If they are, it doesn’t seem to be working: https://www.menteach.org/resources/data_about_men_teachers/
in my experience
We can trade anecdotes (and insults) all day long and none of it means a thing. You asked for a specific example and I gave you one. Just the first one off the top of my head. Schools in my area are canceling unstructured outdoor play time, which hurts boys more than girls.
Here’s one you’re probably more familiar with, since it’s nationwide: men being pushed out of careers in education.
I’m sure you’ll just move the goalposts on that one too though. “Ah but it’s not GOVERNMENT doing it so it doesn’t count!” or “I know a male teacher so it doesn’t count!”
A dismissal or lack of consideration for the unique issues facing men and boys and the unique solutions they require. Focusing exclusively on women and girls. Viewing boys as defective girls.
In this thread, here’s a few specific examples
Let’s use their own “reports” to show those women that their boyfriends/husbands/fathers think they own them.
The rate of girls identitying as liberal is significantly higher[…]Probably because the girls face actual threats to their freedoms, while the conservative boys’ complaints are about a bunch of imaginary nonsense.
I was a “Fox News”-viewing turd in high school, too[…]then I grew up.
It’s passive because it’s not direct and focused. It’s more neglect than abuse. Men’s problems are not just secondary; they’re not even worth consideration, and men should just Fix It Themselves.
Schools in particular are extremely geared towards focusing on girls and their successful development.
Things are pretty shitty
You need context. Things are more shitty than they were 10 years ago. Things are less shitty than they were 20 years ago. Things are MUCH less shitty than they were 50 years ago. The general trend is towards less shittyness (with the very important exception of the climate, which has been getting exponentially worse for 200 years (although in the past decade it’s stopped getting exponentially worse and is now just getting worse, which is technically an improvement kind of)).
News definitely has a vested interest in making us think things in general are getting eternally worse. For example, see the “there’s a recession coming! Any second! It’s coming…now! No wait let me try again…now! No? Well it’s coming soon, it’s almost here!” every day for the past what, 3 years?
Or for another example, you never see news stories about how the GHG emissions in the US have been falling every year. But they are.
Bad news sells better than good news.
Exactly. I’ve been playing Bethesda games for ages, news like this makes me happy they’re keeping the stuff that works.