Let’s take another quick trip over to the Men’s Rights subreddit to learn the dirty secret behind the superior performance of girls in schools these days: the machinations of unmuzzled feminists!
Funcuz, could you please show your work, as they say in school.
Did the feminization of education cause this dude to to not know punctuation? Maybe he had Steelebutt’s English teacher.
Ninja’d by clairdammit, and added extra words. I’ma blame the high-test cough syrup.
Career tests … that reminds me of the most absurd ones I’ve done, when the department I was with was being closed. The so-called careers counsellor recommended all the women in our group get work with White Lady Funerals. Second choice, she thought I would like being a bus driver. Even if I did, “not being able to drive” would probably have been something of a stumbling block there.
@Historaphilia: All the teachers I’ve met are too busy trying to stop their pupils throwing desks at each to try out Feminist education theories (if such things even exist).
*heh* I used to explain to people that when it takes six weeks to get every student in class to hand in their essays, stapled, in plain manila folder, there’s no time to get to the “feminist world domination unit”!
Kitteh: Mine kept suggesting that I ought to go into science.
…I hadn’t had a competent science teacher since elementary school at the time.
@CWS, As a side note, one of my fellow thesis writers and I are making plans to bring in cat toys and laser pointers, on the theory that if our committee members start asking hard questions we can just distract them. Aren’t faculty members just like cats? Ithiliana, would that work on you? 🙂
My advisor got kicked out of a women’s basketball game for yelling at the ref. I guess he sits with a group of students because he’s too loud for the other faculty.
Ah yes, I remember cramming all night for my flower-drawing final….. we also had to memorize the names of scented candles, wtf. CURSE YOU FEMINISM.
Ozy, we obviously missed a great scam there – “Be a jobs counsellor. You can suggest total shit based on nothing and still get paid.” 😛
Cloudiah, I hope you’re going to film that presentation!
Xardoz, you totally should propose scented candles for the Manboobz Bingo thread!
I think all those gratuitous spaces are where Funcuz was planning to draw the flowers, forgetting that he was typing on a computer and not a typewriter.
Bad habits die hard.
It’s the lack of lead in the boys diets, I suppose.
It’s okay, I didn’t study for the ACT either. I didn’t even know when we were taking the MME until the first day. I was really surprised when I found out about the “girls are good at homework, boys are good at tests” trend, because tests are the only part of school I can handle well. Yay, ADHD/NVLD-brain.
Has Redditdude offered any actual data? Because this is what I found about “feminizing” education:
—Fairtest.org
@ithiliana:
Manila folders are misandry. So are staples. You are using subliminal messages to indoctrinate boys with the idea of eternal bondage.
12-point double-spaced Times New Roman with 1-inch margins is MISANDRY. 12 points, GOD, that fat font is an insult to male sexuality!
Wow, as someone who just came out of the American public school system last June, Funcuz’ head is totally up his ass. If anything, we have competition to an ungodly and unproductive extent, and I can assure you that there is a world of difference in grades given for projects – actually, it’s a bit unnecessarily harsh depending on the class. Some teachers’ grading criteria is more arbitrary, but none of it is easy for a majority of students. It is true that an unnecessary level of importance is placed on format rather than content, but that’s not gender-specific, it’s just an attempt at a more quantitative, “efficient,” cheap and easy system of grading, which is due to American public schools being FLAT BROKE, thanks to us funding two wars and refusing to tax people who can fucking afford it.
i loved tests and hated course work because it obliged me to actually work during term rather than slack off and ace the exam. but i think that course work is overall a fairer and more realistic way to measure someone’s ability other than your ability to store and regurgitate information over a short period of time.
i wish i could remember the source but when i was reading for my Women’s Studies MSc, there was some research on exams carried out in the 50s and 60s in the UK. Results were consistently altered to downgrade women and upgrade boys. i too would argue that we have been socialised into such patterns of behaviour that it is hard to be definitive about possible gendered learning styles.
I hated both. We don’t need no education!
@katz, lol. Now i have an earworm…we’re just another brick in the wall
The weirdest standardised test I’ve ever taken was the Defense Language Aptitude Battery. I’m not allowed to talk about it in detail (it is, effectively, classified, if I give discrete details I could be prosecuted), but it’s got several parts.
One is about analysing stress in auditory strings, another is about how quickly you can analyse a spoken language you have just learned the rules of, and yet another is how well you can extrapolate rules of grammar from visual puzzles.
Pecunium, that sounds like a fun test!
I like to take tests. I’m another one who tests well and is mediocre with course work.
Historophilia:
IRTA “manly timed exam work”
Like, I get that these dudes hate women, and especially feminists, and they love hanging out with people who agree with them, and metaphor and hyperbole and and and etc. etc. etc., but…. like, wtf? Feminists had feedbag muzzles to keep them quiet? What feminists? When? Are there pictures? Is it a metaphor? What is ti a metaphor for?
Can I just show up on reddit and say terrible nonsense things about feminists and have people agree with me just because the gist of the thing is “GRRR FEMINISTS BAAAAD!”???
I excel at math, I got straight A’s through three semesters of calculus. My GRE math score is my weakest because the math is so irrelevant.
I’m a guy and I aced the GRE verbal. I supposed that’s just further proof that I’m a great big mangina.