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　　★★《2003年09月号-第42期-Disc02-10》★★ 　　School Crisis: Girls Dominate 　　Remarks: 　　Remember when girls became nurses and not doctors, 1)stenographers not C.E.O.s, teachers not 2)principals? Well, that’s not the way it is anymore. Today, school 3)districts report that boys are 4)withdrawing from the life of schools and girls are taking over, and we wanted to find out why. 　　Viewpoints: 　　Girls don’t necessary get 5)teased as much if they do well. 　　I think that boys are more, you know, expected to be the star athletes, you know, to bring home the football title. 　　I think maybe girls are a little more 6)goal-orientated where guys in general are more apt to go with the flow. Like, well, if I do well in high school, that’s great; if I don’t, OK, that’s fine. 　　I mean, I do think there will be a problem if it continues this way, ‘cause the boys just keep 7)sliding further and further back. 　　All the 8)rhetoric in the 9)gender 10)equity movement is about how schools 11)short-changed girls. There was almost nothing about how we could reach out to boys. In order to advance girls, they 12)exaggerated how 13)vulnerable girls were and they 14)understated the needs of boys. They 15)depicted boys as usual privileged 16)beneficiaries of a 17)patriarchal society. 　　I can’t say that boys are more short-changed. I can say that boys and girls are being short-changed in our schools today. I am not in favor of saying that girls are to get anything over boys. Most people understand that gender equity is about making sure that both boys and girls have equal 18)access to educational 19)opportunities. I think, yes, you can say that both boys and girls still have a way to go. 　　I do not think that 20)feminism has ruined the lives of boys. Where are the men? Why aren’t men 21)advocating for boys? Boys are 22)demigods, but not for their 23)academic work. 　　Girls Are Taking Over! 　　A: Girls are 1)taking over? Well, I think that this news will make many of our Crazy English female fans very happy..