Why do women teachers like me treat being a boy as an illness?

SarahC · 2010-09-04T01:45:21+00:00

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a_true_bro · 2010-09-04T03:15:03+00:00

when i was in grade 1 I went to a hebrew school. We were in computer class drawing in mspaint one time. I drew something that looked like a dog at one angle and a dolphin at the other, and the other kids were impressed. except one. she told me it looked like a penis. ever the recalcitrant young boy i was i decided it would only be fair if i countered that by suggesting a strong resemblance between her drawing and a "BUHGINA!". I got in so much shit for that from the female teacher. talks about parts and how they are inappropriate, most of that ultrafeminist propoganda went right over my head no doubt, but I remember giving my excuse that a female student had provoked me and being completely ignored. and shuffled off to time out. I didn't even get to save dogphin.bmp

CantBelieveItsButter · 2010-09-04T03:29:47+00:00

Once got angry in gym class when I was in 6th grade and kicked a dodgeball in anger, which unfortunately made a beeline for my female gym teacher. She had a right to be angry, since she got hit in the face, but when I went to apologize to her at the end of the day she insinuated that if I didn't get my anger under control, I could become a wife beater... TL;DR Getting angry in a dodgeball game cause I got out = I could grow up to be a wife beater... :|

mightycow · 2010-09-04T02:17:54+00:00

Seems like a standard over-correction. Used to be, girls were discouraged from going into "hard" subjects like math and science. Now some people want to encourage girls at the expense of boys.

IrishSniper87 · 2010-09-04T04:17:15+00:00

As a young man in the US, I have been told constantly by teachers and my peers that girls mature faster then guys and that they are roughly two years "ahead" of me.

While many males are more rambunctious then others, I have a laid back personality and have always been near the top of my class. I feel women are taught from an early age to "play house" while boys are steered toward sports and competition. Then, you place these children in a classroom together, often with female teachers, and constantly ask them to be docile and apply themselves to their studies. Many schools are getting away from recess and phys ed, and boys are scolded for running around and roughhouse.

Worse yet, many of these boys don't have a father figure at all in their life who can teach them how to be MEN.

With the stye of the US education system, it's only going to get worse before it gets better for boys in school.

dryfire · 2010-09-04T09:31:26+00:00

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2010-09-04T06:19:49+00:00

I talk about this to some of my progressive friends and they always argue with it because it doesn't fit the narrative of the dominant man oppressing the poor women of the world.

Since childhood I was led to believe that men are dumber than women. This is reinforced in society through our media. Watch any TV commercial with a couple. I'll bet you that the man in that relationship will be portrayed as a bumbling idiot and the woman will have to jump in to save the day.

Yet, you can't even have this discussion because it's apparently impossible to be sexist towards anyone other than women and to suggest that men might be victims in this instance is comparable to suggesting Hitler had a few interesting points.

Key_Lime · 2010-09-04T06:51:02+00:00

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hackiavelli · 2010-09-04T03:49:10+00:00

girls as young as four believe they are cleverer, try harder and are better behaved than boys of the same age.

Some things never change.

TheAceOfHearts · 2010-09-04T09:50:14+00:00

Interestingly enough, almost all my college professors are males. And actually, all my teachers up to 6th grade were females.

I remember I always got pissed when my teachers said girls matured fasted than men.

RapedByPlushies · 2010-09-04T04:20:00+00:00

I know this is unrelated to the article, but don't you hate it when people use "women" as an adjective? You'd never say "men teachers". The words are "male" and "female".

heyfella · 2010-09-04T02:19:24+00:00

Spoilers: bitches ain't shit.

grendel2110 · 2010-09-04T17:59:23+00:00

So...is she going to stop being a crummy teacher? Seems like she front-loads the article with self-blame, then proceeds to excuse herself in the following paragraphs.

The_Jackal · 2010-09-04T05:35:06+00:00

The Mail has its own agenda, and education is not in there.

JLContessa · 2010-09-04T05:50:41+00:00

OK. I see a lot of complaining, which I suppose y'all have a right to do. But, like I've asked before...

What do we do about it? Honestly, I'd love to see some ideas; surely there are some Redditors who are teachers. Maybe we can help something happen.

Kardlonoc · 2010-09-04T09:36:17+00:00

I think there needs to be a bit more understanding and temperance about boys in all grades. Boys are simply full of energy and some of them do well to focus their attention to scholarly work but others would just like to run around and play all day.

Imagine a Calvin if you would bursting with energy and imagination who is told to sit down and do a series of boring scholarly tasks of simple mathematics and writing. Schools should figure out a way to embrace boyhood energy instead of zombifying kids with drugs.

2010-09-04T07:15:21+00:00

Postman Pat, Percy The Park Keeper - they might be men, but they lack any defining male characteristics. These characters are asexual and frankly dull. Percy potters about in his shed, park or kitchen. No catching spies, cracking codes or submarine adventures for these two. They are uninspiring and insipid.

These asexual future manginas are the product of cancer called feminism that is bringing down Western civilization. Feminists and their political sponsors want obedient serfs that "stand still", show no initiative and listen what they are told to do by authorities. This brain-dead attempts of pussification will backfire one day, when these boys will be pressurized to "man up" in a time of necessity, but they will not man up, they'll just tell their wife/mother/sister/female friend to FO. Or perhaps when they decide to blow up shit to vent their frustration, having discovered the manhood they have been deprived of. But not like stupid Islamic terrorists in their low-IQ schemes, rather Timothy McVeigh-style.

sking737 · 2010-09-04T18:05:46+00:00

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2010-09-04T02:45:53+00:00

Because they can.

2010-09-04T07:02:33+00:00

Why do women teachers like me treat being a boy as an illness?

because you were never educated to be an educator

stemgang · 2010-09-04T02:17:16+00:00

I believe this event is why I now like to wear women's underwear under my clothes.

A woman mistreated you, so now you wear panties?

Coincidentally, a dog once bit me, so now I howl at the moon.

Perhaps we caught their madness.

DIGGYRULES · 2010-09-04T10:19:57+00:00

Everybody has at least one story about how a teacher "did them wrong". If you are male, and the teacher was a woman, you can blame all female teachers and decide that there is a concerted effort to undermine the entire gender. There is a 50% chance that anytime a teacher doesn't treat you as you would like to be treated, that teacher will be a woman. It's not ALL women. It's not all women teachers. It's the woman who you think wronged you. When I was 24, I was held at gunpoint by a cocaine-addicted freak of nature. A guy. Does this mean that all guys are going to hold me at gunpoint?

Liverotto · 2010-09-04T13:11:44+00:00

We tell them off if they play with toy guns, rather than showing them how to play responsibly in a boyish way.

Maybe that's why we are losing the Afghanistan war.

Bipolarruledout · 2010-09-04T04:58:56+00:00

WTF? Just a few years ago it was all about boys being more "academically aggressive" than girls. While I don't disagree with the points made this whole issue needs to stop. While massively simplified females generally excel and language and males tend to do better in mathematics. Get over it already, the sexes are different, races are different. You can't normalize everyone.

FlexiMan · 2010-09-04T16:11:46+00:00

Because those who can't...teach.

Why do women teachers like me treat being a boy as an illness?

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2 isn't gonna stop the baseless accusations that scare the ever loving shit out of male teachers, that even if proven false will still ruin their lives.

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