Boys to be taught to respect women and girls as part of curriculum

DJjaffacake · 2025-12-14T01:26:28+00:00

I'm not sure how much teenage boys being told they need to be nicer to women and girls while they're in an environment which is visibly skewed in favour of women and girls is going to help, tbh. I suspect it will cause a lot of digging in of heels.

CetaWasTaken · 2025-12-14T01:45:41+00:00

Maybe they should teach girls to respect boys

ActualInteraction0 · 2025-12-14T01:42:51+00:00

It will inevitably have the opposite impact.

Boys are not stupid; enough of them will notice the injustice of being treated like a perpetrator of future crimes by virtue of their gender. They will also realise that complaining about that will get them earmarked for punishment.

Invariably; just as this initiative is led by Jess Philips, who hasn’t the slightest inkling of what it’s like to be a boy or man, it will be carried out by a bunch of teachers who will majority be women, focusing on shaming boys and men and encouraging them to ‘grass’ on their friends (social suicide amongst boys in all schools).

The influencers like Tate, become the rebellious option, the film you were told you mustn’t watch, the forbidden fruit. Then in all likelihood they will find their portrayal of masculinity as empowering and inspiring; simply by virtue of not hating on their sex that they are accustomed to by mainstream society and their teachers.

In not engaging in a good faith conversation with boys and young men they will simply learn to conceal their thoughts and feelings on the topic then quietly vote for Far Right parties who appear to listen to men’s issues.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2025-12-13T16:10:05+00:00

As per usual, boys are being framed as eternal perpetrators and girls as eternal victims.

I'm all for teenagers getting an education on empathy and human decency, but as always only one side are being treated as the villains.

Lanavis13 · 2025-12-14T01:25:52+00:00

This is one way to create more misogyny and resentment among boys.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2025-12-13T16:08:31+00:00

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Britain: Boys to be taught to respect women and girls as part of curriculum, lessons will cover how to challenge misogyny, and teachers and parents will be helped to spot if children are being radicalised against women and girls

All boys will be taught how to respect women and girls as part of the school curriculum under government plans to “deploy the full power of the state” to crack down on male violence and misogyny.

Teachers will give lessons on how children should challenge misogynistic comments and behaviour and to promote “healthy relationships”, The Times has been told.

Official government advice will also help teachers and parents to spot signs that children are being radicalised by online misogynists such as Andrew Tate and how they can intervene early.

The measures have been drawn up in order to deliver Labour’s goal of halving rates of violence against women and girls within a decade.

The Home Office announced in July that this goal will be measured on the number of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking offences suffered by women each year, which was 3.2 million women aged over 16 in the year to March 2025 — one in eight women — according to the crime survey by the Office for National Statistics. The government’s new strategy to prevent official violence against women and girls will be built around three goals: preventing radicalisation of young men, stopping abusers and supporting victims.

Prevention will target the behaviour and attitudes of young men in order to stop the root causes of radicalisation in their “schools, homes and online”, a government source said.

Research by the Home Office to inform the strategy has found that 40 per cent of teenagers in relationships are a victim of relationship abuse.

Officials in the Home Office, led by Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, believe this toxicity is being fuelled by the growing popularity and influence of online influencers such as Tate. A government source involved in drawing up the strategy cited recent polling that found that more than four in ten young men have a positive view of Tate, the self-styled “king of masculinity”.

An internal Home Office report last year concluded that an online “manosphere” is helping to fuel extreme misogyny and needs to be stopped in its tracks through official government policy.

To address this, the government will announce fresh restrictions targeting social media companies in order to make Britain the “hardest place for children to access harmful content online”, which will add to the Online Safety Act, which came into effect this year.

The strategy will address the lack of tools for parents and teachers to challenge harmful attitudes that are so easy to find online, a government source has said.

While some schools already teach a healthy relationship curriculum, including classes to counter-misogyny, there is a lack of consistency across the country.

The violence against women and girls strategy will aim to fix this “patchwork” of practices in schools by providing nationwide statutory guidance to schools, teachers and parents so it becomes a routine part of the curriculum.

The Department for Education will announce plans for schools to focus on changing the underlying attitudes of boys and young men by working with schools to “challenge misogyny and promote healthy relationships”.

A government source added: “We will also support parents and teachers to intervene early. And we will make Britain the hardest place for children to access harmful content online.”

It is also understood that schools will be required to introduce a new peer mentoring scheme that will train boys to support classmates in challenging unacceptable attitudes and behaviour.

Nobleone11 · 2025-12-14T02:20:19+00:00

Look, let's just call it what it truly is now: Child abuse. Because it doesn't stop with respect women. It ends with disrespect of themselves.

Subjecting boys to such self-esteem killing degradation and conditioning shouldn't be allowed. People need to be sued, parents need to raise a major stink and tell these predators to get lost.

But who am I kidding, parents want this.

ConsiderationSea1347 · 2025-12-14T03:29:28+00:00

Two tiered society in the making. They want so badly to be the patriarchy they pretend to fight.

Moist___Towelette · 2025-12-14T03:42:58+00:00

So we can expect that girls will be taught to respect men as part of the curriculum. Lessons will cover how to challenge misandry, and teachers and parents will be helped to spot if children are being radicalized against boys and men.

Otherwise, the only thing this will do is further the divide between the sexes.

ArmchairDesease · 2025-12-14T07:47:09+00:00

I cherish this kind of things. I'm accelerationist when it comes to feminism. I hope they continue, like they're actually doing, to antagonize boys and men. So that more and more people wakes up, and male advocacy can finally find a place in mainstream politics.

AigisxLabrys · 2025-12-14T06:54:38+00:00

This really flies in the face of systemic misogyny.

Due-Permission1353 · 2025-12-14T04:08:05+00:00

Not fully related but I remember one incident in my school days in 9th grade, we were being given a short lecture by the principal, then some guy mocks the principal by making some sound, principal gets furious and asks who made that sound, none of the boys answer (boys and girls were segregated into two different groups but were standing in the same room), then he tries to gaslight us into admitting who it was by telling the girls 'see girls, these are the boys of our school, the herd mentality of theirs is so strong that if one of them rapes you someday, others will still stay silent'. Now 5 years later, the school is in the media for its silence on the harassment of a girl in 6th grade by a bunch of dudes in 11th grade within school premises.

I also remember one day in assembly, there was a poetry recitation where this guy recited a poem of how women are superior to men in each and every and how they work so hard and are able to achieve what they achieve despite them being oppressed (and the poem wasn't even subtle about it, it literally spells this out). My school wasn't even some woke school.

Maffioze · 2025-12-14T08:49:08+00:00

This another one of these solutions that will make it worse, which will then be used as a reason to double down even further. The tragedy of modern society is doing things that don't work and just doubling down because it looks/feels good.

LoudSlip · 2025-12-14T09:04:47+00:00

What is this dystopian shit. Are these people braindead

hlanus · 2025-12-14T05:05:14+00:00

Why stop with boys respecting girls? Why not extend it to all children? Girls respecting boys as well. Like seriously, why is it only boys who need to be taught how to respect girls?

Argentarius1 · 2025-12-14T05:08:43+00:00

If this is sincere: It's evil and retarded.

If it's a secret plot to make sure British boys are implacably anti-feminist forever: Carry on lol

Enzi42 · 2025-12-14T11:35:47+00:00

Perhaps it's controversial to say, but things like this are why I find myself truly leaning into a policy of always siding with my own gender whenever there is a conflict, unless the man/men in question are so utterly wrong that there is no doubt of their guilt.

anomnib · 2025-12-14T13:32:54+00:00

This will work just as well as DEI and anti-bias training does at reducing racism: hint, it typically does nothing and, when involuntary, made people more resistant.

This is what happens when things are ran by people with no scientific training.

decg91 · 2025-12-14T01:48:58+00:00

hope they realize this opens the door to more andrew tate type of personas

FrequentPaperPilot · 2025-12-14T07:46:50+00:00

Of course it's the cUK

2025-12-14T07:55:34+00:00

Just don’t engage with women. Problem solved

Different-Product-91 · 2025-12-14T08:39:29+00:00

The result of those efforts will be the contrary of what is intended.

ByronsLastStand · 2025-12-14T09:47:25+00:00

And all the while, girls are learning from influencers, politicians, academics, and cases in the news that they can physically assault, emotionally and sexually abuse, and rape boys and get away scot free. Jess Phillips laughs at the notion of female perpetrators and male victims, all the while the data clearly shows victimisation is much the same, as are perpetrators.

EmpathGenesis · 2025-12-15T09:53:33+00:00

Respect should always be a two-way street

Specialist_Load_9953 · 2025-12-16T18:34:20+00:00

15 minutes on TikTok is enough evidence for any sane person to realise that women and girls also if not arguably far more need lessons on how to respect men and boys, instead of hating them and disproportionately fearing them, at such a delusional unnecessary level, it can’t be any good for their mental health.

Yes men can be dangerous, and men know this more than anyone, because it’s men who are the victims of violence ‘far far’ more frequently than woman, men are in fact twice as likely to be the victims of violence. The difference is men can better evaluate and manage risk, and logically identify what is genuine risk instead of assessing risk on feelings and fears; feelings and fears that are absurdly distorted having been extremely exaggerated by feminism at a ludicrously exorbitant level and brainwashed into young women unhealthily.

I genuinely believe this mind virus they are taught is as harmful and damaging to women as it is men. The insanity of putting yourself unnecessarily through the mental stress of fearing every man you come across in life, is genuinely worthy of a one way ticket to a lunatic asylum.

Women get into cars many times a week, if not several times a day, without a second thought on the risk of dying in a crash; however they are as likely to die during that road journey as they are being graped by a complete stranger as a random act of violence.

… and let’s not get into how much more likely they’d be suffering from a slow and painful death at the jaws and paws of a bear, than they would coming to any harm at the hands of 99.9999% of men.

MW_200309 · 2025-12-14T08:47:00+00:00

Doing this is only going to make boys (who have no thoughts or desires to commit sexual assault/murder) not engage with the education system.

It makes no sense to tell an actual rapist not to rape because they usually don’t take no for an answer.

splittingxheadache · 2025-12-14T14:08:03+00:00

If this happened in America the 19th would be repealed in 8 years or less.

SaltyPercentage6334 · 2025-12-17T14:32:20+00:00

As an atheist, I recall how the wholesale biblethumping after 9/11, how intense push for Christianity turned many a young men into Bible hating edgelords who Championed the likes of Carlin, Dawkins and such. Heavy pushes for feminism is going to end up with creeps like Tate or Fuentes being lionzied and praised by young men. Is it still possible to prevent this at this stage?

Karmaze · 2025-12-14T07:30:29+00:00

Okay, I am going to say something rather controversial but I'll explain the context throughout.

I think this is a solution to two problems and they're only talking about one, deliberately.

Migration has dramatically shifted the culture of the nation in ways that politicians didn't expect. There was an assumption anyone who arrived would retain the best bits of their religious, culinary and social heritage whilst also completely integrating with our political culture.

This hasn't happened as anticipated.

Jess Phillips is the MP for Birmingham.

Birmingham has one of the highest concentrations of South asian men in the country. 30% of its total population and 40% of them are also under the age of 25.

It is well known that men from these cultures do not respect women, and are increasing unlikely to intergrate into respecting women because they're creating areas where by residing on mass their home countries culture is perpetrated.

It is no different to when the English retire in Spain. They move to the same area on mass and refuse to intergrate.

As a seperate example, littering is a massive problem in places where Pakistanis and Indians have moved to because of the caste system they had back home has taught them it is someone lower down who's job it is to pick it up. And this is being perpetuate via neglect to teach any different to their kids.

During the last election Jess was publicly jeered and undermined during her acceptance speech by these men. It was clearly a sexist response from the men, also.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SoEubeoBIZw?si=LJ6LWDJyUYXa5Evs

It isn't any wonder why this is being launched. I do believe there is a culture-gap between the English culture and some of those who have immigrated within the last 30 years. This plan, as well as to tackle the misogyny increases young men are internalising from online spaces, is part of the same strategy.

What isn't being done is more to support and encourage men to remain as fathers in the home so they don't need to resort to father figures in online spaces.

But if this improves integration and helps reduce at least some misandrists attitudes I am for it. However, I don't believe the government understands the problem well enough to execute a solution that will not backfire.

Young men and boys (and now just men as they've aged into adulthood) no longer feel safe and respected by society. They see the cards stacked against them in an attempt to overcompensate for the guilt of what came before them as the worst in society.

I hope this doesn't swing the pendulum too far but only time will tell.

Motanul_Negru · 2025-12-15T15:21:31+00:00

It's as if these people want to lose to the far right.

_vertig0 · 2025-12-16T06:09:24+00:00

On paper it seems like a good idea, teach people respect for others. But when you take a step back and look at it, that is incredibly insulting.

Poly_and_RA · 2025-12-21T21:59:46+00:00

This will have the opposite effect of the one intended. They don't realize it, but young men falling into the clutches of the likes of Tate is not the root cause; instead that's a second-order CONSEQUENCE.

It starts with misandry.

It starts with growing up in a world that from your perspective seems pretty centered on women.

Where does the average young man spend his time between birth and age 20? At home in the family, with mom treated as the primary parent by default. If there's a divorce, which is pretty common, it'll statistically speaking most often end with the kids going to live with mom, while dad gets to send money.

Then they go to kindergarden, primary school, secondary school -- all environments with a SOLID dominance of women. High-school too, but by now they get grades, and they'll notice that girls get better grades in all subject from a predominantly female group of teachers. The grade-gap is smaller on anonymously graded tests, so we know part of it is pure discrimination.

And then, in THIS environment they're told that they live in a patriarchy. That they're privileged. That they're a danger to women by virtue of nothing other than being born as the person they are. That the problem is that people like them dominate and women suffer discrimination.

Women make up something like 60% of university-students too.

Is it any wonder that they feel as if the world they're being told that they live in, doesn't correspond well to the one they ACTUALLY live in?

Oh, and dating will be on their mind. They're at peak hornyness age after all. And they can't help but notice that most of the women they're studying with have complete freedom to date whenever they want, and have essentially infinite choice, while they themselves are wanted by (more or less) nobody.

There's nothing they can do about it. Women on the average prefer men who are confident, assertive, independent, financially secure, with an education and so on -- and it's just a fact that for the average 20 year old woman, men who are a few years older will on the average score better on these things compared to men who are the same or a few years younger.

And they can't solve that by dating even younger women. Maturity-issues and age-of-consent issues makes that a bad idea, and in some jurisdiction draconian laws back this up. (In several US states you're considered a sex-offender if you're 18 and have a girlfriend who is even a single year younger!)

And it's in *this* environment that Tate and co shows up and tells these men: You might have heard <things they've actually heard> -- but those things are lies. Here's the truth about women. Misogynist nonsense follows, but at least it has the advantage that it doesn't paint the men as a problem just for EXISTING. Besides, some of it is actionable and works better than what the mainstream and progressive left tells young men. Because we're so afraid of offending someone that we'll usually leave it at just telling them what NOT to do. And we'll certainly shy away from telling them the truth if the truth isn't politically correct.

The advice given by the likes of Tate is horrible.

But the reason it arrives, is that it lands in fertile soil in minds that have been alienated and told they're a problem for no fault of their own, by the mainstream *and* by most parts of the progressive left.

Quarrio · 2026-04-26T07:44:53+00:00

Do girls/women respect boys/men? From my observations, absolutely not. Girls and women demand special privileges at the expense of others.

Why should boys/men respect them when they don't respect themselves?

Maybe let's talk about why boys/men should respect themselves first and only then others.

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xLetsGetDangerousx · 2026-01-11T20:18:14+00:00

absolutely what is needed. until boys stop being the most common perpetrator, this is what should be required world wide. every single comment I have read by a man has proven that this education is 100% necessary, especially for those boys in the comments. And no, we don't need girls to go through the same education because they are not the common perpetrator. they are not the common aggressor. they are statistically the common victim. so until women become the most common denominator for all of these aggressive attacks, it's not necessary for women. no misandrydoes not exist but the patriarchy does. hope this helps. cope.

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