Gli scolari saranno il bersaglio della strategia britannica contro la violenza contro le donne

Bit of a nothing article, with no concrete plans whatsoever.

Ah, so the attack on school boys is to continue. No attempt the understand why this is happening, no mention of support for the boys to prevent them from being radicalised.

Let’s just put pictures of school boys in the same article that we talk about rapists and murderers because what’s the difference eh? /s

I predict this will make it easier for boys to become disillusioned and feel marginalised and lead to more misogyny not less.

Hmmmmmmmmmm not sure this is smart, sounds like bait too, i call bs

Yeah, keep treating young lads like criminals in waiting before they do anything wrong. That has been working so well up to now.

Andrew Tate 2.0 is right around the corner to accept them for who they are and whisper hatred into their ears.

Domestic violence is a problem that we all acknowledge needs fixing. And simply arresting abusers isn’t preventative measures.  We can also acknowledge that toxic influences is a problem. I’d rather we tried something than nothing. Its not about pointing a finger at boys and telling them that they’re violent rapists in waiting, but what’s wrong with trying to start dialogue, get them questioning what it means to “be a man”. We either try to have meaningful dialogue with these kids or let other figures fill the void. Ask any woman close to you about their worst experiences with dating apps or creepy behavior and they’ve all got a stories.

Not a bad idea, but of course with everything in the education sector, let’s see how long before it goes tits up!

Speaking only on the idea here, it’s a shame the education sector has to step in for the complete and utter lack of masculine identity in the 21st century. It seems that as soon as feminism redefined their own sense of worth and meaning, Men were so uninspired and lazy they couldn’t be arsed following their female counterparts in doing the same thing

I’m not sure it’ll work anyways, because stopping this sense of normalised violence against women is such a large issue that it’s pretty much everywhere you look and a course in how to respect women probably won’t make a dent

Rather than demonising young men, treating them as a problem to be targeted, maybe we could instead focus on building their self worth.

That article is awful, as is the current government’s announcement.

“We’ll make it better.”

“Cool, how you gonna do that?”

“I am out of office until the new year, if it is important please contact my assistant.”

The article then uses extremely inflammatory language in the title, even when it mentions nothing of the sort in the article.

Regardless of all of that, I don’t know if it’s going to help. Teenage boys have been told pretty much all their life that men are the problem, this has led to them feeling isolated from society. The reason why figures like Andrew Tate get the following they do is because they’re the ones saying it’s okay to be a man. Unfortunately what they define as being the best man, and creating aspirations for kids, one can be is abhorrent.

Fundamentally there is still a “lad culture” which if not kept in check can cause lots of issues with mistreating others, not just women but everyone. That’s not to say teenage lads dicking around is bad it’s just we need to make sure it doesn’t go beyond that.

I am skeptical that the government will actually be able to identify and target the problem because it’s such a complex mess. I also think that articles like this one even further singling out schoolboys is not helping, it’s just exacerbating the alienation problem.

It’s good to teach kids about violence and women are often at the receiving end of this on a higher level than men but it happens to men by women too and they’re even less likely to report it. Men are killed the most in general and that is mostly by other men on a much larger scale. The schools should be spreading awareness on all of this, violence against others and reporting, and it should be aimed at boy and girls.

The issue I’ve consistently found with strategies like this is that it lumps everyone in the same category brazenly. The more you stereotype, the more likely it is to happen.

Those who then feel alienated find idiots like Tate or Fuentes, who they can relate to because they’re not saying the things that are constantly repeated to them. And they agree with the 1% of things that they say which make sense. They then think that because those 1% of things are right and reasonable, then the other 99% must also be right and reasonable when it is the complete opposite. That’s how they get radicalised.

I know someone who dated someone who idolised Andrew Tate. He was the biggest knob towards her and the relationship got borderline abusive. She managed to get out in the end and he didn’t even fight it because Tate’s ideology is that you can just find another woman, who cares if she leaves?

I think the true way forward is that we need more intensive lessons for both genders to learn what healthy relationships are, how to treat a partner, how to emotionally regulate, and how to safely leave a toxic relationship – not just summarily blaming men in general for everything a small minority do, but spun a lot more positively in a way that makes it an important focus but not one that is against everyone. And if a young lad is showing red flags, they need a positive male role model in a school environment to have time with them, to make them realise that the things they’re hearing online are bullsh*t.

Usual policy: blame the male gender as a whole, don’t consider reforming our problematic approach to domestic violence, make everything worse for everyone except some well-funded women’s charities