Um, not for incarceration they aren’t. Also, cool your jets on the condescending replies. We don’t need that crap here.

Reverse sexism isn’t a thing.

Often what girls need flies under the radar because they’ve been taught how they have to present, though. They’ve been told to shut up and sit down, and been taught how that will be their key to future success as well.

The problem is it depends how you measure “at risk.” I think the ways in which girls—especially girls of color—are at risk tend to be ignored.

I think you have the right of it. Women who go to prison need to be punished for not being “good.” Women in prisons aren’t given menstruation products. There’s no reason for it other than punishment. Men aren’t blamed for their conditions (drugs, family life, masculinity complexes) but women are expected to overcome…

And I would definitely want a transcript of that meeting to make sure it wasn’t just authority figures saying, “Girls, wouldn’t you love to have X club and Z social thing and outings? Doesn’t that sound like FUN? Wouldn’t you rather have that then a boring old girls school? Raise your hand if you want to have FUN!”…

Did you not read the article at all? Because it sure seems like you didn’t read the fucking article.

The ‘problem’ is we’ve tried this before. And it hasn’t helped boys.

Male privilege often trumps caring about women of color.

It would probably be better to allocate carrots on the basis of nutritional need rather than using gender as a proxy.

“...DCPS officials held a meeting with over 100 girls of color, and they did not hear that they wanted an all-girls school. Instead, they wanted some kind of space or club to learn skills and to talk about their days.”

Sadly many men will stick with their male privilege before they give a shit about women of color.

While I understand that males are underperforming and this is their way of trying to deal with that, I will say as someone who attended single sex education, and who’s high school guy friends went to an all-boys school I would say without a doubt that I would never send my son to an all-boys school. I always found…

Don’t you see that this helps the girls just as much as the boys? This way they can have more successful husbands to provide for them. *vomits forever*

Shut your eyes at a concert where you’re supposed to be watching the band? No, in closed off quarters, which a dense crowd counts as, it’s as good as forcing. And forcing someone to watch you having sex is making them a participant and that’s not cool.

I recommended you by mistake. I'm an "old' feminist , so don't be so patronising. I'm sorry that the world makes you so mad that you take it into the bedroom. Feminist or nay, you think that mentioning the word "patriarchy" is going to stop women who like penis from having sex with men? I thin k you need to look…

I'm kind of disturbed that everyone is just assuming she has consented to this act. She could be totally intoxicated and therefore unable to consent, and we've technically witnessed her assault...

you must be FANTASTIC to take to a party....

A very few number of feminists believe that because we live in a patriarchal society, any sex with women is rape. Very few feminists believe this, but I think londonradfem might be one of those. I would recommend not engaging her in discussion, it's really not worth it.

Eh, call me uptight and an old but I think this is disgusting. I would never want to have my bare ass touching a public space.