Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Girls teach boys lesson - Herald Sun

Upon reading a copy of the Herald Sun I found lying around (lying being a good choice of words), I came across an article titled "Girls teach boys lesson" which, in the first few paragraphs, summed up how much better girls were doing at schools (99 percent of girls stayed through Year 12 versus only 88 percent of boys).

Information that's hardly a world first or surprising, given the anti-male bias in schools, the media and life in general in Australia.

What's interesting is, despite apparently 99 percent of girls staying in schools, a Dr Ravn (female) has won a $310k grant to study why those tiny 1 percent (could it be less than and just rounded up for the article?) leave because, apparently girls who leave school are more 'at risk'.

So, if the numbers are to be believed, 12 percent of boys don't finish Year 12 vs only 1 percent of girls and this 'Doctor' feels that we as a society need to help the 1 percent more (pun intended).

If we take the percentages at their rounded out figures, that means that 92 percent of the children leaving school are boys and 8 percent are girls, but since the girls are more important we need to focus on them.

Maybe this is sour grapes and a "what about the boys", but clearly the entire schooling system needs to take a good hard look at itself if it is so unappealing to boys that almost 1 in 8 boys can't even stick it out to completion.

It's also very telling how the Herald Sun can simultaneously state that "girls are better than boys" and also celebrate hundreds of thousands of dollars to help them because they need more help.

Girls teach boys lesson - Herald Sun

Upon reading a copy of the Herald Sun I found lying around (lying being a good choice of words), I came across an article titled "Girls teach boys lesson" which, in the first few paragraphs, summed up how much better girls were doing at schools (99 percent of girls stayed through Year 12 versus only 88 percent of boys).

Information that's hardly a world first or surprising, given the anti-male bias in schools, the media and life in general in Australia.

What's interesting is, despite apparently 99 percent of girls staying in schools, a Dr Ravn (female) has won a $310k grant to study why those tiny 1 percent (could it be less than and just rounded up for the article?) leave because, apparently girls who leave school are more 'at risk'.

So, if the numbers are to be believed, 12 percent of boys don't finish Year 12 vs only 1 percent of girls and this 'Doctor' feels that we as a society need to help the 1 percent more (pun intended).

If we take the percentages at their rounded out figures, that means that 92 percent of the children leaving school are boys and 8 percent are girls, but since the girls are more important we need to focus on them.

Maybe this is sour grapes and a "what about the boys", but clearly the entire schooling system needs to take a good hard look at itself if it is so unappealing to boys that almost 1 in 8 boys can't even stick it out to completion.

It's also very telling how the Herald Sun can simultaneously state that "girls are better than boys" and also celebrate hundreds of thousands of dollars to help them because they need more help.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Trump wins, his (male) supporters still 'bad'

So 'The Donald' will now be known as 'The President'.  But the media don't appear to have changed at all after this after some men chanting slogans were kicked out of an event at a bar.

I like how earlier in the article they mention how a woman was ejected for throwing a drink over pro-Trump people (which is legally assault), but the headline is all about how the Trump supporters were kicked out for saying things.

Apparently the University the held the event is even looking into following up with the men.

So, in this still mixed up world saying a bunch of generic things to no one specific will mean they'll kick you out then hunt you down, but assaulting someone by throwing things at them isn't.

Nice.

Trump wins, his (male) supporters still 'bad'

So 'The Donald' will now be known as 'The President'.  But the media don't appear to have changed at all after this after some men chanting slogans were kicked out of an event at a bar.

I like how earlier in the article they mention how a woman was ejected for throwing a drink over pro-Trump people (which is legally assault), but the headline is all about how the Trump supporters were kicked out for saying things.

Apparently the University the held the event is even looking into following up with the men.

So, in this still mixed up world saying a bunch of generic things to no one specific will mean they'll kick you out then hunt you down, but assaulting someone by throwing things at them isn't.

Nice.

More proof of some subtle media bias in reporting

Here's an article about Steve Herbert resigning from his government position in relation to the scandal of him using his taxpayer funded car to ferry his two dogs between addresses.

What the whole article outright avoids mentioning is that he is a LABOR party (Left-wing) member.

I have no doubt that, had he been a Liberal party member (Right-wing) the article would mention his political affiliation left, right and center.