PROTECT OUR MEN AND BOYS

PROTECT OUR MEN AND BOYS

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

Males are being victimized in our present progressive culture. There has been an over correction from our patriarchal roots where men were the breadwinners and women were the center of the home and family. The 1960s Sexual Cultural Revolution was not only about sex but about changing the traditional roles of men and women. Females were no longer to be seen as sexual objects or as wives, mothers and supporters of their husbands. These women were victims of sexism according to the feminist narrative. Women had to be “liberated” through government intervention.

The progressive democrat and republican politicians not only liberated females with discriminatory programs that punished men for being genetically different. Discrimination against men became government policy. Any loud verbal protests from the male in a domestic argument usually resulted in the police arresting the man by department policy.

These men were put in jail for a cooling off period while the woman remained in the residence. In most cases the male was reported to be the perpetrator even though in approximately half of the abuse case population the woman initiated the physical encounter. The justification for this policy is men’s larger size tilts the scale of justice against them. The same prejudice against men is seen in divorce decrees. Regardless of the man’s impeccable reputation and the woman’s negative character often these factors have little impact on the justice decrees that usually favor the female.

Public schools have become feminized institutions favoring girls over boys. Boys make up more than two thirds of all special education students. They are seven times more likely to be diagnosed as hyperactive than are girls, have a higher dropout rate from school, receive 90% more Ds and Fs in public schools and spend significantly more time playing video games. As children, boys have a higher rate of institutionalization than girls.

The transition to adulthood follows the same path. Males make up 90% of all incarcerated inmates. Men are at higher risk than females for obesity, they make up twice the number of drug addicts and four times the number of suicides. Men also have a propensity to stay longer in their parent’s home and are getting married later and have a lower rate of employment than women.  All this has taken place while females are still supposed to be the “repressed victims” and men are erroneously thought to be masters of the privileged class.

In the 1970s men made up 58% of students attending college and now women have reversed that to be 57% of the student population is female with only 43% of men as students in college. Women also comprise a greater number of graduate school students than do men. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs are still focused on promoting females into science and math undergraduate and graduate programs. These programs continue to expand for girls to receive special scholarships just for them. Title IX programs still exist to help females be more competitive in our entire education system. Although females have already surpassed men in attendance in undergraduate and graduate university programs the selection committee guidelines still favor females over men in most cases.

These extraordinary statistical reversals in male-female indicators in school, work, mental stability and productivity should cause a reexamination of our federal discrimination policies. The government intervention programs need to change to even the playing field for men. Rethinking would necessitate a shift in emphasis and approaches to protect and serve boys and men to function and succeed better in this over governmentally regulated world.

We need to retool public school to more effectively meet the physical and mental health realities for boys in school. Colleges and universities have to encourage more open debate on social issues and stop progressive indoctrination that eliminates logical and pragmatic solutions to problems directly effecting males. All schools need to make the environment more male friendly.

The entrance criteria for colleges has to be based not only on GPA and standard academic testing but also on accomplishments in life outside of school. These life experiences provide problem solving skills that augment other academic skills in more advanced studies and occupations.

It is time to stop punishing boys for being boys and men for being men. Half of our genetic population should not be mistreated. Both sexes have their own issues which does not mean one has to be the victim and the other the privileged.

Reversing who is the victim and who is the privileged is not the answer. Both genders are needed to function on their optimal level to have a productive nation.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING in a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.