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Teachers Talking About Rise Of Misogyny In Young Boys
Recently, I came across a post on the popular Teachers subreddit that piqued my interest. The post, written by user escrawl and addressed to fellow teachers, was titled, "Have you noticed a rise of misogyny among boys?" "I teach fourth grade, and I'm already seeing it with my boys," escrawl began. "They talk about how women can't be leaders, they don't have to listen to me because I'm a woman, etc. I have boys already following Andrew Tate and other similar influencers. What do you do?" She continued, "I once warned a mom about what a bad influence Andrew Tate could be, and the dad came back at me hard, saying I don't know what I'm talking about." "I'm at a loss," she said. "Do you just leave them be?" "I do not preach my politics to my students," she clarified. "I make it a point to not show where I lean, even when talking about politics in Social Studies. "I brought up the concern up with a parent, not directly to the student. The only thing I push is to be respectful to others. I would also be concerned and address misandry if observed." Other teachers chimed in. "46-year-old man here," one teacher, toddkhamilton, wrote. "When I was teaching in the late 2000s, another male teacher and I noticed the early signs of what has become a very serious situation with this topic." "We taught in a progressive education environment where the administration was very supportive of teacher led initiatives, so we proposed a 'G Day' (guys day) where for an hour and a half each Wednesday (basically lunch and recess), two other male teachers and myself would take the grade 5th-8th grade boys and just kind of hang together. We'd have a topic each week, and then open things up for the boys to ask questions." "It was incredible," toddkhamilton continued. "They'd ask fascinating questions about all sorts of things — people they saw online, situations they were in with girls or at home — and it worked really well. My colleagues and I saw a change in them, especially over the years of doing it." "It worked so well that the administration created the equivalent for the girls, and they felt it was successful too.I left after the third year, but heard they continued it until a head of school who felt it opened us up to liability took over and shut it need healthy men to be able to talk to and share their thoughts with and learn from. Today's male youth seem to only really have toxic men to learn from. Until there are strong positive male voices equally available to them, the toxic bros are setting the agenda." Another male teacher, Leucippus1, wrote, "I have certainly noticed that the algorithm has been pushing overtly misogynistic content to me; I can only imagine what it does to teenage boys." Another user, Jack_of_Spades, replied, "I made one Facebook post that I was feeling sad after a breakup. My feed was flooded with 'the problem with women...' 'real men do___' shit for MONTHS. I'm thinking this AI fed algorithm shit should be illegal.""It should be, yes, wrote user MossSalamander. "A lot of vulnerable people are being radicalized to hate others because of this." "Middle School teacher here," wrote user ImpressiveCoffee3. "The boys watch all of that content, even a lot of the sixth graders. They say they don't take it seriously, but they keep watching it, and watching it, and watching it." "There is also a rise in the idea that they should all be entrepreneurs and not only skip higher education, but refuse to work for someone else. They think they should have 'motion' and that because I am a teacher, I have somehow failed at life because I am paid a salary by an organization." "Glad it isn't just me," wrote teacher lilygirl112; "I heard second grade boys praise Diddy." User poopbucketchallenge chimed in: "I also think these kids are on the internet FAR TOO EARLY and it should be illegal until 18 to access any part of online other than tightly controlled academic and safe-for-work curiosity stuff."Another teacher, _Lost_The_Game, wrote, "From what I remember as a kid, [they're just being] edgy, BUT…eventually it can set in unironically. I remember lots of my classmates starting to say things just to be edgy, and eventually it just became their default state, like how you start saying some phrase or word ironically, and then later it becomes normalized." A male teacher with the username misticspear wrote, "It's easy for me because boys who fall for that don't have a role model who THEY choose and respect, and that's typically my role. I go in hard early. Call Andrew Tate stupid and talk about how he preys on people who don't know any better. Then I lead by example." Replying to escrawl's question about whether she should "leave it be," u/Ranger_242 wrote, "No, you don't leave it be any more than you tolerate racism or other forms of bullying or hate." "If it becomes enough of a problem, start writing referrals and get your union involved. As for parents, make it clear to them as well."High school teacher Helen_Cheddar wrote back, "Unfortunately, misogyny is a lot more socially acceptable than other forms of bigotry. I had my FEMALE principal brush it aside when I brought it up, and she essentially said, 'boys will be boys.'" "I see it in some of my first graders," wrote teacher nochickflickmoments, "especially in boys whose dads are clear with me that they voted for Trump. Or when one of the first graders told me 'that women shouldn't be president.'" User Major-Platypus2092 wrote, "I've noticed this quite a bit. I'm one of the only male teachers in my department, and students will often look to me to validate their Andrew Tate bullshit. I've tried correcting them in various different ways, but usually what happens is they just decide I'm a 'simp' or whatever and not worth listening to. I've broken through a few times, but it's pretty horrifying." u/Brothless_Ramen wrote, "Yeah, it's pretty great how quickly a man instantly isn't a man because he doesn't buy into their garbage, it makes it so hard to pull them out. It's like they think there's this global conspiracy where all women and some men are personally against them and trying to make them fail algebra, and if you question that, you're part of the conspiracy." "My daughter just finished fifth grade, and after the election, she had several boys saying things like 'your body, my choice,' which is kind of horrifying," said user -dudess. User BugMillionaire wrote, "It's because the algorithms are designed to feed young boys alt-right/misogyny content. There have been many studies showing how the algorithm changes depending on age and gender, and how hard it is to deviate away from the alt-right info once you get it." "Yes," u/CharmingAmoeba3330 wrote in response, "This is what I was going to say. I saw a post the other day from a doctor and team who have been studying the growing misogyny in young boys. They said they found that if a kid, 17 or younger, made a TikTok account, within the first 17 seconds they would be pushed alt-right/misogyny content." "I also saw another post about the uptick of young teen boys murdering teen girls in the UK." "It's not just the boys," u/Sad-Biscotti-3034 wrote. " I teach senior girls in my government class who truly think that women should never run for office and claim they'd gladly give up their voting rights if they didn't have to work and could be homemakers." "Yes, I live in a very red county. It's scary because many of them are voting age, and I can only teach them so much in the amount of time I have with them." This behavior is so concerning, I want to hear what you have to say. Tell me all your opinions and first-hand stories in the comments — especially if you're a teacher, parent, or student. This is a necessary discussion to have!
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
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SEC lookahead: Is a young Georgia still a dangerous Georgia?
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart looks on during the first quarter of the spring G Day game at Sanford Stadium in April. (Photo by) ATLANTA — At SEC Media Days this week, Texas is the story. (Well, aside from the rumor that Nick Saban is returning to coaching. But that's just a rumor. For now.) Texas as a program is the likely preseason favorite to win the SEC, and Arch Manning is the week's most anticipated student-athlete participant. Burnt orange is doing its best to smother the SEC. Kirby Smart and Georgia would like a word. Advertisement Georgia is now two-plus years removed from its last national championship, which in the Kirby Smart era qualifies as a Saharan dry spell. The Dawgs missed out on the final four-team playoff after the 2023 season, and fell to Notre Dame in the quarterfinals of last year's expanded CFP after losing starting quarterback Carson Beck to injury. So Georgia has something to prove, but it will have to do so with a class that has zero familiarity with winning national championships. 'Our team is going to be comprised of 54 percent first- and second-year players,' Smart said. 'The COVID class (with an extra year of eligibility) has kind of aged out, so we had multiple players that were in their fifth and sixth year last year, especially across the offensive and defensive lines.' Naturally, Smart is spinning that youthfulness into a positive, noting that the extremely young class brings 'youthful exuberance' to Athens. Advertisement 'I think the biggest thing that separates college football teams today is complacency among players versus fire, passion and energy among players,' he said. 'Our players need to bring juice and energy each and every day. If they don't, they'll be confronted by the players that do.' One of those newcomers: quarterback Gunner Stockton, who was pressed into emergency service late last year but now has the starting job outright. 'He's the kind of kid you want at the front of the line, and he leads from the front,' Smart said. 'He's going to be a big part of our program this year in leadership.' Smart hinted at the Georgia program's largest question mark — the offensive and defensive lines — and later in his press conference on Tuesday indicated why there might not be a quick fix if the team starts slow in its effort to develop its younger players. 'You don't speed up development,' he said. 'If you want to speed up development, then you're probably looking for shortcuts that don't exist. You want to develop somebody. It takes time. It takes reps. We can't replicate reps faster. We can't speed up a guy's transition.' With Carson Beck off to Miami, the Bulldogs will pin their hopes on Gunner Stockton at quarterback. () (Todd Kirkland via Getty Images) In other words, Georgia won't have much time to get those youthfully exuberant players up to Smart's standards. The Bulldogs will begin the season with two non-conference games to provide them a little bit of a buffer before diving full-fledged into its SEC schedule, which begins with Tennessee and Alabama and runs right on through that date with Texas in mid-November. (Smart didn't say it, but we will: the Dawgs beat Texas twice last season. Just so everyone remembers.) Advertisement On the plus side, while Georgia's 2025 schedule is a brutal one, it breaks very much in the Dawgs' favor — the two marquee games, Texas and Alabama, will both kick off between the hedges at Sanford Stadium. Georgia will need to go on the road to face Tennessee and Auburn, and neutral-site trap games against Florida and Georgia Tech also loom, but having a home crowd behind them for the two biggest games of the season will be immensely valuable. Smart remains one of the sharper observers of the college football condition, though obviously with a pro-coaching bias. He sees a way through college football's current travails, and to him, it's all about having the right people in the right places. 'College athletics and college football is not broken,' Smart said. 'I would say that it's in a time of change and influx, that … you have to navigate better than your competitor, whether that's conference to conference or within your own conference. We continue to find ways to do that at the University of Georgia. We sell relationships over transactions. We think the relationship still wins out because the relationship allows you to push people and demand excellence, and we're going to continue to do that at Georgia.' It's worked out pretty well so far.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Georgia football makes major move for nation's No. 1 recruit
The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to elite quarterback recruit Elijah Haven. Haven attended a camp at UGA and impressed the Georgia coaching staff. Haven, a rising junior, is a member of the class of 2027. Haven is the top-ranked recruit in the class of 2027, according to 247Sports. In the 247Sports Composite, he is ranked as a five-star recruit and the top quarterback in the country. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound quarterback plays high school football for the Dunham School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Haven plays football right in the LSU Tigers' backyard, so it may be tough to lure the talented quarterback away from the Tigers. Ryan Puglisi of the Georgia Bulldogs drops back to pass during the spring G Day game "After a great camp and conversation with Coach Bobo, I am proud to say I have been offered a scholarship by the University of Georgia!" Haven said via social media. Advertisement Another interesting factor for Georgia in the class of 2027 is that the Dawgs already have a commitment from five-star quarterback Jared Curtis. However, we'll wait until December to see if Georgia signs Curtis. Haven is a good athlete and also plays high school basketball. This year, he has received scholarship offers from Jackson State, Duke, Florida State and Houston. The talented passer was named as the 2024 MaxPreps National Sophomore of the Year. As a sophomore, he completed over 60% of his passes and threw for 37 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Haven is mobile. He ran for 925 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns during this spectacular 2024 season as well. Haven helped Dunham School advance all the way to the state championship as a sophomore. This article originally appeared on UGA Wire: Georgia Bulldogs make major move for nation's top quarterback recruit
