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‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Teachers describe a deterioration in behaviour and attitudes that has proved to be fertile terrain for misogynistic influencers

“As soon as I mention feminism, you can feel the shift in the room; they’re shuffling in their seats.” Mike Nicholson holds workshops with teenage boys about the challenges of impending manhood. Standing up for the sisterhood, it seems, is the last thing on their minds.

When Nicholson says he is a feminist himself, “I can see them look at me, like, ‘I used to like you.’”

Once Nicholson, whose programme is called Progressive Masculinity, unpacks the fact that feminism means equal rights and opportunities for women, many of the boys with whom he works are won over.

“A lot of it is bred from misunderstanding and how the word is smeared,” he says.

But he is battling against what he calls a “dominance-based model” of masculinity. “These old-fashioned, regressive ideas are having a renaissance, through your masculinity influencers – your grifters, like Andrew Tate.”

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I appreciate it and I apologize for snapping at you. Like two days ago someone called me abusive for the "crime" of letting my daughter be a girl scout and I'm still a little touchy.

Also, to clarify, homeschooling and online schooling are very different. Homeschooling is where the parent is the teacher. I help her learn, mostly by keeping her focused and explaining things to her when she has trouble understanding, but I am not her teacher. She has live video classes with licensed teachers every day and her assignments are graded by those same teachers who also make themselves available to kids when class is not in session. And because it's a state school (although contracted out to a private company), it has to adhere to state education standards and there is no religious bullshit.

She does have friends who are homeschooled because she is part of a social group for kids who are not being traditionally schooled, but I think that's usually a terrible idea. Unless you have a teaching degree, you really don't know anything about pedagogy. It's too early to tell how those children will do once they're adults, but considering I have heard the same stories, I have the same concerns.

What's really bad here in Indiana is that you don't have to tell the state you're taking your kid out of school or prove that your kid is getting legitimately schooled. My daughter had a friend (he recently moved away) whose parents just left him at the library all day to fend for himself and had him use Khan Academy and called it his school. I felt so sorry for that kid. At least everyone who worked at the library knew him and looked out for him.