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If women are really treated as badly in America as feminists say they are, why do they seem so … privileged? That's the question posed by Toni Airaksinen, a student at women's college Barnard, which is affiliated with Columbia University. Airaksinen writes in Quillette, a magazine that promotes "free thought," that her Barnard peers often "display conspiratorial glee when they make fun of and delegitimize men's issues" such as academic underachievement, to say nothing of male-heavy psychological problems and social ills. She was "seduced by feminist ideology" when she started taking women's studies classes, but "real life taught me" that men suffer more than women in many ways – much higher rates of suicide, schizophrenia, autism and alcoholism, not to mention incarceration. Read More |