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Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK's classrooms, according to teachers.

More than 5,800 teachers were polled... and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils' behaviour.

One teacher said she'd had 10-year-old boys "refuse to speak to [her]...because [she is] a woman". Another said "the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as 'masculine'".

"There is an urgent need for concerted action... to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists."

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

can you blame boys for aspiring to this

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So? You get a F, you get a F, you get a F...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

when i was in school, for that i’d get sent to the principals office, then suspended, and if i kept it up, expelled….

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I can really recommend the mini series Adolesence on Netflix (or wherever) to get a great, dramatized example of how this effect looks like.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We're in for a very, very stupid future.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only good think andrew tate has said is to work on building yourself and work hard. Beyond that, his talking points do more damage to society and bring a lot of harm.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Sometimes I wonder if the Internet should only be allowed for people 21 or 25 years or older.

21 is the new 16... 25 is the new 21.

But... At the same time older adults are extremely dumb too.

But giving a young person access to the Internet is like letting them walk NYC alone at night during the 70s.

Ever since Facebook and 9/11 the Internet has been kind of awful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is that parents - apparently - have no interest in educating their children anymore. They just place their kids in front of a PC or give them an iPad so they can watch TV or something.

Forbidding people from accessing the internet is going to raise a generation of children unfamiliar with it and then drifting off completely. Just look at the NK soldiers when they were shipped to russia and first had access to the internet. Half of them became porn addicts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And also educating themselves. The kids will learn stuff, including slang, memes and concepts that are unknown to parents that don't spend as much time on these platforms. So they won't even recognize problematic ideas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, because they think "I'm too old I don't understand that anyways.". That's what my grandmother says when she needs her PC fixed, "I'm too old I don't have to know that." - well, guess what, if you call me every week for a problem that you could've fixed yourself by googling 3 minutes, it's probably not a bad idea to learn it.

Parents are responsible for their kids, and they should be learning what their child is doing and understanding it so they can intervene if shit goes south.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem is unfettered access, not access at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Forums with paywalls have always been way more civil so I agree.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Then BEAT THEM SENSELESS AND REMOVE THEIR SCREENS

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In 10 years, it seems we not only gave up our own nations’ dreams of equality and union, but lustfully decided to lick the boots of those telling us our dreams aren’t worth having. It doesn’t help that the self-proclaimed “leader of the free world” is a known rapist who cuts deals with the Taliban at the expense of women’s liberties.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I remember in the first few years after 9/11 when you had Islamophobes talking about Islamic radicalism and comparing western culture to Islamic culture in what was, retrospectively, the most arrogant and extremely naieve view imaginable. Basically envisioning the entirety of the west in the late 90s and early 2000s as the west always being like that and the then status quo was done via some philosophical debate and innate characteristics instead of whatever was politically and economically convenient at the time.

I wonder where those people are today? Seeing just how legit fragile their whole order really was and how quickly it is unraveling.

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