Genetically, that is. But there’s still something wrong here:
Boys are being taught to strip away the “burdensome armour” of masculinity as schools address misogyny.
Equality advisers say that boys’ emotional growth has been stunted by Covid lockdowns and the rise of toxic influencers such as Andrew Tate. Groups being invited to schools include one that has argued that gender was “not tied to sex organs”.
Consultants said female teachers were reporting sexual or misogynistic comments, such as boys demanding that they go back to the kitchen.
Go back to the kitchen sort of remark is indeed a teaching moment.
But why strip masculinity away? Why do we have this modern idea that femininity should be the norm for men?
Yes, yes, I know, Adrew Tate and all that. But stop with the rhetoric for a moment and think it through.
We do indeed have two sexes – we’re a mammalian species. We do indeed have different strategies about life. We’ve got things that work as such differences after a few hundred thousand years of the species. They must work, we’re the globally dominant species which is success.
There really is a reason why the high school quarterback is the one getting all the blowjobs from the pretty girls, why the fat birds are more likely to have anal herpes. Social status among men, among women, really, really, matters. Note that it’s among, not between. The evaluators of that social status differs across the sexes. That’s just fact.
Why is the modern default that everything male must be made female? Masculine must become feminine?
“Why is the modern default that everything male must be made female? Masculine must become feminine?”
Because the people who propose this levelling down are never going to get any status themselves unless the social games are rigged in their favour?
“fat birds are more likely to have anal herpes”.
Fuck me Tim, did you have to, I’ve just had me breakfast………..
“Why is the modern default that everything male must be made female? Masculine must become feminine?”
I would have thought that anal herpes in girls is making the feminine a bit more masculine.
Because, after turning all the blokes into birds, the whingers can trans into the vacant spot?
Coming soon, the Tim Worstall Diet Advice Book
Read the blog before breakfast as an appetite suppressant.
If you were going out of your way to encourage an entire generation of boys to look up to jug-eared internet grifters like Andrew Tate, lecturing them about their feelings (WHOA WHOA WHOA FEELINGS) is the most efficient way to do it.
The serious answer is because “masculinity” is what female teachers see as causing problems at school: getting into fights, breaking things, doing silly stunts that get them hurt, teasing girls, etc. Girls just work hard and get good results, so they’re seen as the model to emulate.
Andrew: You’ve not met any teenage girls, have you?
We’re doing the inverse Higgins. “Oh why can’t a man be more like a woman”
This toxic feminisation of boys is not going to end well, and not in the direction the teachers think.
My experience of women’s they don’t go a lot on male feminisation. The popularity of Shades of Grey would seem to indicate the same. Alphas still rule.
“But why strip masculinity away? Why do we have this modern idea that femininity should be the norm for men?”
We don’t. This is about Clownworld, which is self-serving, and schools are part of Clownworld. Teachers want boys to be as easy as girls, to make their life easy. They’ll say it’s about making boys better, but that isn’t the truth, and 5 minutes after they leave school, they’ll become normal again.
I really think school is just a broken institution now.
It would be interesting to see the ethnic breakdown of the male pupils by severity of abuse.
My guess is nobody dare even collect that data, let alone publish it.
“boys’ emotional growth has been stunted by Covid lockdowns”
Hmm. Maybe not do that, then?
If feminism isn’t a hateful ideology, then why isn’t it called peoplism?
re: “the tension of the differences”
Pope Francis said something which I found to be very beautiful. Here is a quote:
“I have always distinguished between what is pastoral [ministry] to persons who have different sexual orientations and that which is the ideology of gender. These are two different things,” Francis stated. “The ideology of gender is, at this time, one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. It goes far beyond the sexual.” Because “it dilutes the differences,” he said. “The richness that is of men and women, and of all humanity, is the tension of the differences. It is to grow by means of the tension of the differences. The matter of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all equal. And that goes against the human vocation.”
The rise of people like Andrew Tate and Bo Refec are a response to the attacks on masculinity, they’re not the initiators of “stunted emotional growth”, whatever that means.
Aristotle held that women are defective men. Now, progressives hold that men are defective women. Which view is more likely to lead to social decadence?
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. – John Updike
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsgbz0pFIY
Take a look at the bit where they discuss body-count.
Apologies – wrong podcast. Check out #28 @ the 3 hour mark for the cognitive dissonance regarding body-count.