There’s no shortage of crises in modern education, from slashed funding to the long shadow of Covid to the gigantic (and worrying) question mark of AI. But one of the most insidious has to be boys becoming inundated by so-called “manosphere” content.
The phrase describes a loose network of communities and content creators that range from incels to pick-up artists and everything in between. What they almost always share is a toxic and infectious misogynistic and anti-social message. Andrew Tate, a former MMA fighter who faces charges of sex trafficking in Romania and rape in the U.K., has been one of the biggest stars to emerge from this world.
Young people, specifically boys, have been veritably bombarded with this content on social media.
And it is far from harmless. Alongside the mano