Hey Puny Boy with the Glasses!
Data from 2003 shows that 60.9% of undergraduates are girls and 39.1% are boys (the latter percentage, by the way, is not automatically knowable from the former, not in today's world of transvestities, transgenders, and other translogical mutations).
According to this article,
An examination of the enrolment in universities reveals more alarming data. Some faculties have no or few male students. Courses such as law, accounting and economics that were once male dominated are now dominated by female students.
So what's causing it? The writer of the article offers a variety of explanations and dismisses them all, opting instead to blame the testicles. You see, testosterone makes boys more energetic. Parents and teachers improperly restrain the extra energy, with the result that they have a bad attitude toward learning. Excerpts:
Their boisterousness and aggressiveness earns them reprimands throughout their young lives, beginning at home or at the childcare centre and continuing in preschool and school. The negative feelings boys have towards themselves undoubtedly affect their ability to learn and achieve academically. In contrast, girls are often praised and rewarded for their good behaviour and industry.
The energy level is neither dissipated appropriately nor permitted to develop. As a consequence, the boys are physically and emotionally stressed and apathy ”“ physical and emotional ”“ sets in and develops. By the time they reach late childhood or adolescence, they have become poor students and are highly vulnerable to drug abuse.
If the boys' high energy level and competitive behaviour are harnessed appropriately, they can become great leaders because these qualities are needed for leadership.
In the old days when there was less emphasis on academic excellence and less curbing of boisterousness; boys were allowed to develop these qualities. Therefore parents, childcare providers, teachers and society may need to re-examine the nurturing style and educational practices in today's society.
It's difficult to comment on the theory, other than to make us wonder uncomfortably: Eric Scheske reads and studies all the time, a characteristic he's carried with him since childhood. What's that say about his genitals?
