{"id":186,"date":"2009-02-17T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-08-24T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:18:16","slug":"keeping-violent-media-away-from-boys-could-be-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/keeping-violent-media-away-from-boys-could-be-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping violent media away from boys could be a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica examines &#8220;The Trouble with Boys&#8221; by Peg Tyre. \u00c2\u00a0The book postulates:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> &#8220;Boys get expelled from preschool at four times the rates of girls,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;They are prescribed the lion&#8217;s share of ADHD medication, they get most of the C&#8217;s and D&#8217;s in middle school, and they drop out of high school more than girls. Currently, only 43% of undergraduates in the United States are men.&#8221; So what&#8217;s the solution? Tyre&#8217;s suggestion is simple enough: let boys be boys by simply letting them engage in the aggressive fantasies that come to them naturally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>As a result, &#8220;we&#8217;re in this place\u00e2\u20ac\u201das a culture\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere smart, right-thinking parents discourage their sons from violence,&#8221; Tyre said. &#8220;It&#8217;s perfectly normal for little boys to think and talk around violence; it doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re going to be violent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It sounds like a book that I will have to read &amp; review&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/eb4947fa-d287-4f5f-ae29-89132f2848f1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"EB4947FA-D287-4F5F-AE29-89132F2848F1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/02\/keeping-violent-media-away-from-kids-could-be-a-bad-idea.ars\">Keeping violent media away from boys could be a bad idea &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica examines &#8220;The Trouble with Boys&#8221; by Peg Tyre. \u00c2\u00a0The book postulates: &#8220;Boys get expelled from preschool at four times the rates of girls,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;They are prescribed the lion&#8217;s share of ADHD medication, they get most of the C&#8217;s and D&#8217;s in middle school, and they drop out of high school more <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/keeping-violent-media-away-from-boys-could-be-a-bad-idea\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[137,8],"tags":[265,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->