Counterpoint: Who cares?

According to predictions from the Department of Education, this is the year women will outnumber men 3 to 2 in college enrollment.

Oh, the horror.

It doesn't stop there. Women get better grades. Women graduate more and faster. Women earn more honors. It's terrifying. I'm terrified.

Except, I'm not.

Women outperforming men in college is so laughably un-scary that I am literally laughing as I type this, mirth-fueled spittle flecking my computer screen.

I'm not scared because I actually trust universities to evaluate students. And I think that women are often better students than men.

Studies show women are more interested in their majors, more studious, and involved with more extracurricular activities. Their success in school goes well beyond their supposed ability to handle talking-oriented classes better than men. There are several reasons I don't see lecture classes as a real problem in universities.

First, it seems to me lecture classes are on the decline in favor of small group discussions, online courses, and courses that incorporate multimedia. Men should be having an easier time than ever—certainly easier than during times when lecturers stood at the front of the room and didn't look up from their notes. Those times aren't behind us entirely, but education is getting more participatory.

It's not as though women are being handed an education. All of us have to go through a learning-how-to-learn process several times in our lives. I don't believe women naturally know how to succeed in school.

Most subjects in college require a focus on language. Yes, some content can be taught through images or movement, but not all. And most problems in the adult world can't be solved through physical activities or multimedia learning.

If you can't learn by talking out the topic with others, then, male or female, you aren't going to succeed in college. It isn't discrimination toward men. It's a reflection of how deeply entrenched we are in language as a way of learning, teaching, and communicating.

But let's take a step back here. Women having more success in college seems huge to most of us. We're in college.

But success in the real world? I'd give it about a C. Maybe something like, I don't know, 77 percent. That was the wage gap in 2006. Women earned 77 percent of what men made.

So why is it a big deal that there are more women in college? What's the worst that could happen—they start making as much money as men?