LA Times Editorial on Women and College Admissions 1/27/10

Read this commentary by the editorial board. They argue that male, White men are being given unfair treatment in admissions to college as a form of unqualified admissions. White women are being hampered in college admissions. At the end, the article mentioned that the differences, academic, were even greater when compared to Black and latino males.

The assumption is that women do not get any societial favorable treatment. Everywhere I go and have been at, women are treated more favorably. From the younger years, females are better treated, better taken care of and not viewed as a threat even when they are cunning and deceiving.

Even in high school, women were better treated. They at least got attention. They received male attention which is what makes a woman feel like a woman. They would feel something wrong if males did not stare and yes gawk at them. They got the whistles or the psss, psss, psss. They got free coffees and burritos.

What have I received as a Mexican male? No burrito, much less no coffee and no psss, psss, psss except for the gay guys at UCLA. I took it as a compliment with a "no hands on" policy. I had to work for my grades even in high school. I had no easy grade, my 3.2 high school gpa was actually earned from 9th to 12 grade. That should have been my B.A. I had extra curricular activities, the helmet hits should have given me the spring semester off. The football grade of A was the most painful grade I have earned. It still hurts, 23 years later. Our helmets did not even have cushion the way they do today.

My high school teachers, never gave me a grade because I didn't have cleavage and had hairy legs. How are White women being left out? They get compliments, are not considered threatening and that alone is a great stress reliever. White women, are fortunate, they get preferences from their male teachers--most of which are White and their teachers--most of which are White too. Their grades are at best social promotions. My wife mentioned arrogant White females complaining about their grades in English at Orange Coast College, because their teachers at Newport Harbor High never gave them true grades. Once held accountable, they complaint and those same White men and White women were sure to hear their complaint out. If you are a Mexican American and you hear the word "illegal alien" by your White professors, don't waste your time complaining because they won't pay attention, academic freedom.

And if White women feel they are persecuted in their college endeavor, I would ask them the following, "Do you have to register for the draft"? I go to the Post Office and see the Selective Service registration cards. "Attention Men: You must register, it is the law". And yes, I was scared when I filled it out in 1987. Adulthood had set in and I do not remember any White female having to register at the post office in Hawthorne.

What more do White women want? The law protects women more even when they instigate. Divorce laws benefit them. Easier grades are given to them. They can at least get free coffee by smiling and never have to spend a dime. Free rides and never have to pay for sex as males do. By the way, sex is just as beneficial to women as to men. Males are not doing females a favor. While Mexican American males generally get left overs even by Mexican American females.

And the end result is the economy of today. White women are surviving the depression much better than males. This is the maleession. When racialized, Mexican American males are living the depression, ask me, I have 2 Masters' from UCLA and am on unemployment. But I see White females go about their merry ways in the places I like. If White males think they have it hard, walk in my shoes or my buddy Ruben who has been unemployed for 9 months.

For you Mexican American females who think White, keep thinking that way, sooner or later you'll wake up and see that you are still taking orders from White or now Black females.

If all you can do is discredit my sayings as rumblings, I know my reality and do not depend on your reaffirmations, like you mattered.

So according to the LA Times article, we Mexican American males are academically quite inferior to White females. Or better said, more stupid.

I would be ahead if I could sell my body for a grade, coffee, marriage or a job which still amounts to working the world's oldest profession.