Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools

[Coventina]

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Jamie’s treatment of Briony reflects an unfortunate reality: Female teachers in Britain have sounded the alarm about incel culture — in 2022, The Guardian reported that 70 percent said they have faced misogyny in schools, evidence that many red-pilled boys feel the need to reassert the power dynamic of male supremacy even to adult women. In 2024, Cosmopolitan U.K. reported on “school in the era of Andrew Tate.”

Stephanie Wescott, a lecturer at the school of education, culture and society at Australia’s Monash University, was a primary-school teacher before she went into academia, and she told me she experienced “sexism, sexual harassment and misogyny just as a daily experience in the classroom,” from teenage boys. She started reading news reports of teachers experiencing “a wave of misogyny” after Tate became popular in Britain and she wanted to see if Australian teachers were dealing with the same problems.

They were. Wescott published her research in 2023, and she said that teachers pointed to the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020-21 as the period of radicalization for a “vocal minority” of their male students; these boys were stuck at home and melting their brains on the internet.

In a qualitative study of 30 teachers from across Australia, Wescott quotes Amanda, who teaches at a public school in Melbourne and describes the dramatic change in one boy during that period. When she met him in Year 7 — the equivalent to seventh grade in the United States, so when he was probably 12 or 13 — he was creative and polite and in a dance troupe. Two years later, Amanda said, he was “writing these disturbingly misogynistic messages, literally saying, ‘No, Andrew Tate is being vilified. He’s in the right.’ I’m like, ‘Who is that boy? Because that’s not the boy that I’ve seen for the last couple of years.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/adolescence-misogyny-schools.html

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Young white men are the students who give me the most problems.