If you live in the UK, it will be impossible to ignore the ringing in your ears as the media sings about ‘anti-misogyny lessons’ being brought into schools. Yup. Children (and by that I mean boys) as young as 11, are to be sent to mandatory workshops to deprogram them of their anti-woman-red-pill-Andrew-Tate-peddalling-manosphere-loving world views. The incessant finger-wagging continues. This time, to the tune of several million pounds of tax payer money, as step-one toward Keir Starmer’s pledge to “halve violence against women”, is put into place. Again, the same antiquated, ideological dogma is being peddled to boys, and no doubt it will achieve absolutely nothing, as always. And that is because incomplete solutions never work. Neither do endless lectures from overworked, and underpaid teachers, given to disinterested boys, that fail to see such lads as both simultaneous perpetrators, and victims in their own right. None-the-less, the Government, and the usual merry band of ideologues bang the drum, viewing our society through the same thick, cartoonish lens, lowering the IQ of debate, and insisting on seeing violence like some kind of Disney movie, or indeed, Netflix special. Meanwhile, boys, who are no less likely to experience violence or abuse in adolescence, are ignored entirely; and girls, who perpetuate violence and consume harmful online content at similar rates to their male peers, are never discussed or supported either. And so what little self worth our boys hold onto, takes another stomping, and nothing is achieved as a result. Because nothing changes until our view of violence, and those vulnerable, changes too. The world is just a little more divided, the tax payer a little poorer, and the problem remains the same. What do you think? ~ YEF 2025 https://tinyurl.com/38jjxw7y Centre for youth and criminal justice https://tinyurl.com/bt3ye4by

2025-12-19