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View submission: Boys Education and Feminism
Why now? That’s probably a confluence of things.
1. Men’s issues are getting more attention and traction both positive and negative. These problems have been likely in process for a long time.
2. The proportion of male to female teachers has tilted badly in recent years, not that it hasn’t been since the 70s but it seems accelerated. I counted the other day, including administration there are only six males in the school to 85 females at my kids school.
3. Political talking points. Whether you agree or not this has become a political issue and we did just have an election in the US.
4. Feminism has become something of a brainwashing / social currency among teachers. We have a very good teacher friend who entered the system middle of the road but over the course of many years has been dragged into a full blown far-left hole by her environment. Everything is now either the fault of Donald Trump, MAGA people or the patriarchy. She’s used feminist and ‘woke’ language to describe her students, she’s talked about how bad men in general are, she uses terms like ‘mediocre white boy syndrome’, she uses her birthing their children as a trump card and ‘gotcha’ for any and all arguments, criticism or counterpoints against her husband. And she’s very, very typical of a current teacher. We are in a deep red state and she’s in a very conservative school district.
5. And probably many more things..
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