The Truth about Boys: They read less and skip pages

"A lot of people will argue that boys are much less likely to read story books – fiction – than girls and that’s one reason why girls are better than boys."

This article is glistening with sexism.

“There is a need to feed back to boys what is going on here. Boys may be assuming, ‘Oh, I like to read nonfiction. Oh, I like to read magazines. Oh, I like websites or the instructions to video games’. But this study shows that they aren’t any better at that than they are at reading fiction.”

More and more sexism, I see. What boys are assuming this?

This article sheds some light on the subject:

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-gir...

These days, school revolves around the strengths of girls, not boys. We have higher reading levels with girls and hiring college graduation rates.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/leaving-boys-behind...

Nobody cares, which tells me many of these movements aren't about equality, but about petty retribution and a power grab for small, authoritarian groups.

Great, so are we gonna put together special programs to help boys? Are we gonna start boy-only reading groups? Is the White House gonna get involved to close this gap? Are we gonna start ridiculous twitter hashtags?

I'm not holding my breath...