Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC

http://fembothunter.blogspot.com/2007/10/equality-means-only-help-girls-says.html

More feminists saying equality is the last thing they want and trying to
justify making an exception in a case that might require help to be given to
males. This time in a report to the United Kingdom's equality watchdog, the
Equal Opportunities Commission in relation to boys and their education.

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Stop helping boys, says equality watchdog

School strategies to boost boys' attainment and close the gender divide
with girls are "divisive and counterproductive", according to a report to be
published this week by the Government's equalities watchdog.
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Right, so when girls are underachieving it is the end of the world and proof
of patriarchal oppression, proof the girls are being kept down from a young
age etc etc. but when boys start to fall behind as a result of
over-correcting it is "counterproductive" to address that issue.

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The underachievement of boys relative to girls at school has become a
recurring theme of educational debate and significant resources are invested
in raising boys' achievement.

Although there has been a slight narrowing of the gender gap in this
year's
exam results, girls still outperform boys across the board. In primary
tests, girls beat boys by ten percentage points in English last year. At A
level, 25.1 per cent of girls achieved an A grade compared with 22.8 per
cent of boys.

But in a highly provocative assertion, the Equal Opportunities Commission,
suggests that "playing up the difference will exacerbate such difference".
While it acknowledges that there is a gender gap in literacy, with boys
underperforming in relation to girls, the 80-page document adds: "In other
areas, the gap is not significant and certainly the focus on boys'
underachievement detracts from the consideration needed to be given to the
larger gaps between groups defined by social class and race."
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The report in question was written by one Becky Francis and one Christine
Skelton. Would it surprise you to find interests such as "feminist research
methodologies" on their profiles?

If we look at the press release from Roehampton University about this
report, it says things like:

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Professor of Education, Becky Francis, has warned that embedded attitudes
about gender roles has lead to assumptions that boys and girls can be
treated as separate, homogenous groups in teaching and learning. Whereas in
fact, factors such as social class have a greater impact on achievement and
mean that girls from lower socio-economic groups and certain minority ethnic
groups are still out-performed by middle-class white boys.
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Girls from lower socioeconomic classes are being outperformed by middle
class boys?! OMGZ something must be done!@#$#!

Naturally the fact that girls from lower socioeconomic classes are doing
better than boys and that girls from middle classes lord over not only the
lower socioeconomic classed boys, but the middle classed boys as well, is
completely ignored. The focus must be on girls! This is an excellent example
of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain
as many advantages that they can.

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It concludes: "The strategies recommended have been divisive and often
counter-productive in terms of their emphasis on gender differences and give
the impression that all that was needed was to treat the two sexes as
separate, homogenous groups."

The report, by academics at Roehampton University, blames gender
stereotyping by parents and teachers for exaggerating the gender gap.
Entrenched attitudes based on ill-founded assumptions about gender roles
mean that perceived differences between supposedly masculine subjects (such
as physics) and so-called feminine ones (such as literacy) will increase
over time, it cautions. It adds that there is no hard evidence that
single-sex teaching improves boys' results. Instead, the report suggests
that schools should challenge stereotypes and encourage boys and girls to
diversify their skills and interests.
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Initiatives to increase girls' results have focused on making classrooms
more girl friendly. You don't go oh we need to find a standard way of
treating both sexes then go and base it around a female norm because then
boys start doing badly.

If you want things to be standard, base it on a standard in which girls and
boys do equally well. The reason people have been treating the sexes
differently is because they obviously respond to different schooling
approaches. Presumably what is going on here is that when someone suggests
making the standard way of approaching things more boy friendly, bitches
like the feminist authors of this report start wailing about how this may
prevent girls from reaching their full potential.

One way or the other. Either set the standard at the halfway mark, or treat
them differently. You don't get equality otherwise, you get female
domination (more knowledgeable readers will know this is what feminists mean
by equality, anyway).

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The report notes that social class and race have a far more significant
effect on school results than gender; girls from disadvantaged backgrounds
trail far behind middle-class boys from the same ethnic group. There is also
a wide variation in performance across black and ethnic minority groups,
with a gap of 16 percentage points between the highest and lowest achieving
ethnic groups in their English results.

Jenny Watson, who chairs EOC, said that the solution to raising school
standards across the board was to adopt a holistic approach that took
account of gender, class and race differences together, not in isolation.
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So as soon as it becomes apparent that as far as gender is concerned, boys
are doing worse, all of a sudden we have to focus on other divisions. Never
mind that while the gender gap was considered to be to the disadvantage of
girls it was the end of the world.

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But John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and
College Leaders, said it was right for schools to invest resources in
raising the attainment of boys, just as they had done 20 years ago to raise
girls' achievement: "While it's right to focus on all other underachieving
areas, such as class and race, the focus on boys should not be eased,
especially at a time when the gender gap is starting to narrow at GCSE and A
level."

Nick Gibb, the Tory schools spokesman, blamed 40 years of "progressive"
teaching methods for the underachievement of boys, disadvantaged children
and certain ethnic groups.
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Damn straight. Equality means equality. You don't go claiming to be about
equality, then go right beyond the pale of equality only to promptly change
your mind about whether we should have equality or not. I've said it before,
the main focus of feminism these days is - now that they have equality (and
more) in areas they previously convinced people they were disadvantaged in -
more about making up retarded justifications for retention of traditional
female privilege and the privilege that they have gotten by pushing female
advocacy beyond any semblance of equality.

Posted by Happy Bullet at 12:49 AM




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~ Women deserve only equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. ~

~ Men are not collectively "guilty" of anything. ~

~ Never needing to be pregnant is a blessing. ~

~ Feminist ideology "men have to respect women, but women have no reason to
respect men" ~

~ Everybody makes choices, and nobody should be entitled to special
treatment because of those choices.
Equal results based on unequal treatment amounts to no kind of equality at
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