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.

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

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.