on the news this morning they were doing that "ohhh so sad, more girls are going to college than boys 😔 how do we fix this?" thing and like...this isn't even a fully formed thought, but i've noticed in a lot of male-dominated discussion spaces, there's a growing disdain for academia and office workers and an insistence that trade jobs are the only professions worth going into, along with an idea that women only complain about sexism in cushy office jobs and make no effort to get into blue-collar fields. and like, i'm not saying it's necessarily true and i haven't done research into it, but it got me wondering if there could be some correlation there, in either direction? like could the idea that book learnin' is for suckers be linked to women's growing success in education? or (more likely in my opinion) that it's the very fact that more boys are growing up thinking school is for losers that leads to them not trying in school and/or not applying to college? is it not possible that all this worry over boys' academic performance is all over nothing? and if they're right that manual labor is the wiser, more lucrative choice, what's even the problem? aren't they just being Boy Bosses, or whatever?