Re: Interessanter Link

Salvatore, Tuesday, 28.03.2006, 15:00 (vor 6818 Tagen) @ Salvatore

Als Antwort auf: Interessanter Link von Salvatore am 28. März 2006 10:53:

Hier noch als kleine Ergänzung für alle, die immer noch glauben, beim Feminismus wäre es um Gleichheit der Geschlechter gegangen, oder gar num gleiche Rechte.

Voila! Eine Frauenphantasie:

"Put those books away, boys

Victoria Coren
Sunday March 19, 2006
The Observer

Move over, Vicky Pollard, you cruel pastiche of a teenager. Go back to Little Britain, Walliams and Lucas, you 35-year-old men with your mean ideas about inner-city schoolgirls. Time for a new and happier reality. Pupils at an all-female comprehensive in south east London, 35 per cent of whom are on free dinners, have voted to stay late after school and voluntarily study Latin. Ha! Where does that leave your scraped-back ponytails and inarticulate rambling? It's a case of: 'Yeah but, no but, veni vidi vici.'
Hurray for the girls at St Saviour's & St Olave's in Walworth and their beautiful, intellectual ambition. Not only are they greedy to be educated, but they actually want knowledge for knowledge's sake. A sound grasp of Latin grammar won't win them The X-Factor, a lucrative job or a night with David Beckham, but they're seeking it anyway. Enid Blyton comes to the Elephant & Castle!

However many times Catherine Tate may clump on to the screen shouting: 'Am I bovvered?' with her stripey tie askew, the truth remains that teenage girls are generally rather amazing. We all know how much better they fare, academically, than their male counterparts. It is no secret that posh boys' schools take girls in the sixth form purely to improve the A-level average. They multitask like fully grown women, poring over their textbooks despite the time-consuming demands of romance, gossip and diets. Meanwhile, the lads just dribble and fight and listen on iPods.

Is it time to admit, I wonder, that the education of boys was simply a well-meaning experiment which didn't work? Nice try, but the guys just aren't suited to it. All those centuries when young males enjoyed the benefits of teaching while their sisters sat at home doing needlework... perhaps we had the right idea all along, but the wrong sex.

Let us look at the benefits of removing all boys from education immediately. Every school would see its grade averages soar. Class sizes would be smaller. There would be more books, computers and university place to go round. Playgrounds would be calmer. Teachers would feel safer. Teen pregnancy would certainly go down. The whole 'healthy meals' issue would be solved.

Ofsted reported last week that 57 per cent of schoolchildren are still choosing burgers and chips for lunch, but that would soon be 7 per cent if you took the boys away and left only Vogue-reading, diet-obsessed girls. Jamie Oliver would be happier.

Men would then be completely unqualified to become white collar professionals of any kind. This can only be a good thing. No more sexual harassment in the workplace. No more group discounts at Spearmint Rhino. No more 'hilarious' jokes being emailed round the City; and lots more lovely pot plants in the office.

But what, I hear you ask, would men do? Don't worry - I've got it carefully planned. They would all become policemen. Well, most of them. The rest could be plumbers, mechanics, that sort of thing. Boys would be allowed to attend technical colleges to learn skilled manual labour or take security jobs where their greater physical strength would be used to best advantage.

In a trice, you would get rid of all that modern nonsense you hear about 'the threat to masculinity' and men 'not understanding their place in the world any more'. They would, instead, be given full respect for their abilities to look fierce, lift heavy things and mend stuff. They would stop feeling confused and emasculated. Everybody's sex life would improve. More children would be born, and the softer guys, the ones who are as baffled by physical aggression and bathroom pipes as I am, could work in childcare.

This brilliant plan is clearly where the future lies. And yet, oddly, only two weeks ago, the students of St Hilda's College, Oxford, voted to admit men for the first time in 113 years. What are they thinking? Their brains must be addled by too many years at mixed schools.

Fortunately, the final decision lies with the college's governing body. I am confident that those wise women will see the truth: that a perfect society lies not in Oxford's only all-female establishment voting men in, but every other academic body voting them out. Mutatis mutandis as they say in Walworth."

Ciao
Salvatore