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

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.”

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    All I see is a whole lot of pandering toward people who don’t like feminism because they don’t want to admit men are largely responsible for a lot of problems in the world.

    And I’m sure some of you dumbasses will prove my point by trying to argue with me about it in the comments. I’m not gonna capitulate to the same people who largely ruined life for everyone for thr existence of our species just so women can get the rights they were entitled to in the first place, nor will I give you the fight that you.

    Yes, you probably did find the feminazi they’re denigrating. I don’t care. Those feminazis are right.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Dumbass #1 proving me right ☝️

        See how he only responds with an insult hoping to goad me into a shit fight? This is what men do when anyone tells them the truth about how they really are. Because men are the problem and they know it.

        Watch him continue down here 👇

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Cis white man reporting for duty. Let me explain for OP since you’ll actually believe me.

      Lemmy user… you are a fraud. You espouse phony progressive bullshit. You can’t give a fuck about black people, gays, trans kids, Gaza or any other oppressed people, while you turn a blind eye to the oppression of others.

      Women are oppressed. They always have been.

      If you can understand black communities are still living under the inequality in capitalism created by slavery, then cut the shit. Women too make less than the majority class. Women too are generations of wealth behind the majority class. Women too are still fighting for real equality in the courtroom while their freedoms backslip to our capitalist overlords, as I see you call them on here daily.

      “I don’t say the n word, care who you marry etc” but I get defensive at hearing men are responsible for the status quo.

      Man y’all are dumb as fuck. Explain to me which decision for the last 5000 years were made by women. Which started wars? Which stripped rights from minorities?

      Shut the fuck up you whiney bitches. (B word is sexist, but I’m a toxic masculine Xennial doing his best.) If you don’t want to hear it, kill yourself, because it’s reality. Men have ruled the world. It’s difficult to give away your power and privilege to the oppressed. Tough shit. Women have it fucking hard. I don’t worry that any man around me can and may rape and kill me. That statistically my partner or friend will be the one to do it.

      I hate you Lemmy. You talk shit about Tate and these shit eaters, but you downvote when you find your own reflection in the harsh truth of the world.