Review of "The War Against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers

I really did not like this article - "The War Against Boys" by Christina Hoff Sommers- because I believe she depended to much on bashing the author of "In a Different Voice", Carol Gilligan, as the basis of Hoff Sommer's thesis that boys have been abandoned by the educational system and that boys have been blamed for girls allegedly falling behind in achievement in the school system. I do not believe that Hoff Sommers proves her point that there is a "war against boys" by just calling into question the empirical data, or lack thereof, which is the basis of the report written by Gilligan that allegedly claims that "... girls undergo trauma as they enter adolescence,..." See Hoff Sommers, "The War Against Boys" at page 10, and by offering some statistical data that supports Hoff Sommer's argument that nowadays boys have fallen behind girls in some of the factors used to measure educational engagement of students. Although that argument a sufficient basis to prove the thesis of "The War Against Boys". The author of this article is too negative in her tone. For example, the title of her article, to begin with, is negative and definitely a hyperbole. She does not point out who has declared the war against boys, but claims there is one. I guess that from the article the reader could infer that the war was declared by the "feminist radicals" or the government influenced by the feminist radicals, but as a rational person, you must ask the question, does it really make sense that society will declare war against close to half of its future adult population ?