In our Columnist section today, Barbara Kay reminds us of a few important things just prior to Father’s Day. Things like giving credit where credit is due.
[…] For more than a generation, gender theorists have linked testosterone to violence against women, but ignored the fact that it is also responsible for the Sistine Chapel, suspension bridges, insulin and the taming of Falluja. Somehow, it has become acceptable public policy to militate against the innate drives of one sex to accommodate the self-esteem of the other’s.
It begins in school. Our public educators—overwhelmingly female in the formative years—have been trained by theorists with a strong bias against “masculine culture,” academic code for competitiveness, challenge and physical aggression. As a result, educational models tend to defer to female strengths, emphasizing expression of feeling over stoicism, talking over action, teamwork over rivalry and sympathy over justice. Boys eventually assimilate the subliminal message that their natural instincts are inherently linked to violence rather than to honour, valour and loyalty. […]
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