that the head of her school, the local education authority, the department for education, the board of governors, and other key decision-makers were men. Why were none of them standing up for these boys? Why did they allow this teacher to corrupt the truth? In fact, just where are the male champions to challenge injustices like these?
In The War Against Boys, another feminist writer, Christina Hoff Sommers remarks that “When boys are discussed at all, it’s in the context of how to modify their antisocial behaviour – i.e. how to make them more like girls… it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children”. Again, look at the figures though and it is evident that men outnumber women in policy-making roles. If boys are being “pathologised”, it is also by their own gender.
But did that teacher have a point? Are men inherently violent? According to several studies (some of which you’ll find at http://www.mankind.org.uk/The%20A-Z%20of%20Dom.pdf), the reality is that there is as much, if not more, violence by women. One study found that 75% of men were seriously assaulted by their wives at least once a month. 33% were kicked in the genitals; others were burned, had things thrown at them, or were hit with heavy objects.
Despite this, if they reported the attack, 21% of the men were arrested and 47% were threatened with arrest. Of the just 3% of female attackers who were charged with assault, not one was convicted, despite the serious injuries some of the men suffered. Furthermore, if the male victim brought a case to court, he was often denied access to his children as another form of violence by women towards their husbands – and towards the children