68 Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today’s world. We’re not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned “noble lie” ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, ‘How many of you are feminists?’ Very few will raise their hands, because young women don’t want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

Toy companies aren’t interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

It’s good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It’s too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.

Boys today bear the burden of several powerful cultural trends: a therapeutic approach to education that valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk, zero-tolerance policies that punish normal antics of young males, and a gender equity movement that views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn’t it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most... women are not free? They’re not self-determining human beings?