American - Author | 1950 -
Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.
Christina Hoff Sommers
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Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.
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In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
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I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.
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Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
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You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.
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I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.
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I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
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Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
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We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
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