Online influencers such as Andrew Tate are fuelling an increase in sexism in the classroom, says a new survey from education union the NASUWT. It comes after the Netflix series Adolescence thrust concerns around incel culture into the spotlight.

Summary

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.”

  • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I read a VN where aliens were asked to intervene, and solve the problem of humans being evil.

    The main idea behind the aliens is that emotion is literally toxic to them. If you persistently shout at one in anger, the alien can actually die.

    After some major periods of civil unrest, half of humanity started to advocate a symbiotic relationship with the aliens. They’re inserted into a human subject, replacing most of their biological functions, but also adding the weakness to strong emotion.

    You can see how people bound to an alien wouldn’t support Tate. Tate wants to spread hatred, or strong feelings of superiority, but those feelings could actually hurt someone bound to an alien. Therefore, people bound to aliens would rather exile or imprison Tate instead to end the threat he poses to their health.

    Amusingly, the alien people get so powerful in the VN that Tate and a bunch of supremacists who hate him have to work together so they don’t get wiped out.