/boys-do-better-than-girls-when-taught-under-traditional-reading-methods-7184547.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHe9UJTte-M

We've also stepped away from physical (recess anyone?) and competitive learning which boys tend to very well at.

There's more that goes into this (i.e. Loss of fathers in the home, lack of default parenting, etc.) but it's undoubtedly not as efficient for boys as it used to be leading many to argue that sex-separated class rooms should be considered.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cha.asp

Women continue to receive affirmative action and gendered scholarships despite this fact.

A great source of information on this topic is The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Summers.
Some excerpts:

Although many educators recognize that boys have fallen far behind girls in school, few address the problem in a serious way. Schools that try to stop the trend, through boy-friendly pedagogy, literacy interventions, vocational training, or same-sex classes, are often thwarted. Women’s lobbying groups still call such projects evidence of a “backlash” against girls’ achievements and believe they are part of a campaign to slow further female progress.

This book explains how it became fashionable to pathologize the behavior of millions of healthy male children. We have turned against boys and forgotten a simple truth: the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal males are responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys’ aggressive tendencies must be mitigated and channeled toward constructive ends. Boys need (and crave) discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. But being a boy is not a social disease.

A Reference book of men's issues is probably your best bet for finding relevant studies.

[MRRef] (https://www.reddit.com/r/MRRef/) is more extensive but will require more digging.

Videos:

The Red Pill (NYA)

Everything by Karen Straughan

Everything by Janice Fiamengo

Books:

[Is There Anything Good About Men?] (https://gendertruce.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/baumeister-roy-is-there-anything-good-about-men.pdf) (full book online) by Roy Baumeister

The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex by Warren Farrell

The Privileged Sex by Martin Van Creveld

The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benetar

The Fraud of Feminism (full book online) by Earnest Belford Bax

Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers

The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers

Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young

Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young

Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young

Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History of Men by Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young

No More Sex War by Neil Lyndon

A few works that I think deserve more attention. Some are directly related to Men's Rights, others tangentially.

Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior by Christopher Boehm

War, Peace, Human Nature: Converging Evolutionary & Cultural Views by Douglas Fry et. al

Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance: A Model of Female/Male Interaction in Peasant Society (paper online) by Susan Carol Rogers

Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800 (paper online) by J. Bailey

The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions (full book online) by Robert Briffault

Gynocentrism: From Feudalism to the Modern Disney Princess by Peter Wright

Sex and Culture (full book online) by J.D. Unwin

The Manipulated Man (full book online) by Esther Villar

Unknown Misandry (website)

Real Sexism (website)

File a Title IX complaint with the school's title IX office and with the federal government. Instructions here:

http://knowyourix.org/title-ix/how-to-file-a-title-ix-complaint/

Chances are high that the school and OCR will choose not to act on it, but it's important that boys & young men to leave a paper trail documenting discriminatory behavior. Remember, when it comes to the government, if it isn't documented on paper, it basically never happened.

This is a good book for background information on boys in education:

http://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449440710&sr=8-1&keywords=war+against+boys

A good advocacy organization is Boys & Men in Education:

http://boysmeneducation.com/

... they may know of good resources / tactics for your son.

Your son could also organize a men's rights student organization on campus. Most campuses are in dire need of that sort of advocacy.

You must read this book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1501125427/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=8ZE1KBX66DPZTY1HR3J6&dpPl=1&dpID=51l6k66X5%2BL

https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427/

Feminism is about privilege for women, and responsibility for men.

Feminism started off by claiming the same privileges as men (voting, able to enter into contracts, etc.) and went on to demand more (affirmative action quotas, special programs for women in STEM, no responsibility for sexual activity, reshape school to female needs and learning styles, etc.)

Feminism did not adopt the responsibilities of men - conscription, mandatory fire brigades and response to hue-and-cry laws, financial responsibility for spouse's debts, etc. It later demanded additional responsibility for men (waiving due process, he for she, men must be quiet in the face of feminism, etc.)

I suppose that "facilitating the needs of women and children" does resemble taking on extra responsibility for women the was feminists demand. However, male children are included; feminism has led to what Christina Hoff Summers calls "The War Against Boys" So here, traditionalism is less gynocentric than feminism.

Traditionalism also allows men to be men, and allowed for male spaces. Feminism is opposed to "toxic masculinity" and demands entry into any male space it detects, even informal ones (see gamergate for an example ...) Traditionalism allowed men competition, excellence, independence, and many other virtues that feminism tries to snuff out society wide.

This is not to say I encourage traditionalism; I am merely pointing out that just like MGTOW, tradcons are not "just like feminists".

You can't trust people's words but with repeated actions one can infer motivation. Individual decision making is aberrant behavior to them and they seek to root it out. Education programs and the social sciences have taken a dark turn in the last couple of decades and a lot of them view classic male behavior as toxic masculinity that must eliminated from the culture.

A feminist wrote a book about it

The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501125427/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_IaHiybSP69RXY

But you may want to look into some of the "facts" behind 3rd wave feminism. [Here] (https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J5D4SKX8NC5V3C3HF5H9) is a great place to start.

> I am not comfortable painting the shooters as the victims here.

The Parkland shooter was relentlessly bullied and tormented for years before he finally snapped, and the fucking kids admitted it.

> Nor am I comfortable with saying that society treats boys so bad their only recourse is to go on a shooting spree.

Recourse?

When your single mother beats you because she doesn't understand discipline, your overweight female teachers want to put you on Ritalin because they can't handle how much energy you have, and then when you do everything you're told to do to get female approval and it winds up backfiring horrendously, someone in that situation is eventually going to snap.

Now say something really dumb, like 'you have a chip on your shoulder.'

> The victim mentality has to end, along with all the mass / school shootings.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQiAtrnuBRDXARIsABiN-7AXtT-XvJl8jQypTQq74EDR_hDWQyhtWL3gCW72iSvB8hdNxV3YAIIaAi9dEALw_wcB&hvadid=241909021669&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9033589&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=10007966018918261274&hvtargid=kwd-132846382&hydadcr=24634_10399776&keywords=the+war+against+boys&qid=1573856052&sr=8-1

When feminists are pointing it out, you know there's a fucking problem. Sometimes people are victims, and sometimes policy needs to be redressed.

Do you know what the most common correlative factors are among mass shooters, I mean besides virtually all of them being men?

In many cases that is accurate, especially in education. Men are having a crisis where we are falling far behind in schooling in all almost all subjects and in getting degrees. The system is set to favor women and not men. It's such a big problem that is literally affecting the economy. Men are being affected primarily in America, but also around the world.

Yet Australia, New Zealand, and England, among other places, all see it as a problem and are actively promoting ways to help men rise to the status of women (boy only schools that encourage things like rough housing, tag, etc, as an example) while America is doing the opposite. There are major lobbying efforts by women organizations to go against men and stop such policies here. It's literally a war against boys

So have I

What your gender is programmed for is irrelevant. The jig is up: boys are graded more harshly. In my opinion, it's a big reason many more men than women flock to objectively-graded majors in college: to escape sexism in academia.

http://people.terry.uga.edu/cornwl/research/cmvp.genderdiffs.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Boys-Misguided-Policies/dp/1501125427

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/884262.html

Et cetera. The sexism is there. But it's not a narrative that goes well with the 77-cents-on-the-dollar crowd.