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Headline says masculinity and then goes on about misogyny. Why are they trying to make them the same thing?

Masculinity crisis at school: this is how it affects women

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Glad it’s finally being talked about, now that the victims are also teachers. If only they listened earlier when the victims were ‘only’ kids.

There needs to be more equity in teaching rolls. Where are the screams for equality when it comes to the female to male teacher imbalance?

Who knew demonising men in every form of literature and media would lead to predatory individuals taking advantage and causing long lasting damage…

I don’t think I’ve heard the phrase positive masculinity mentioned once and it’s a damn shame.

I’m really lucky really, I’ve got a 16 year old son and sometimes worry he’s not masculine enough. Like he’s a really kind, soft, gentle kid. Into dressing up and playing pretend, loves nothing more than wearing a suit and a top hat, is popular amongst a nice mixed group of lovely nerds.

Doesn’t seem to see gender or race or sexual orientation.

He’s a really nice boy.

Then I think back to me when I was 16, taking drugs, joy riding cars, chasing pussy with an almost single minded focus, or my friends kids involved in all sorts of aggression and dangerous behaviour.

From my personal anecdotal experience, the pendulum has swung away from the whole toxic masculinity thing with the next generation, but I guess my experience is a pretty niche one according to this. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I remember saying 12 years ago on this website that we need to focus more on boys and take their concerns seriously otherwise we will lose them. 

I was met with sarcastic comments ‘oh won’t someone think of the men’.

Then we got Trump.

Address boys concerns seriously or the same thing will happen in the UK. 

There’s a complete lack of empathy when it comes to dealing with men’s issues which is why feminism is being completely dismissed and young boys are gravitating to the manosphere.

I can see from this thread not much has changed in 12 years and the lessons haven’t been learned.

But isn’t there a difference between misogyny and aggressive behaviour of unruly students? Ones a knowing sustained hatred against women, the other is lashing out at the authority in charge.

Calling a teacher a “slag”. Replace it with a male teacher who’ll no doubt get threatened with getting his head kicked in. What’s the breakdown of aggressive girls who no doubt use the same language against female teachers?

Is it boys vs women or boys vs teachers? Is it being disrespectful to a gender specific or a wider disrespect in general.

Article says 70% of teachers are female. They’re going to get personal abuse from students. If you then breakdown the types/style of the abuse used and frame it you can paint any picture you want. But because of the high level of women in teaching its seems to be a picture of boys hating women.

I thought that the biggest threat to women were trans females going for a pee…

It’s strange because this was happening back in school when I was a kid in the 90s, but when boys were constantly targeted by female teachers, female teaching assistants who’d then go on to spread their man and boy hating attitudes to the mothers of daughters in the school, which then reinforces to young girls that it’s fine to target boys.

As a kid and teenager I watched how lots of girls caused trouble and never got into trouble, and when as I mentioned you have this current boy and man hating pipeline of attitudes in schools, you turn the boys sexist when you use it against them. I watched as every female teacher turned blame onto the boys because “girls are never wrong, girls can’t don’t wrong” attitude.

As a seven year old boy It was extremely obvious that girls are absolutely treated differently to boys, and then we wonder why some turn out “sexist” when a system they’ve only ever knew treated them as the sexist problem.

Getting older was learning a lot of these teachers, who were married or had children to abusive men, decided to outlet their anger and hate on young boys, I remember how these teachers would try and use public humiliation rituals on boys. So yeah.

Andrew Tate and these right wing grifters are a part of the problem, yes. But honestly this problem has existed well longer than before Tate’s fame. The problem is the system, not the male children who are abused by it.

Just force them all to watch Adolescence on repeat. Job done eh.