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[digonswine]

--some people seem to live in some kind of bubble where gender discrimination is some sort of nebulous concept that is open to statistics regarding women in college and achievement.
I have just started teaching(not a new teacher) in a fairly rural school here in Wisconsin.
The football coach(my fellow teacher) encourages the athletes with progressive statements like, “You have dick! You have a dick!” You know, don’t be a chick, don’t be a woman.
The kids have no filter---they hear this stuff day-to-day. Any time a male does not behave in some stereotypical manner—the result is a barrage of insulting words. The terms Pussy, Mangina, menstruation references, weakness—par for the course.
I insist these terms not be used, but they appear to be ingrained in these kids. They grew up with it—it is the way to express disappointment or to encourage more “manly” behavior.
This is a rather rural school. This is to what they have been exposed. It is an uphill battle.
There are teachers here that behave similarly—only male. Seriously-----seriously---there are a very few male teachers that go online to Facebook accounts, with the kids, and critique the female teachers based upon what they see. I have heard permutations of female teachers’ names be turned into crude sexual jokes by these people who should be role-modeling proper behavior.
These young males are hyper-sexualized and have few to look up to that do not have some sort of perverted sense of how to treat the opposite sex.
I do not blame the kids-we are the problem.
I used to work in a treatment center for sex offenders. We worked hard on these problems. I have heard more vile comments from some of my regular students than I ever heard before.
Anyone who thinks that men are becoming irrelevant or a minority with no power are outside their minds.
I am a white male-I have to fight misogyny EVERY DAY. Every day. . . .really.
The idea is. . . misogyny is here—and in a big way.
Life is difficult for everyone. To think that to be a female makes it easier is to deny reality. Being a male is not easy-it is the truth, but we are overrepresented to say the least.
All comments are welcome-I can’t respond until Friday night or Saturday morning!!