I started studying it in high school, which meant I had to be bussed to the boys' high school, since the girls' high school didn't offer subjects like physics and Latin and higher math. Why would we need to worry our pretty little heads about such things?
Public high schools where I grew up were segregated by sex until the mid-1980s, when the parents of a student finally sued the state over the practice. Why were they segregated by sex? So that little white girls would not have to go to school with young black men. But yeah, systemic racism definitely never existed in the United States.
ANYWAY.
My brother was in the same Latin class as I was, and I consistently scored higher than he did on every test and quiz. Since he knew that he was smarter than I was (all my brothers always thought they were smarter than I was, since I was just a girl), how could I possibly get better grades than he did?
"It's because you study," he explained to me. "I could get A's if I studied too."
That right there is why men often do worse in school than women do. Women are so tricky they commit underhanded acts like studying for exams. (The same brother failed Finite Math in college because I had made an A in that, and if I could make an A in a math class, clearly he didn't need to study or do homework in the class to get an A himself.)
No, seriously, the real problem is that men and boys are certain that they don't need to study, since they are so much smarter than women that they can learn without studying. And when it doesn't work, that doesn't mean they're wrong. It just means women are gaming the system. Or something.
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