Christina Marie Hoff Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Christina Hoff Sommers (/ˈsʌmərz/; born 1950) is an American author, self proclaimed feminist and former philosophy professor who is known for her critique of late 20th century feminism, and her writings about feminism in contemporary American culture. Her most widely discussed books are Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. Although some of her critics refer to her as anti-feminist, Sommers thinks of herself as an equity feminist who faults contemporary feminism for "its irrational hostility to men, its recklessness with facts and statistics, and its inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal – but different."
Gender identity is both biological and cultural. But we have had three generations of feminism encouraging children to enter different fields. And very little has changed. If you look at college majors, boys are still engineers and girls go into the helping professions. Many children will defy the stereotypes of their sex, but the majority seems to embody them. I think that's a reality.
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Critics of my work say: well, even if boys are failing at school, eventually they will win in life. But the fact is that men tend to show up at the extremes of success and failure. And failure is far more common. There is a small coterie of men who prevail in the high echelons of industry, politics and academia. But millions of young men are poorly educated and disengaged from the workforce. In any case, I argue that ignoring the educational needs of men is not the way to help women.
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If you look at the trends in school, many teachers and parents don't understand rough-and-tumble play. They confuse it with aggression and violence. In the U.S., it seems that hardly a week goes by without a little boy being suspended for playing cops and robbers.. Rough- and-tumble play helps boys forge critical social skills and friendships. Play is the basis of learning.
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[re: the most noted women's groups centered Washington] They have not taken well to the idea that boys are in trouble. I don't think these groups are consciously warring against boys. But I do think they see the world as a zero- sum game: a competition between Venus and Mars. Their job is to defend Venus. In just wish they would see that times have changed. They're knocking down doors that are already open.
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