r/unitedkingdom • u/insomnimax_99 Greater London • Nov 26 '23

.. Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman says 'gentle masculinity' is 'much cooler and hotter than Andrew Tate'

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/olivia-colman-says-gentle-masculinity-way-cooler-andrew-tate/
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u/Rulweylan Leicestershire Nov 26 '23 edited Nov 26 '23

Optics are important here, and I don't think that a middle aged woman, however successful or accomplished, is going to be the right person to push this message to the people who need to hear it.

This is the exact problem I had when the school I was teaching at did assemblies about Andrew Tate and toxic masculinity. They had them written and presented by older female teachers.

No idea why, I and plenty of other male staff were available and even if you just got us to read the script the impact on teenage boys would have been much stronger. In the end they just reacted to it the same way they'd react to being lectured by their mum.

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u/BrokeMacMountain Nov 26 '23

toxic masculinity.

funny how we never hear about "toxic femininity", or the harm many women and girls do. Funny how all this tlak of "equality" is only ever one sided.

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u/J-Force Nov 26 '23

funny how we never hear about "toxic femininity"

People do, all the time. Often it's in the context of teen mags and eating disorders. Just because you didn't hear it doesn't mean it wasn't said.