Janice Shaw Crouse is a former speech writer for President George H. W. Bush and is now Senior Fellow for Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute.

At a high school graduation ceremony she attended, Crouse noticed something we have noted at Legal Insurrection: Our society has evolved into a Girl’s Club.

Last week when I attended the graduation ceremonies for a local high school, ironically designated as a “National School of Excellence,” I noted a distressing fact: the ceremony was dominated by females. In a significant omission, the male student body president, a senior, was not identified in the program, nor did he have a role in the ceremony. Instead, six senior girls were prominently listed in the program, marched in with the school dignitaries and participated in the ceremony.

The two faculty class sponsors were both female and all four student class officers were female. All the class officers had roles in the graduation ceremony with several handling more than one responsibility. The class president both welcomed everyone and had remarks. The class vice-president introduced the musical selections. The class secretary introduced the speakers and the treasurer introduced the platform guests. A girl – whose name appeared 5 times in the official program — gave the major student address as the “representative class speaker” an opportunity traditionally granted to the student body president, but apparently not if a guy has that responsibility. Significantly, the principal was the only male participant in the ceremony.

One graduation ceremony is hardly enough to indict a whole society for being anti-male, but the trend against boys and men has become so widespread that numerous books and articles are documenting today’s “sexual disequilibrium” and the harm it is causing boys and men…

Certainly, as I sat at that graduation ceremony, I was very aware that, had the situation been reversed and every role in the ceremony been given to a male, there would have been a hue and cry from every direction. Well, actually, there is no way that would have been allowed to happen; someone would have stepped in to “balance” out the gender representation. Instead, a well-informed source reported that the school administration told the faculty that the male student body president had “received enough recognition during high school” therefore he shouldn’t be given any senior honors or recognition in the graduation ceremony. Ironically, there didn’t seem to be a problem that one of the senior girls was recognized 5 times in the printed program and also gave the major address.