After a broad survey of what feminist academics and teachers say about toxic, misogynistic schoolboys, Janice Fiamengo makes the comment:
‘If ever a case were to be made for all-male schools and all-male teaching staff, this document (by feminists) could be a primary exhibit.‘
I’ve been saying for years that boys need men to teach them. Not just any men, but manly men with a high sense of what it means to be a respectful, self-disciplined, self-sufficient man.
Once schools could tolerate females teaching boys, but that was when there were male teachers who could intervene when boys stepped out of line with female teachers. That is no longer the case. The education system has driven men out of the sector, leaving women – particularly young women – defenseless against restless boys.
The best teachers I had were men that were tough but fair.
It’s delusional to think that boys will respect teachers who constantly wagged their ideological fingers at them.
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Feminist teaching encourages boys as young as 11 years old to hate themselves (and women)
Reports from the UK and Australia reveal anti-male bias and boys’ resistance
Janice Fiamengo, Sep 29, 2024
For years, feminists in the English-speaking school systems have done everything they can to psychologically destroy a generation of boys, calling their masculinity “problematic,” “hegemonic” and “toxic.”
At their least malign, feminist teachers have made it clear to boys that their perspectives and experiences aren’t as important as those of girls. Many businesses and organizations support programs aimed at girls’ academic success; there are no equivalent programs for boys. When study after study shows boys lagging behind girls in school, many feminists don’t even pretend to care, blaming the boys, as did Australian feminist Jane Caro, for their alleged privilege. Such ideologues continue to call for more feminist teaching, and moreover take direct aim at schoolboys’ maleness in what scholar Paul Nathanson has identified as a form of identity harassment, a pervasive psychological assault that creates doubt, shame, and alienation.
Under the feminist model, boys learn from a young age that their sex is responsible for violence and other serious harms, and that they must take personal responsibility for it. A few years ago, it came to light that the female principal of an Australian school thought it a good idea to hold an assembly in which the boys were to apologize for male misbehavior to the girl next to them. Naturally, no girls are ever expected to apologize to boys for the misdeeds of the female sex.
Calls regularly circulate, as in the West Australian’s “How We Stop This Kid Becoming a Monster,” for teaching to address the problem of predatory masculinity. Unless the feminist deprogrammers can get to work in the early years, we’re told, the boys will succumb to their inner monster. Boys learn that they can hurt girls and women even without meaning to, just by looking at them or holding traditional views. As we’ll see, any boy who objects to his own vilification will learn that objecting itself is a technique of domination.
Teaching Toxic Masculinity
A recent report on UK schools provided a glimpse into what feminist instruction looks like, revealing that terms such as “hegemonic masculinity” and “toxic masculinity,” until a decade ago part of the radical feminist fringe, are now in the mainstream of pedagogy even in the lower grades.
The Family Education Trust surveyed materials used by UK schools in their sex education classes. Out of 197 schools that responded to a request for information (more than 100 did not respond), 62 schools confirmed that they were teaching about toxic masculinity. 10 schools even admitted to teaching that “men and boys possess traits that are inherently toxic and negative for society.” (One would be relieved to hear that the principals of such schools and all participating teachers were immediately sanctioned, or at least told to stop such claptrap—but of course such has not occurred.)