Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
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.
I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.
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.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
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.
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.
It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.
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.
It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.
I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.
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.
So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.
That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.
