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Posted by diogenes on 2024-April-6 09:53:00, Saturday
In reply to Re: Bait and switch posted by Errant on 2024-April-6 07:16:56, Saturday

In my ideal system, the standard pattern would be for single sex schools. This is certainly no more inflexible than the current system of co-ed schools. You say that all-boy schools already exist, but in my country they have become ever fewer over the last few decades. When I was a boy, I flourished in a single sex school that has since become co-ed, and this is the fate of so many formerly single-sex schools in my country. And whatever the reasons behind this change, you can be sure it was a result of decisions taken by adults; and the ideology that dresses this up as an advance, based on the notion that boys benefit from association with supposedly superior beings (girls), is not one that I favour. Putting gender non-conforming kids into this modern co-ed monoculture is no guarantee that they aren't persecuted. Society has yet to resolve this issue satisfactorily.

But we seem to have got onto the topic of my personal ideal system of education in a world that doesn't exist. Very pleasant, of course, but a little tangential to the point of my OP, which was the incompatibility (as I allege) of post-MeToo feminism (which I also allege is basically now the only feminist game in town) and the right of boys to sexual self-expression, an incompatibility that leads us to side with our persecutors and boys' persecutors (as in Etenne's example). Abandoning the alliance with feminism and gays - or rather, acknowledging that they have abandoned us - and quite long ago, actually, if truth be told - is indeed an emotional wrench, but one we must go through (as I believe that Pharmakon has inadvertently shown) if we are to even begin to construct alternative narratives that can challenge half a century of feminist gaslighting of our, and boys', feelings and experiences.

diogenes

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