Annoying article of the day

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has a pretty fucking warped article up right now at MSNBC, Where the men aren’t.
Reynolds says that the real problem with diversity on college campuses is the “dwindling” number of male students. Uh huh.

I looked at some possible answers to this question in a column over at TechCentralStation today, but I continue to wonder why nobody is paying much attention to this issue. Perhaps men lack the sort of identity-politics lobby groups that women and minorities do.
You certainly don’t see much in the way of “Men’s Studies” and “Men’s Centers” to match the Women’s Studies and Women’s Centers that you see on most college campuses these days.
Will we see that change, as men become a minority on university campuses?
My guess is yes, and that’s because — at least according to a recent New York Times report that’s gotten a lot of attention (including commentaries by Richard Posner and Gary Becker), college-educated women are increasingly abandoning their careers for full-time motherhood. Many people doubt whether this is happening to the degree suggested by the Times, and “trend” stories like this should always be taken with a grain of salt, but to the extent it’s true it puts colleges in a bind: Where are their rich alumni to come from in the future, if men don’t attend and women don’t go on to become high-earners?

I see. So colleges should be trying to recruit more men because women are just going to be moms anyway and therefore financially useless?
How many ways can this logic go wrong?

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