NYTimes: Shortage of college men makes for female “victims”

By Men's Activism News | Source | February 6, 2010

Article here. Not that anyone would find a misandrist slant surprising at the NYT, but now they're claiming that the absence of men on university campuses is really a bigger problem for women. Why? Because the poor women can't find dates. Or because “girls feel pressured to do more than they’re comfortable with". Remember that this is the same newspaper that recently ran a whole slew of sympathetic articles claiming that women are only 16% of the military (also men's fault, of course). Where is the sympathetic article about the under-enrollment of men in higher education?

The author is careful to toast "female achievement" and boast about eliminating "affirmative action for boys" while happily dismissing an entire generation of men - particularly black and Hispanic men - who will experience less-than-equal opportunity.

Throughout the article, men are blamed for a shallow "hook-up" culture that somehow harms women. Ask yourself this: how can men be responsible for the "hook-up" culture when the majority of students are women? The rise of that same culture just happens to have coincided with the rise in female enrollment at universities, but you won't find that fact anywhere in the NYT.

A few choice quotes:

As for a man’s cheating, “that’s a thing that girls let slide, because you have to,” said Emily Kennard, a junior at North Carolina. “If you don’t let it slide, you don’t have a boyfriend.”

"the university feels obligated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldn’t want any young woman here to think that there’s somebody we’d rather have here than her,” he said."

Remember, it's not bigotry or hate speech when they do it and a woman's feelings still trump your rights every time.