Frauenfeindlichkeit unter männlichen Schülern sei eine „tickende Zeitbombe“ an britischen Schulen, warnt die Gewerkschaft

Can we stop demonising young men please and forcing them toward more extreme role models?

More men in the classroom needed too so kids have a positive male authority figure.

Tell an impressionable child they’re the devil too often, and they just might become exactly that.

If you have any friends or family who are teachers you have known this was coming a long time. I have heard some absolute horror stories.

i wonder what religion do majority of them follow?

Comments here proving this goes beyond male pupils.

I absolutely blame parents for that. Or (to be precise) a society evolving too fast for our societal/parental norms to adjust.

Quit gaslighting boys and men…tired of these lies and hit pieces. 

I can’t remember the last time I heard anything related to masculinity and it being a good thing. It’s only negative.

Just like racism, this is a problem that has „inexplicably“ gotten worse over the last 15-20 years of the entire culture deciding that these issues are the no.1 priority in every aspect of life.

I know the solution, let’s stamp down harder.

My take:

First; There isn’t anything inherently toxic about masculinity, there are traits which CAN be toxic-or they can not be. It’s all about intensity.

Being competitive or trying to take charge can be good…but they can also be bad. It depends on the person, the situation and so on (e.g assuming by you should be in charge and deferred to automatically despite others having just as much knowledge and skill as you)….and how much they try to apply their views onto others. (And example is my wife has been watching MAFS and there was a guy saying his wife is too masculine because she has a career and he as a man should be the dominant one in the relationship), I’d personally not put that down to his masculinity but rather say he was a C-word…but I can see that belief would be more prevalent in men

Men and women can both show these toxic traits—-it might be possible that men show some traits more than women (and vice versa) due to either inherent differences or socialisation (but both sexes have all of the traits- the different within sex is greater than between sexes as always)

Now- it makes sense that these ‘toxic traits’ more associated with masculinity be labelled as ‘toxic masculinity’ and be tackled but the label and the discussion causes problems due to it being a compound adjective which ends up with the idea of ‘toxicity’ being applied to much of masculinity rather than just the ‘toxic bits’

It’s possible that we want to prioritise changing ‘toxic masculinity’ because it’s more prevalent or more damaging than ‘toxic femininity’—either in prevalence or impact

Humans are complicated both as individuals and in groups, even if people mean positive things by tackling toxic masculinity they can do it in a haphazard or hamfisted way which makes some parts of the situation better and others worse

What’s important is teaching young people (male and female) to identify ‘toxic’ elements in their own behaviour- how to spot those exploiting their weaknesses and how to self-improve…..but that’s a lot to put on schools, it needs to start at home. However we have flawed people (as we all are) raising more flawed people and stuff like ubiquity of social media and influencers isn’t going to help

My partner is a teacher. There are students who will not listen to her simply because she’s a woman. There’s not really a mechanism to deal with that.