Who is this "feminism" you speak of?
Organized intent for female advancement and equality, the impetus behind laws disallowing sexual discrimination, organizing campaigns to promote education for women, and instill values of aspiration in girls.
Surely you cannot be saying that all feminists agree the ratio of women to men college graduates is due to feminism? So who does agree to that silly notion? Rush Limbaugh? Glenn Beck? Sean Hannity? Who?
This may be hard to believe, but I believe this is a genuine achievement of feminism, one of the milestones I spoke of positively in my first post. Feminism is not the only factor, but it's an instrumental one, both in securing the right of women to coeducation way-back-when, and increasing attendance. I don't see how this can be denied.
It's not the ratio I'm talking about, ti's the increased trend of attendance - a good thing. The ratio is a side consequence, men falling behind is partially because the same sort of impetus doesn't exist as strongly behind boys and men now, instead our media/society scripts for a large set of other values. Of course, there's still a de facto educational bias, illustrated thusly:
Though female attendance, and graduation, may now exceed the male figures in an absolute sense, there are still many fields in which women are grossly underepresented, due to how we condition male and female expectations illustrated brilliantly by the comic above. This is still the enemy of progress.
And second, if you were kindly addressing me, I do not believe you fully understood my question. I was not asking who is willing to take the credit for the current ratio of women to men college graduates. Instead, I was asking on what reasonable grounds one might believe such a silly notion
I find it to be neither unreasonable or silly to suggest that feminism increases female attendance to universities. Without such a socially transformation force moving minds towards higher pursuits on the male side of the equation, even though feminism oft takes it upon itself to stimulate male education etc. as any mother in her right mind ought, especially in the context of scripting boys to be more female-friendly or, sometimes, feminized, men fall behind.
The social costs will not be inconsiderable.
It's not that I disagree with feminism (or most of it, anyway) as I think it's incomplete, exclusionary in varying degrees, and ultimately self-limiting.
