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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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Except that personally, I don't find that to be a galvanizing issue on its own.
Again, why should I care more about the bad things that are likely to affect my daughter because she's a girl more than I care about the bad things that are likely to affect my son because he's a boy? As a boy, he's three times more likely to be removed from class for bad behaviour. Six times more likely to be prescribed with a drug to control his behaviour. Less likely to get honours at every grade of school. More likely to drop out. Less likely to go to university. Less likely to read when he grows up. About eight times more likely to go to jail. Three times more likely to be murdered. Five times more likely to be homeless. Far more likely to be killed or injured on the job. Three times more likely to commit suicide.
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I'd be super happy to participate in a feminism-specific thread, but I would point out that most of us who identify as feminists would make the claim that the issues which your son faces - which are valid and serious concerns - are issues which stem from the patriarchal nature of the system in which he is being brought up, and which we, to speak very broadly, wish to change.