You're pointing out a real problem, but drawing the wrong conclusions. People absolutely do care about how boys are doing in the classroom. It takes very little effort to google "Boys in the classroom" and see what kind of reasons people are finding for what's going wrong, and how to fix it. If anything, boys may be acting as canaries for what's wrong with our educational system, and improving things for them is quite likely to improve things for the girls in the classroom as well. Do you really think society is against that?
If anyone is against improving education for boys, it's the same people who are against improving education in general. The status quo is much easier to protect than a valid idea. It's what you're doing right now, after all.
Crying that women are trying to make things better for themselves is not going to improve anything for men, unless you're implying that all men are power hungry, territorial beasts who can't stand the sight of boobs anywhere other than the bedroom and the kitchen.
People like that don't want to interest women in IT. To them, a woman who is anything other than a warm, sandwich preparing fleshlight is horrifying.
It's appropriate that they were labeled Anonymous Cowards.
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You're pointing out a real problem, but drawing the wrong conclusions. People absolutely do care about how boys are doing in the classroom. It takes very little effort to google "Boys in the classroom" and see what kind of reasons people are finding for what's going wrong, and how to fix it. If anything, boys may be acting as canaries for what's wrong with our educational system, and improving things for them is quite likely to improve things for the girls in the classroom as well. Do you really think society is against that?
If anyone is against improving education for boys, it's the same people who are against improving education in general. The status quo is much easier to protect than a valid idea. It's what you're doing right now, after all.
Here's just one article on the subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/sex...
Crying that women are trying to make things better for themselves is not going to improve anything for men, unless you're implying that all men are power hungry, territorial beasts who can't stand the sight of boobs anywhere other than the bedroom and the kitchen.
You seem threatened for some reason, in spite of a general lack of female participation in your field.
People like that don't want to interest women in IT. To them, a woman who is anything other than a warm, sandwich preparing fleshlight is horrifying. It's appropriate that they were labeled Anonymous Cowards.