Revving up Revolt?

Obama vs. the Beach Boys. Daniel Henninger.

And at U of C, a reverse discrimination group starts up, Men in Power:

Sharlene Holly, associate dean of students and the director of student activities, said the University of Chicago has approximately nine women's advocacy groups on campus; this group would be the first male advocacy group.

Saltarelli said some 125 students -- including a few women -- have joined the group via its Facebook page. He said the group would host pre-professional groups in law, medicine and business, foster ties with alumni, bring in speakers to discuss masculinity and mentor local middle school students as part of its "Little Men in Power" program.

Good for them. A comment from an "enlightened" feminist: 

Similarly, Ali Feenstra, a third-year student and a member of the Feminist Majority, questioned Men in Power's utility.

"It's like starting 'white men in business' -- there's not really any purpose," she said.

Perhaps a little sensitivity training is in order for Ms. Feenstra, you know, something like judging people by the content of their character, or the power of their ideas, not the color of their skin. Down with men rhetoric is so tiresome.

There's been a war against boys for years, most notably in our public schools, incubators of failure. Those boys grow up to be men, and yes, men may be the second sex now:

The New York Times recently reported that "a full 82 percent of the job losses have befallen men." Reuters referred to the surging male unemployment rate as a "blood bath." Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "FastStats" show that men are less likely than women to be insured--and more likely to drink, smoke, and be overweight. They also die six years earlier than women on average.

Why are there no conferences, petitions, workshops, congressional hearings, or presidential councils to help men close the education gap, the health care gap, the insurance gap, the job-loss gap, and the death gap? Because, unlike women, men do not have hundreds of men's studies departments, research institutes, policy centers, and lobby groups working tirelessly to promote their challenges as political causes.

So tiresome. We may have open revolt on the open road. I feel like wheeling out on old Route 66. Because there's a lot of America out there.