Re: Open Letter on Boys' Education Project

"Sonn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Well you're certainly high on emotion.  

What of it?  He's pissed off, and he damnwell should be.  He didn't
say that men and boys should be unemotional.  He just doesn't think
boys should be indoctrinated to deal with their emotions in the same
way girls do.

> Must be hanging out with too many gossipping women.
> S.

Indeed, gossiping women apparently run his country, and he's still not
afraid to get in their faces.  Think you would have as much nerve?

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
  - Voltaire

> "Peter Douglas Zohrab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > The Editor
> > Sunday Star-Times
> > New Zealand
> >
> > Dear Madam,

You show her far more respect than she deserves.

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> > How can boys possibly develop meaningful goals and self-esteem if their
> > school principals are so
> > loony as to put a *woman* in charge of telling them what their goals
> > should be ?  

I don't really think the woman will do that.  I think she will instead
use whatever means she has to make them as much like girls as
possible, and she will tell them that their kind are responsible for
rape, war, and numerous other evils.  This will dehumanize them and
make them angry, which may lead to problems later in life.

But if one gives her the benefit of the doubt, and if one assumes she
really will try to help them, the effort will be futile.  The boys
will turn her off, because boys don't really listen to women, even
their mothers.  Ask any father if this is true.  Ask him if he's ever
seen his wife tell their child to stop doing something over and over
again.  Ask if he has then walked up, ordered the child to stop, and
watched the child stop immediately.

I noticed this at school and day care.  We tended to ignore the women,
because they were always nagging us anyway, but when the lone man came
in and told us to quiet down, we did.  And he only had to say it once.
 The difference?  Respect.

Face it, ladies.  You don't get as much respect from little boys as
men do.  You can decry it all you like, and call them little sexists,
and write columns on why this should not be so, and stomp your tiny
feet until it snows in hell.  But you won't change anything, because
they're boys, and they're behaving naturally.  So put a man in charge
of this.  You might actually accomplish something for once.
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