Boys under attack: Christina Hoff Sommers was right.

Three years ago, Christina Hoff Sommers presented a radically titled book, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men. Back then, a war against boys seemed an odd charge in a society that had accepted as fact the leftist feminist claim that boys are, by definition, beneficiaries of the reigning "patriarchy," and girls, second-class citizens. After all, esteemed institutions like the Association of American University Women had commissioned studies that showed widespread "gender bias" against girls in school, and television and newspapers were filled with authoritative-sounding reports hammering home gut-wrenching stories of short-changed girls ...