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Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools
(www.theguardian.com)
“Can’t talk now lads, I’m off to porn class!”
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might as well tell them about the pickup artist grifters too, these are probably the primary source of that misogyny, i feel like porn is adjacent to this.
I personally feel that porn more than likely has fuck all to do with it and that this is part of a broader crusade against sex by the British government.
trying to deflect from the actual sources, the right wing grifters, and pickupartists, if you go back far enough it ends up with foreign individual funding all of this and any right wing legislation.
Not shocked.
One day porn addiction was a thing suffered by... no one? A very small group of people? However many people there were that legitimately gooned such that their life was negatively impacted and couldn't stop.
Then it was fucking everyone, everywhere, and watching porn at all meant you were a depraved addict. And deviation from the sexual norm for a man - porn addict. Any non vanilla sex interests? Porn addict. Difficulty orgasming? Porn addict.
It came out of fucking nowhere. Nobody sees the agenda behind this shit, they just accept it. Media literacy is borderline nonexistent.
It didn't come out of fucking nowhere. It (to the degree we see it today) came out of social isolation caused by the pandemic, at least in the US and Europe. Japan kind of already had the phenomenon even before COVID.
And AI on top of that is like an adult equivalent of the wire monkey experiment, except the wire monkey is adequately-convincing for many people and tells you whatever you want to hear.
I think anyone millennial or older can attest that access to porn has changed drastically in the past 2 decades. In the pre-youtube era video porn required physical media. Most teens were fapping to static images or soft core feature length films.
I do think getting access to the smorgasbord of pornography available these days at too young an age does short circuit the natural transition from boyish curiosity to healthy sexual interest.
Skipping over the phase where boobs is all it took and going straight to deepthroat anal gaping seems like a recipe for problems afaic. It's like having absinth for your first alcohol instead of a beer.
no, it doesn't.
the issue is economic insecurity, not watching porn.
also, just because stuff is available doesn't mean anyone/everyone is watching it. you make a boatload of poor and false assumptions.
This explains so much about you...
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Children as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and...
You are correct sir.
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No mention of what behavior they are talking about, misogyny is a pretty wide and often vague subject. It's almost like we're not supposed to know the details so we can't decide for ourselves if the behaviors need 'correcting' instead of taking their word at a claim of misogyny alone.
I've been called a misogynist a lot. Mostly when I am confronting a woman about her crappy behaviour towards other people or myself. It's definable a term that is used to avoid accountability, or against anyone who doesn't agree with benevolent sexism towards women.
I've never been called a misogynist my entire life. People have made unfair criticisms, people have made fair criticisms, but nobody called me a misogynist.
I wonder what kind of rhetoric you consistently have for people to dig up for this word in particular when speaking about you. Should make you wonder, probably won't.
They dig it up because our society, in america at least, sees women as children and thinks they should not be responsible for the consequences of their actions, nor should they be financially independent from men.
I get it the most from women when I tell them I am not interested in financially supporting a woman and tell them they should pay their own bills rather than be dependent on men for financial solvency. Turns out a lot of people HATE that idea and think if you don't support women being financially dependent on men as a good life choice, you hate women.
I generally support the idea that men and women should be independent functional adults... and a lot of people see that as misogyny due to their gender bias assumption that men are to be providers/parents to women. And anyone who doesn't aspire to that type of a relationship is hates women, because the only 'proper' way to be a 'man' is to have a woman you take responsibility for emotionally and financially.
I get it the most from women when I tell them I am not interested in financially supporting a woman and tell them they should pay their own bills rather than be dependent on men for financial solvency
I have a feeling that you were called a misogynist less because of this opinion in and of itself, and more because you probably bring this up unsolicited and seething at any opportunity.
Aaand there we go. The misogynist is called a misogynist for being an actual misogynist.
Quick and easy demonstration.
right, so if i don't want to pay off my girlfriends college debt. i hate women?
yeah that's exactly proving my point. according to you if I don't want to pay $75K of someone else's poor choices, and she is a woman... I hate women. if i was gay and dating a man and didn't want to pay off his debt, does that mean i hate men or a i hate homosexuals?
It can't be that I just hate entitled deadbeat people or that I want a partner who contributes equally to a relationship.
Which is precisely why people view me as hating women. Because I treat them as equals and expect equality from them.
"I've been called a misogynist a lot"
i've also been called gay a lot. and yet i have no sexual interest in men. weird how other peoples perceptions of you may be totally incorrect.
it's almost as if other people's opinions have no bearing on what we really are.
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It's very sad to see negative comments like "I'm against everything the State does because the State is bad." Basically, these are people who deny the harmful effects of porn and the porn industry. I assume they're just a bunch of porn addicts who can't handle criticism of their drug.
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Thought this was The Onion for a moment...
Onion articles make more sense.
They're getting at something important at least.
We gonna have a class for girls on the difference between romance stories and real relationships?
No, because we all know that men not living up to women's fantasy ideals is their personal failing as men. These boys need to learn that if they aren't BDSM billionaires they don't deserve a woman.
And men having fantasy ideals about women, is hateful and bigoted. We can't have that, and since porn is mostly male sex fantasies it is wrong and bad.
Found the incel
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Waaay better than the porn bans and online age verification schemes, honestly.
I question why this is just for "children who show mysoginistic behavior", though. Sex ed should be universal, and this should be a major part of sex ed.
I assume the fear here is parents complaining about their kids being talked about porn, which may end up being a larger underlying issue than the porn itself. I guess you just have to trust that education professionals handle the opportunity well and this doesn't become a stern talking to for problem kids, which is likely to do as much as stern talking tos have done historically.
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I mean this sounds entirely sensible.
But I do worry what a bureaucratic system is likely to decide a normal relationship looks like won't capture reality either.
Hopefully they use it as a lesson in consent. And leave it at that.
I don't know enough about England's politics to form an opinion on how they will actually end up botching it, but I feel like it's going to be botched.
That's the problem here. The news is about things that haven't yet happened, leaving a lot for imagining.
I don’t think porn is to blame for that, rather social media but at least there’s learning.
They work in conjunction. Porn doesn't present a complete picture and social media personalities fill those blanks with misogyny.
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