As a college instructor, I am happy to see so many females attending post-secondary schools at the undergraduate and graduate levels. However, at the same time, I am also very furious by how disproportionate the gender difference has grown for enrollment in favor of female students – averaging typically a 60:40 female-to-male ratio in the U.S. These numbers are indicative of a national crisis (which few are discussing), but worse is that no one in academe seems ready to talk about this crisis – even though attaining parity between the genders should be our goal. For that reason, an important question must be answered: Where are Title IX and gender equality activists on this issue? And what are they doing?

Until Title IX shifts its focus (most of my students believe Title IX is a federal program for women, even though it is meant to find equality for both sexes), there will be little done at the federal level. I think there are a couple of reasons why so little is being done to correct this inequality:

Feminist ideology dominates the university culture, and those on campus who would question the credibility of that dominance are quickly marginalized. Even for the professors most devoted to inquiry and debate, they sidestep the questioning of feminist claims. In a recent survey, only 17% of faculty feel okay holding unpopular viewpoints. As a result, the higher education environment is not conducive to most young men who are comfortable with their masculinity and would prefer not to have it daily assaulted. Indeed, as a college teacher, I am stunned at how widespread feminism’s influence is in academe – with an ideology that is sexist towards males. It pervades the social sciences and humanities, circulating a cruel narrative of masculinity as toxic and oppressive. As politically viable, it has solid support among students, as it validates the majority of the student population (i.e. females). And as misandry, it promotes the stereotyping of males as bullies and rapists. For many young males, being identified this way is simply unbearable, and so post-secondary school remains out of their reach. The medical drugging of young males in K-12 education has significantly twisted the concept of masculinity in America, obstructing the advancement of once capable men from enrolling in college. ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) became the most used psychological label for making male normativity an abnormality in elementary and secondary schools. By high school, 20% of all American males are labeled ADHD and most are on prescription meds. And so the pathology of boyhood grows as more and more young men are labeled, then given prescriptions in the Age of the Single Mom and the Internet. In this world, boy behavior is almost always assumed inappropriate. And lacking strong male role models, the socialization of young men as they rise into adulthood and consider college is left up to physicians, psychologists, and parole officers. God bless the mothers who try, but most young men need male mentoring.