Lie Like We do, Children
And in classroom surrealism news:
A primary school has held up a trans man as a positive example of masculinity in teaching materials for its pupils. Streatham Wells School, in south-west London, said Elliot Page, the Canadian actor who medically transitioned with cross-sex hormones along with gender surgery and now identifies as a man, showed that masculinity “can mean softness and strength.”
The school used the example of Page, along with the singer Harry Styles, to show children how men can be multi-dimensional.
In an article for the online newsletter Teachwire, Sarah Wordlaw, the head teacher… wrote: “It is important to teach pupils about harmful stereotypes about masculinity… It is extremely important to teach about positive masculinities.”
Because a mentally ill, self-harming woman, one seemingly forever on the verge of tears, is now a “positive example of masculinity.” A role model for primary-school children.
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Next week: cutting!
So the kids will learn never to trust teachers…
Well, I’m inclined to wonder what will happen when one of the children raises the obvious objection – i.e., that Ms Page is not, in fact, a man. Given the presumption of the teachers, the ideological overreach and casual arrogance, I’m not expecting much room for realism, or honesty.
Trusting government employees is always dangerous, think of COVID-19, Climate madness and your local school or university.
In other school news, in Brazil a university janitor and paper pusher are nicked for “social racism” because in Brazil apparently “troon” is now a race. I can’t help but think that these bozos would be less likely to be “mis”gendered if they made half an effort actually to look like what they pretend to be.
See also this, also from Brazil, where a sales clerk was saved from charges by CTV.
The typical way things go seems to be that teachers, full of the idiocies of the present day, attempt to impart these upon children at school, who in turn conclude that the teachers imparting idiocies upon them are idiots, and that education in general is nonsense, and who react to their education in a completely different way to which their teachers expect.
So, one wonders, what will be the cultural reaction to the present bunch of kids to this present-day idiocy?
The next few decades are going to be a *wild* ride.
“Computer, end programme”
And then there’s the small matter of what will happen when a parent objects to their child being taught to lie – and being subjected to what one might call ideological molestation.
I expect Chaz Bono would have been a more representative FAKE man …
Not a bad thing. I learned. Never early enough tho.
They’re dismissed outright and, should they persist, subjected to arrest & prosecution. At least that’s how it seems to work in much of the United States.
BTW, ‘ideological molestation’ has to be the most succinct description of the phenomenon I’ve encountered.
Muslim parents will love this.
And not in fact men.
Note that they pick two…two entertainment persons. Fake personality people. Because the administrators, and apparently anyone sending their childrento such a school, have zero appreciation for the kind of man who can actually *do* anything useful. The future for these children cannot be very promising. As prophesied in the Book of Idiocracy.
This happens concurrently with women asking where men are hiding, and why they have “retreated from masculinity“.
The lack of self-awareness would be amusing if it weren’t so sad.
[ Wafts smell of freshly-baked rhubarb crumble. ]
[ Suggestively peels lid from tub of custard. ]
As a sweaty teenager, I didn’t respond well to teachers who presumed their role was to engage in some politically loaded social engineering project.
And it seems to me that if your small children are in a school whose head teacher witters on about the importance of “acknowledging intersectionality,” who thinks the job of primary school teachers is to “undo the deeply ingrained gender stereotypes in our society,” rather than, say, imparting competence in arithmetic and basic grammar, and whose idea of “positive masculinity” is a mentally ill, self-harming woman, then… maybe it’s time to find a more functional school.
One whose teachers know their place.
Everyday misandry – Mr. Webb weighs in.
Just read that for the first time and, on first reading, she almost gets it. There are some thoughts on that page that do hint at realization, but she doesn’t ever get into the real why of so many men’s avoidance of relationships.
I mean she starts with the idea that she “knows” what “cis straight men” want based on her work at Playboy. Really? Really?
I’m going to have to go back and give it another read or two.
Previous generations of 11-12 year old boys were inspired by stories of explorers and astronauts,but since that might discourage girls, the frontiers boys are now encouraged to explore are frontiers of perversion and self-sterilization, with middle-aged role models who had a brief moment as youth icons before these boys were born. What could be the appeal of Andrew Tate to such boys?
And every year that goes by, that classroom of 11-12 year olds has a higher number of boys from demographic origins where fathers tell sons that soon you’ll be a man, female teachers have nothing worthwhile to teach men, and should be treated with polite contempt. What could possibly have given them that idea?
And that’s a damned disservice to girls, too. A lot of us love those same stories! These misandrist teachers hate the “stereotypical” boy, but turn around and enforce some stereotype on girls that we’re only interested in tales of tea parties and fantasy romance? Argh.