'Victimhood narrative' taught in schools fuels anxiety in young women, academic claims.

mwobuddy · 2017-10-22T10:03:27+00:00

No shit? really? /s During the era in history where both men and women are safest, they feel more unsafe than ever. Because you shouldn't "victim blame" we teach them to stay naive children as Peterson would say, and then they can't protect themselves in case of a small minority of violence occurs, as they also cannot figure out when to stay or leave a situation.

William__F0ster · 2017-10-22T10:10:21+00:00

“I do think that there is one particular feminist narrative that seems to dominate in education,” Dr Williams told The Sunday Telegraph.

“But it is increasingly out of touch with reality. Girls are doing so much better at school than boys, and yet we are having people like The Everyday Sexism Project are coming into schools sends out a message of: ‘just you wait, there are real difficulties ahead’.”

Yet again, a message that has been coming out of this sub for years now - but which has been roundly condemned as the vile thoughts of evil women-hating misogynists and rape apologists and etc. - turns out to be a quite reasonable criticism - when said by someone else.

Speaking of which:

Janet Bloomfield Speech at ICMI16 London - How Feminism Infantilizes Women

The_Best_01 · 2017-10-22T19:44:32+00:00

You don't say!

There was a survey posted recently in twox showing that something like 20% of women without a college education think women are oppressed, but the number shot up to like 60% for women who attended college.

University faculty is being overrun with feminists who fetishize victimhood.

It's quite amazing. These women go to college where they:

are the majority demographic on campus
receive more financial aid and opportunity
have more resources and support (women's centers, women-only spaces)
benefit from a campus disciplinary system that strips men of their education simply on the accusation of one woman

and yet they leave college believing that they have it worse than slaves in the 1800's.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-10-22T16:39:54+00:00

Propaganda In The Helping Professions
... we tend to think that what goes through our mind must be important. Simply repeating a position increases the likelihood of its acceptance, especially if the statement is offered in a conﬁdent manner by a person of prestige and has a slogan quality that plays on our emotions. Results of a weak study may be repeated so many times in different sources (e.g., professional journals) that they (undeservedly) achieve the status of a law. Gelles (1982) calls this the Woozle Eﬂect. A willingness to challenge even cherished beliefs helps to combat this source of error. “If our examination of the facts leads to a conclusion which we ﬁnd to be inconceivable, this need not be regarded as telling us anything about the facts, but only about the limits of our powers of conceiving” (Thouless, 1974, p. 80). Repeated afﬁrmation, conviction, or the manner in which something is said do not provide evidence for claims.

Repetitions of a statement are more effective if they are varied; we are less likely to discover that no reasons are provided as to why we should believe or act in a certain manner (Thouless, 1974).
Eileen Gambrill (20 February 2012). *Propaganda in the Helping Professions.* Oxford University Press, USA. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-19-532500-3.

Rethgil · 2017-10-22T21:25:48+00:00

Scared people are easier to control.

autotldr · 2017-10-23T13:43:17+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)

"But it is increasingly out of touch with reality. Girls are doing so much better at school than boys, and yet we are having people like The Everyday Sexism Project are coming into schools sends out a message of: 'just you wait, there are real difficulties ahead'."

Dr Williams said that this narrative of feminism is outdated since girls now consistently outperform boys at school and more women have been going on to higher education than men for the past generation.

Writing in Women vs Feminism, she said that today's dominant feminism narrative "Clearly espouses one idea above all others: that women are disadvantaged and oppressed; routine victims of everyday sexism, casual misogyny and the workings of patriarchy".

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: women^#1 Girls^#2 school^#3 feminism^#4 Sexism^#5

MyOtherTagsGood · 2017-10-22T14:01:56+00:00

So, maybe I'm missing something. What does this topic have to do with the rights of males being violated?

Title	'Victimhood narrative' taught in schools fuels anxiety in young women, academic claims.
Author	Liberal_irony
Upvotes	418
Comments	40
Date	October 22, 2017 9:51 AM UTC (8 years ago)
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