{"id":4768,"date":"2014-02-07T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2014-02-07T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:59:32","slug":"boys-are-boys-girls-are-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/02\/07\/boys-are-boys-girls-are-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys are Boys; Girls are Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Boys are more than imperfect girls, yet are treated as defective or stupid when they fail to respond well or learn as well as girls when they are treated as something they are not, i<\/em>.e<\/em>. girls.<\/p>\n

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     As author Sarah Hoyt points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“If you told any feminist that in a school system most teachers were men, the learning style was competitive\/non cooperative \u2013 designed for most boys over most girls \u2013 that it required them to do things \u2013 instead of just reciting things \u2013 that it was designed for male development milestones and that most male teachers had been taught girls were bad\/lazy \u2013 and girls were failing in record numbers\u2026\u00a0 They\u2019d be up in arms.<\/p>\n

“But the same thing applies to boys, in our system right now, and the response is that boys are bad\/defective.\u00a0 And when boys won\u2019t read books with girl main characters, it\u2019s the boys who are broken, but back in my day when girls didn\u2019t like books with boy main characters, we needed more books with girls as heros.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     It’s a double-standard, but such hypocrisy has become frighteningly the norm.<\/p>\n

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     Boys are more than imperfect girls, yet are treated as defective or stupid when they fail to respond well or learn as well as girls when they are treated as something they are not, i.e. girls.      As author Sarah Hoyt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[55,86],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-gender","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}