Another bastion bites the dust?

Kate1949

I feel rather sorry for men these days. My lovely nephew was told by a female colleague during a discussion 'As a white heterosexual male, your opinion is irrelevant.'

Perhaps he was 'mansplaining'.

I agree Mattsmum.

Kate1949

I feel rather sorry for men these days. My lovely nephew was told by a female colleague during a discussion 'As a white heterosexual male, your opinion is irrelevant.'

This is really a sad quote and one that I’ve heard many times. We should be educating our young people, both girls and boys, whatever their race to be kind, considerate and responsible. I’m afraid we are brewing trouble by excluding some men from ever having a voice again.

I'm not taking away the fact girls work hard to achieve success though

Girls outperform boys at school due to changes in education. Qualifications were purely exam based, now they are mainly coursework based.

I feel rather sorry for men these days. My lovely nephew was told by a female colleague during a discussion 'As a white heterosexual male, your opinion is irrelevant.'

Thank you to those of you who included the word 'some' in your comments about men.

I do question where we all want to be? Do we want women to become the new men? Isn’t it about equality of outcome, whoever you are?

Men will fight tooth and nail to stay top dogs. The ones of my generation and earlier were brought up to believe they are the superior sex. They don't want this to change.

Females have always been the stronger sex, after all we have been propping up and supporting men since forever!

Now it’s time for this to be acknowledged and no doubt some men find it threatening.

I was talking about something very similar with one of my students last week. She was marvelling at the fact that despite girls out performing in most subjects at her school, that within 10 years, professionally they're on top. I asked her why she thought this was and she said without hesitating, 'Patriarchy'.

Yes Maw you may well be on to something there. Perhaps it's a way of fighting back as some males don't like to lose ground.

Sometimes it feels like one step forward, two steps back.