Pelican
A lot of words, and I hope you are feeling better now.

You still haven’t addressed the issue of what to do to interest girls in maths and science.

After quite a lot of reading, I think the situation is best summed up below.

"More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers in the country are women and they are able to get their teaching certificates with very little mathematics preparation, according to the National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education. Other research shows that elementary education majors have the highest rate of mathematics anxiety of any college major.

The potential of these teachers to impact girls' performance by transmitting their own anxiety about mathematics has important consequences. Teachers' anxiety might undermine female students' confidence in learning mathematics throughout their years of schooling and also decrease their performance in other subjects, such as science and engineering, which are dependent on mathematical understanding."

http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2010/01/elementary-school-women-teachers.html

The situation is almost identical in Australia. After an investigation was undertaken in QLD, it was found that only 5% of teaching time in primary schools was being spent on teaching science, and about 75% of teachers didn’t even use a science text book.

However the author seems to think that it has to do with men. Unfortunately 4 out of 5 teachers were female.

So the trained feminist response to always blame men does little towards identifying the real cause of a problem.

I have never known a feminist to get anything right, and I think the author’s article is yet another example of this.

vanna,

I'm beginning to suspect that your conduct is really a masochistic ploy to have yourself "chastised" by women....perhaps it's something you secretly enjoy....and you usually have our unwavering attention in response to your hysterical rants.
Hmmmm...

Poirot
I think you just can't answer a question.

I solved the author's problem for them, but unfortunately the solution is not what the author wanted I suspect.

vanna,

It's not incumbent upon me to answer your questions - and I know your penchant for asking them as a power play.

But, alas, one's efficacy is limited on OLO - better luck next time.

Much better thank you. :)

How about "how to dissect a misogynist"....

(Of course, taking "dissect" to mean: to examine analyse and criticise in minute detail)

Just a suggestion : )

The word misogynist seems get thrown around extremely frequently, and used as an insult, just like calling someone a bastard.

In reality, it is used extremely frequently when a male disagrees with the prevailing feminist view.

It would also seem to be used to try and stop debate and exploration of alternative ideas or arguements that do not agree with the feminist dogma.

It would then appear then that feminists want men who only agree with them and submit to their authority.