"Nobody cares about men...or boys" says Concordia Sociologist

By Sean Gordon, Globe and Mail, September 10, 2010
But what of less tangible effects on things like identity and ambition?

Part of the problem in answering the question is a lack of scholarship on the specific effects the situation is having on Quebec's boys and the men they become.
“What's going on? I'm not sure. And I hate to say it, but nobody cares very much about men, and nobody cares very much about boys. Nowhere is that more true than Quebec,” said Anthony Synnott, a Concordia University sociologist and expert on gender issues and masculinity.
The risk, he continued, is the creation of “a permanent low-income population,” and he noted that, despite the considerable political impact of feminism on Quebec's social development since the Quiet Revolution, “men continue to dominate at the top – and also at the bottom” of the income ladder.
At least one academic, Anthony Synnott at Concordia, "gets it" in all of its ugly dimensions. Thank you, Sir.
And once the discussion begins to have the interest and cache and the cover of the academic community, in general, and that will take some time, the applications for research grants will begin.
And as one professor at RMC, Dr. W.A.D. Allan, told me in a conversation, "It is often the education departments themselves that are part of the problem, and the study needs to begin with the sociologists."
Only when we can all see the real data of unemployment, and increased social costs like the costs of childrens' services, the courts, and lost productivity will the whole society begin to take notice, perhaps.
In one Ontario city, a program director in alternative measures for legal referrals indicates that although funding for boys and girls in the program is on a 50-50 basis, the numbers in the program are roughly 70-30, with males holding the higher number. That is only one of the discrepancies that will be unearthed as we move through this swamp.