Just been to see, thanks for posting link.
He says he didn't really read our comments, which were mainly insightful and may have made him think.
He does add this:
There are other reasons too, like the fact that boys generally need more the sporting activities that private schools provide and state schools often don?t, and are more likely to suffer in the feminised environment of the PC state system where to be male is now often considered a pathology. But the main one, definitely, is that girls have wombs and boys don?t, and that thereby hangs all the difference in the world.
I?ve never read this argument better explained than by Rod Liddle in the famous Spectator essay which began: ?So ? Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers, obviously, not while you were sober.? Rod made the point that no matter how many well-intentioned efforts are made to skew the market through Harmanesque ?anti-sexism? legislation, women?s average pay rates will always lag behind men?s because that?s the way they choose it. They?re more likely to work part-time; they?re less likely to slog away at a job long enough to get to the very top salary levels. Not because they?re lazy or less competent or because of our phallocentric culture?s glass ceilings but because once they have babies eternal wage slavery doesn?t have the appeal it once did.
Note that word ?choose?. It?s something boys don?t enjoy to nearly the same degree. There are exceptions, of course; always there are exceptions. But in the main boys don?t have the option of being able to use their looks and wiles to snare a rich husband. Nor, though our government seems determined to change this with its silly paternity legislation, do boys get to quit the rat race so they can improve their ?work-life balance?. Boys are in it for the long haul, it?s a fact of life, and because of this, and the responsibilities that go with it, it surely makes sense to do whatever you can educationally to give them that breadwinning edge.
I worry about the way women have been taught by feminism to look at the world. It seems to involve far too much time being tortured by how unfair it all is, and far too little time accepting that within that unfairness there are at least as many upsides as downsides. I don?t want my daughter to feel this resentment; I don?t want those nice Roedean girls to feel this resentment. I want them to grow up sufficiently happy in their skin that they can read an article like my one in Tatler, shrug their shoulders and go ?Yeah. And??