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Justice for Men & Boys 
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.” Thomas Babington Macaulay.
This is the latest example. Except that this time, it is not the British public, but the government, which is one of its periodic fits of morality.
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Thanks Rob. I was interviewed today by a young woman from the Swedish equivalent to the BBC, in relation to “Adolescence” and the manosphere. I think it’s safe to say little of what I said will end up in the final programme!
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“We need to raise a generation of boys with the strength to reject that hatred – curiosity, compassion, kindness, resilience, hope, respect.” Says Bridget Phillipson. You’d think simple common sense would tell her and our political elite that those admirable qualities are unlikely to be nurtured by bullying boys by declaring them “toxic” sexual predators whose attempts to form relationships are simply a prelude to oppression and abuse. Particularly if that bullying is supported by the school system. “Incel” (according to the TV Drama and an “expert” on Triggernometry) is an insult Girls already use to destroy the reputation of boys they don’t like. In much the same way “Puff” or “Gay” was used by Girls in my secondary school days (mid 1970s). So making “Incels” the hate figures de jour simply adds to the power of the bullies! Whatever else this does it will certainly make boys hate the message and messengers who add to the torments of adolescence.
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Also reported in the Telegraph and Times this carries the usual “spin” Teenage girls in England less likely to feel safe in school than boys – study | The Argus Of course in fact both sexes have seen a fall in feeling safe at school, according to the research nearly a third of female year nines and a quarter of male year nines don’t “feel safe”. Interestingly though the biggest effects, after England, are in Australia and NZ. The research is pre and post “pandemic”. And quite plausibly the lockdowns did have an effect here as well as internationally. However I’d think there may be another factor in the much greater shift in these three (England, Australia and New Zealand). The campaigns about “toxic masculinity”, “trans”, “consent” and sexual harassment/abuse. Which have all been pursued in the early years of this decade. In a sense the “Adolescence” moral panic is simply the latest in a string of “schools must do something” panics. It certainly unsurprising Girls in particular are more fearful as most of these campaigns cast them as almost inevitably victims of males in general and their male peers in particular. While boys , cast as an enemy within the school, must get the message they aren’t welcome there and anyway any problems they have are at best of no interest and worst entirely their own fault! So I suppose the latest panic, 13 year old boys are apostles of Andrew Tate and are waiting to pounce with knives, won’t help anyone in year 9 “feel safe”.
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