For at least twenty years now I've known that boys are falling behind girls at every stage of their schooling and it's been on the back of my mind probably the whole time. Sometimes I get obsessed with it and I find it really depressing. Not much is being done about it and it is not being discussed in mainstream TV.

There's nobody in real life I can talk about this with as it's embarrassing to talk about. Maybe a therapist.

Sometimes I look at these articles about the gender education gap and it reads as though my gender is inferior, so it's depressing for that reason.

Sometimes I get depressed because I feel if I did talk about this people would mock me because they don't see men's problems as being significant compared to women's problems. I imagine sarcasatic replies like "oh boohooo"

Other times I get depressed and angry because I wonder if there is maybe a gender bias in the way schools operate. I'm not an education expert so idk. It's hard to think of boys perhaps being discriminated against.

Anyway, I think the first step would be if society took this seriously, and there was a name for it. We talk about the Gender Pay Gap so why not the Gender Education Gap? If they acknowledged this problem that would help a lot.

A lot of my depression is from the fact that I don't feel this issue is taken seriously at all, and that men are not particularly valued in today's society. I get that there is male privilege, but there is also male disadvantage, and it's not just in schooling.