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the lost boys

19/08/01 @ 9:45 p.m.

I’ve mentioned the evil of the Daily Mail a few times before in passing, but today they get an entry all to themselves. For the lucky people who’ve not had it land on their parents’ doormat every morning for the past 23 years, it’s a British middle-class tabloid that thinks it’s the guardian of morality in the nation. Every week they have a “Saturday Essay” and yesterday’s is still refusing to leave my poor head.
Its headline read, “Emasculated by society, deprived of role models at home and school, robbed of competitive sport and now overtaken in virtually every area of education. Isn’t it time to ask... Are Boys The New Underclass?”
At first sight, the obvious answer would be no. But by looking closer at the statistics, by looking closer at the world around us, and by trying to find a deeper understanding of how gender shapes destiny, the answer becomes more clear: No.
That would be the answer from those of you with common sense, but to people like me and the Daily Mail, the answer is quite different. We see that boys are “unloved even in their own broken homes” and victims of the “unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly noticed.”
Pity these boys, who are without role models and thrown into a world with a cruel bias towards women. Weep for the lost sons who see in primary schools that all the teachers are women and all the caretakers and janitors are men. It doesn’t matter that the majority of secondary school teachers and university lecturers are men, and it doesn’t show the true gender bias in society because...uh...
Oh fuck logic, this is the Daily Mail.
I have so much sympathy for white, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class men. They’ve only had a few thousand years of dominance, and now they’ve got to put up with competition from those things that make babies. I can’t think of the name. They’re like men, but crap, and they’ve got bumps on their chests. Can’t remember. Doesn’t matter, they’re not important.
Anyway, me and the Daily Mail have decided this equality thing has gone far enough. Something has to be done, and we’re the men to do it. The first step is to get back the high paid, high-ranking jobs men never lost in the first place, and to do that we’re gonna have the glass ceiling replaced with one made of concrete and barbed wire. That’ll keep the bitches in their place.

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the lost boys
19/08/01 @ 9:45 p.m.
I’ve mentioned the evil of the Daily Mail a few times before in passing, but today they get an entry all to themselves. For the lucky people who’ve not had it land on their parents’ doormat every morning for the past 23 years, it’s a British middle-class tabloid that thinks it’s the guardian of morality in the nation. Every week they have a “Saturday Essay” and yesterday’s is still refusing to leave my poor head. Its headline read, “Emasculated by society, deprived of role models at home and school, robbed of competitive sport and now overtaken in virtually every area of education. Isn’t it time to ask... Are Boys The New Underclass?” At first sight, the obvious answer would be no. But by looking closer at the statistics, by looking closer at the world around us, and by trying to find a deeper understanding of how gender shapes destiny, the answer becomes more clear: No. That would be the answer from those of you with common sense, but to people like me and the Daily Mail, the answer is quite different. We see that boys are “unloved even in their own broken homes” and victims of the “unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly noticed.” Pity these boys, who are without role models and thrown into a world with a cruel bias towards women. Weep for the lost sons who see in primary schools that all the teachers are women and all the caretakers and janitors are men. It doesn’t matter that the majority of secondary school teachers and university lecturers are men, and it doesn’t show the true gender bias in society because...uh... Oh fuck logic, this is the Daily Mail. I have so much sympathy for white, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle-class men. They’ve only had a few thousand years of dominance, and now they’ve got to put up with competition from those things that make babies. I can’t think of the name. They’re like men, but crap, and they’ve got bumps on their chests. Can’t remember. Doesn’t matter, they’re not important. Anyway, me and the Daily Mail have decided this equality thing has gone far enough. Something has to be done, and we’re the men to do it. The first step is to get back the high paid, high-ranking jobs men never lost in the first place, and to do that we’re gonna have the glass ceiling replaced with one made of concrete and barbed wire. That’ll keep the bitches in their place.
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