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It started a couple of years ago, when Amy noticed some of the boys in her class behaving differently, apparently influenced by the ideas of controversial social media personalities.<\/p>\n
“Definitely people on social media, I know one of them would definitely be Andrew Tate… just in general, they kind of influence each other.<\/p>\n
“It’s sort of like they’re trying to be hyper-masculine.”<\/p>\n
She said some of the things they discuss in class are racist, sexist and homophobic. One of the boys’ key beliefs is that women should only do things to benefit men.<\/p>\n
The boys who do not participate in the discriminatory behaviour, are labelled as “gay” or treated the same as the girls.<\/p>\n
“It seems like they just think we’re stupid and useless, I don’t think they like us,” she said.<\/p>\n
“They’ve started having the attitude of things like women should go back to the kitchen and women shouldn’t work and things like that.”<\/p>\n
Instead of having various friendship groups in the classroom, Amy said it is simply these boys against everyone else, and they see themselves as the leaders.<\/p>\n
Amy said the boys do not like the girls to do well academically, or to participate in PE or team sports. Some of the girls have even given up as a result.<\/p>\n
Some of their comments are explicitly sexual.<\/p>\n
“Before lunch we were about to leave class and as we were going out, I heard another boy say, ‘oh I want something to stick my **** in’.”<\/p>\n
“At lunch again the same boy also said to some other boys in my class that he wanted to slap someone’s thighs, and he mentioned the name of this specific girl.”<\/p>\n
Amy, who now goes to a different school, said the boys openly engage in anti-trans rhetoric, too.<\/p>\n
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