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Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK's classrooms, according to teachers.

More than 5,800 teachers were polled... and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils' behaviour.

One teacher said she'd had 10-year-old boys "refuse to speak to [her]...because [she is] a woman". Another said "the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as 'masculine'".

"There is an urgent need for concerted action... to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists."

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Rizz, alpha/beta/sigma, mid, simp. A lot of importance placed on your value, your masculinity and a lot of overlap between gaming and red pill content.

You got kids mewing trying to get their jawlines looking nice. Little girls obsessed with makeup and skincare. It’s wild and people think it’s all innocent. It’s not. It’s early indoctrination.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's honestly wild to me that people in my age bracket can grow up with heroin chic, and think it somehow just vanished into the ether. I don't know why it's so hard for them to understand that kids are just getting hit with an evolved form of the same bullshit message that you're worthless if you don't fit a specific aesthetic.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How does heroine chic relate? I may have been too young to remember anything besides the look

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was just the "goal" aesthetic I was trying to meet as a young woman. So many of my classmates developed an eating disorder or just started using drugs because the "strung out supermodel" look was what everybody wanted.

Its just a precursor carrying the same message kids are gettimg today. That you're worthless if you don't look the right way, and you should hurt yourself to look the right way.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ah I see. Yeah the more insecure you are the more money they can make from you. Especially the more unattainable the ideal is.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I feel the only new things here are simp and rizz if I'm honest. Simp seems to have gone the way of woke in that it's lost most of its meaning, but when I see it used on YouTube it's sinister AF. Tbh I've noticed this a lot on YouTube of late, high degree of racist and misogynistic comments in videos that feature a woman doing something "incorrectly" or if something criminal happens and it's not readily apparent what the race of the perp is.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You and I are getting the same algorithm cuz I’ve seen the same stuff on insta. I had to deleted it finally. Couldn’t tolerate the intolerance and stupidity. Just a circkejerk of losers.