And if it’s like any other government education program, it will produce solely negative and crappy results and just be weaponized against students and teachers both

This is how I know you’re just being grumpy to be grumpy. This is extreme hyperbole at best. No public education system is perfect, far from it, but to claim every government education system ever has only produced negative results is insane.

Yes, it’s a bad, clickbait headline. That’s why it’s important to read the articles.

I think you’re making some leaps here. Nothing in the article is suggesting that all boys are evil, or that they’re going to be socially isolated. Granted, the article doesn’t exactly give specifics about how it’ll be enacted, but I feel like you’re filling in the gaps with the worst stuff you can imagine, and then getting mad at that.

From my reading of the article, it seems like they’re just adding topics like pornography, deep-fake/image abuse, consent, coercion, peer-pressure, online abuse, etc. to the curriculum, coupled with training for teachers to be able to recognize and address misogynistic behaviors. Again, I’ll grant that the article is missing some important details like how they’re going to teach those various topics, how they’re going to empower teachers to identify problems, the checks and balances they’ll use to prevent teachers abusing the system, what they’re defining as misogyny, etc. But I feel like those details are a little too in-the-weeds for this type of overview article, and until we do know what those details are, I don’t think filling those gaps by assuming the worst is productive.

You’re focusing specifically on porn, but the plan in the article doesn’t. The plan isn’t to tell boys to “just say no” to porn.

You’ll find no disagreements from me that porn isn’t necessarily the root cause of misogyny, but I don’t think anything in the article suggests that.

After reading the article, it seems like there’s a lot more to this than just classes for boys. I struggle to draw the same comparison to 80s abstinence-only sex education, and I think schools can contribute in more ways than the one you listed, like the ones mentioned in the article.

I think it’s more like all those other things got them closer and closer, and this last thing was the final straw.

It’s literally the brute-force approach to Internet service

^or good at sports^

hands nephew some bits of fiber optic cable and an SFP

Figure it out, kid

PowerShell seems like what you get when you combine the convenience and accessibility of a Linux shell with the annoying verbosity of Java

Mmm, that reminds me, I haven’t had lunch yet oink oink

Back, and to the left…

Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.

I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

How is the dog shitting in the house the Roomba’s fault?

Sorry, but talking about how dental care sucks in other places too, in a post about dental services being rendered in exchange for statutory rape, sure does sound like making excuses.

That’s nice, good job muddying the waters.

In how many of those other countries are minors tempted to perform sexual acts on government officials to receive said shitty dental care?

If it had been anyone else, they’d have been named a grave threat to national security and it’s pretty likely they’d never be seen or heard from again.

If I’ve replied to you once why start with this:

Because your one reply to me claimed that I was saying a bunch of stuff that I never said in my one comment?

Like, it should be obvious what’s going on here

My account is over two years old with thousands of other comments. My writing style is vastly different than anyone else’s in this thread. I’m not creating new accounts to avoid blocks. I’m not out to get you. I’m flattered, but it’s not that serious.

My guy, you wanna stop putting words in my mouth and have an honest, productive discussion, I’m all for it. Otherwise, don’t bother replying.

Also, pay attention to usernames when replying. That was my first comment in this chain, but I have a feeling you thought you were replying to someone you’d already been talking to.