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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/04/masculinity-crisis-brewing-uk-schools-teachers-union
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Laut Gewerkschaft braut sich in britischen Schulen eine „Männlichkeitskrise“ zusammen | Schulen | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/04/masculinity-crisis-brewing-uk-schools-teachers-union
Von prisongovernor
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Headline says masculinity and then goes on about misogyny. Why are they trying to make them the same thing?
As is usual the focus is never on how to bring boys up healthy and well adjusted, but simply how to crisis manage this scourge of kids saying stupid things and being dumbasses as though they’re all proto-sex offenders. Then we’ll wring our hands and wonder why more and more boys feel demonised and excluded. Strategies to improve their behaviour and attitudes needs to focus on them.
Masculinity crisis at school: this is how it affects women
Classic Guardian
Do you think telling boys to continually centre the female experience might be the issue?
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.
Nothing to do with the Guardian spending the last decade talking about toxic masculinity I suppose.
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?
As a current teacher, former boy…
No there isn’t.
I was a stupid little cunt. We all were. Boys say and do stupid things. We learn fromour mistakes.
This ‚toxic masculinity‘ label needs to stop… Unless we also label feminism toxic.
Polarisation is the problem. Men being masculine is not a problem at all.
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. 🤷🏽♂️
„The 5,000-strong poll by the NASUWT teachers’ union tracked a rising trend in misogyny directed at female teachers in recent years, from 17.4% in 2023, climbing to 19.5% in 2024, 22.2% in 2025, rising to 23.4% this year.“
Almost a quarter of female teachers get abused now and the sub’s response is to downvote it to oblivion. Classic reddit moment.
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.
Masculinity =/= Misogyny
Masculinity is being a gentlemen, something we are actually lacking in society.
There’s always a masculinity crisis. You can read articles from every decade of the past 2 centuries claiming the same thing.
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.
Lads, know that you are expendable. We were raised to see ‚Man up‘ as a bad thing when it’s exactly what they’ve been telling us to do the whole time.
Just force them all to watch Adolescence on repeat. Job done eh.
Remember how, before we lost our minds and listened to the lunacy of critical theory, we didn’t focus on alloting people arbitrary and unrealistic categories and destroying everything but those categories? Yeah.
At the school I worked at, myself and other colleagues spent months bombarding the Head Teacher that we needed an all-boys assembly on the „manosphere“ and „alpha male“ rhetoric and he repeatedly shot it down. Apparently a weekly assembly on Christian values was more important. He didn’t even have a clue what we were talking about.
Families need to be supported and educated. Institutions cannot make up for unwell families. That is treating the symptom not the disease.
There’s also women who’ve grown up with the attitude that unless men make a certain amount of money, and pay for everything, they’re not worthy.
When did this materialistic and hollow attitude start?