Comment by zimpenfish
7 years ago
> Time magazine, which doesn't exactly seem to be a bastion of conservatism
Although Christina Hoff Sommers does have a noticeable bias/axe to grind since she's pretty anti-feminism and considers there to be a "war against boys". Also she works for the AEI which is a conservative think tank.
When she talks about the "war against boys", she's talking about the school system. Schools overmedicate and overpunish boys. The system drives boys out of school and as a result, only 40% of college students are male. If an inequality like this went the other way, there would be national outrage.
But it's not exactly a "conservative" issue. Plenty of liberals have written about it too:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penal...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...
https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2015/...
"Christina Hoff Sommers does not agree with my positions on issues therefore is biased and cannot be trusted, compared to people who do agree with my positions on issues, who are not biased and can be trusted."
"a noticeable bias/axe to grind since she's pretty anti-feminism and considers there to be a "war against boys". Also she works for the AEI which is a conservative think tank."
This strikes me as "poisoning the well."
There is a war against boys. We medicated an entire generation with psychotropic drugs to make them more passive.
The phrase strikes me as hyperbolic, but I agree there is a real problem underlying it.
My point was that people should base their opinions on CHS' claims on her evidence and arguments, rather than who she associates with.
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>considers there to be a "war against boys"
How is there not? Literally every modern school system favors activities that disproportionally disadvantage young boys. Boys and young men are dropping out of school at a far larger rate than women, and literally nobody cares. It's a travesty.
Agree. When you perform an online search for articles on the "wage gap myth," the majority of the articles seem traceable back to her.
It's because even though there is no data to support the wage gap, it's very unpopular to question it. Christina Hoff Summers is a pioneer in the field of gender equality and has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues. It's a risky position to take in today's political climate so not many have followed her footsteps.
>there is no data to support the wage gap
This is false.
https://www.epi.org/publication/what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-a...
>it's very unpopular to question it.
Also false, it's very popular (and almost cliché) to dismiss it.
>Christina Hoff Summers... has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues.
And what price would that be? She seems extremely successful.
http://www.aei.org/scholar/christina-hoff-sommers/
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