At my universty enrollment is 60:40 female/male. I know the enrollment officers and gender has absolutely nothing to do with a succesful applicant. What does matter? Grades. And female high school students just have better grades.
Does that make the entire school curriculum reverse sexist? Hardly, I remember my high school days when I had no one to blame but myself for bad grades, not inherent reverse sexism of the teachers, classes, or matriculation.
And the statistics show that we still live in a very sexist society. Want proof? Pick up that Maxim in your bathroom and flip through a couple pages. Just do it as an exercise, see how women and men are portrayed in popular media. Denying that our society is sexist and patriarchal in like denying that Hockey Night in Canada has unbalanced coverage.
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