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News: Australia schools to teach about privilege and gender roles
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Australia schools to teach about privilege and gender roles
"Ready to smash the patriarchy, mate? Well, say goodbye to gender inequality and g'day to enlightened schoolchildren, because Australia's kids are learning about privilege
A new $21.8 million ($16.5 million) education program has been trialled in Victoria, and will now be rolled out in the state's public schools over the next two years. It aims to encourage "respectful relationships" among male and female students, including addressing issues of "social inequality, gender-based violence and male privilege.
The Respectful Relationships curriculum will run from primary (elementary) school, up until high school and covers topics ranging from sexual orientation, ****ography and pay inequality.
Primary school students will be introduced to concepts like "girls can play football, can be doctors and can be strong," and "boys can cry when they are hurt, can be gentle, can be nurses and can mind babies." High school students will learn all about the terms pansexual, cisgender and transsexual.
The program defines privilege as "automatic, unearned benefits bestowed upon dominant groups" based on "gender, sexuality, race or socio-economic class," with the year 7 and 8 curriculum stating "Being born a male, you have advantages — such as being overly represented in the public sphere — and this will be true whether you personally approve or think you are entitled to this privilege."
Full article/source at http://mashable.com/2016/10/17/austr.../#hRL_z.tzukqU
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I'd like to know which schools in Victoria trialled this? Because I have 2 younger brothers that are currently in High School (1 in year 7) and they have no idea what this is about.
EDIT: Just read it's in public schools 
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Hope the part about gender violence goes over how 40% of domestic violence victims are men, how men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, and how men usually have zero domestic violence shelters they can access in the vast majority of cities.
And when they go over "male privilege", I hope they also go over the advantages that being female brings to a person, such as longer life expectancy (aka literally living more! probably the greatest privilege imaginable!), far more funding for gender-specific diseases, gender-specific grants and scholarships (even though the majority of homeless unemployed are men), having lower rates of suicide, being several orders of magnitude less likely to be injured or die on the job, being more likely to get custody of children, having the right to genital integrity at birth, and getting more lenient sentences than men for the same crimes with the same criminal history.
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Primary school students will be introduced to concepts like "girls can play football, can be doctors and can be strong," and "boys can cry when they are hurt, can be gentle, can be nurses and can mind babies." High school students will learn all about the terms pansexual, cisgender and transsexual.
omg slay
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Hope the part about gender violence goes over how 40% of domestic violence victims are men, how men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, and how men usually have zero domestic violence shelters they can access in the vast majority of cities.
And when they go over "male privilege", I hope they also go over the advantages that being female brings to a person, such as longer life expectancy, far more funding for gender-specific diseases, gender-specific grants and scholarships (even though the majority of homeless unemployed are men), having less rates of suicide, being several orders of magnitude less likely to be injured or die on the job, being more likely to get custody of children, and getting more lenient sentences than men for the same crimes with the same criminal history.
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fff girl GO somewhere 
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Australian schools are such a ****ing mess honestly. Teaching elementary kids about ****ography? What a joke
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Not sure how that works out but sounds cool. Good luck with that.
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Originally posted by Cookie
Australian schools are such a ****ing mess honestly. Teaching elementary kids about ****ography? What a joke
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That's part of the high school program.
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Originally posted by Artemisia
fff girl GO somewhere |
Do you have a problem with facts? Everything I posted is backed up by extensive research and real statistics. Why shouldn't schools paint the full picture instead of just indoctrinating students with feminist critical theory?
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Hope the part about gender violence goes over how 40% of domestic violence victims are men, how men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, and how men usually have zero domestic violence shelters they can access in the vast majority of cities.
And when they go over "male privilege", I hope they also go over the advantages that being female brings to a person, such as longer life expectancy (aka literally living more! probably the greatest privilege imaginable!), far more funding for gender-specific diseases, gender-specific grants and scholarships (even though the majority of homeless unemployed are men), having lower rates of suicide, being several orders of magnitude less likely to be injured or die on the job, being more likely to get custody of children, having the right to genital integrity at birth, and getting more lenient sentences than men for the same crimes with the same criminal history.
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Stop.
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 Teach them well and they will lead the way
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Hope the part about gender violence goes over how 40% of domestic violence victims are men, how men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, and how men usually have zero domestic violence shelters they can access in the vast majority of cities.
And when they go over "male privilege", I hope they also go over the advantages that being female brings to a person, such as longer life expectancy (aka literally living more! probably the greatest privilege imaginable!), far more funding for gender-specific diseases, gender-specific grants and scholarships (even though the majority of homeless unemployed are men), having lower rates of suicide, being several orders of magnitude less likely to be injured or die on the job, being more likely to get custody of children, having the right to genital integrity at birth, and getting more lenient sentences than men for the same crimes with the same criminal history.
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tragic
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Omg Australia has to be one of the most progressive places on Earth today
Not saying they're perfect ofc but this is great
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Originally posted by Cookie
Australian schools are such a ****ing mess honestly. Teaching elementary kids about ****ography? What a joke
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It doesn't say the ****ography talk is going to elementary kids, it's one of the topics in the range of ages and is probably aimed at the high schoolers.
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Hope the part about gender violence goes over how 40% of domestic violence victims are men, how men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime, and how men usually have zero domestic violence shelters they can access in the vast majority of cities.
And when they go over "male privilege", I hope they also go over the advantages that being female brings to a person, such as longer life expectancy (aka literally living more! probably the greatest privilege imaginable!), far more funding for gender-specific diseases, gender-specific grants and scholarships (even though the majority of homeless unemployed are men), having lower rates of suicide, being several orders of magnitude less likely to be injured or die on the job, being more likely to get custody of children, having the right to genital integrity at birth, and getting more lenient sentences than men for the same crimes with the same criminal history.
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You desparately wanna be oppressed. Nothing in this post is even factual
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Greasy might be exaggerating but he has a point. For example, men who have breast cancer have fewer resources available to them than women because the disease is assumed to be/overwhlemingly a female issue. Veteran homelessness also is a big problem in America (not Australia though).
Of course, it's not compared at all to what women go through, but the patriarchy affects both women and men.
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Originally posted by Cookie
You desparately wanna be oppressed. Nothing in this post is even factual |
Everything in that post is factual Please point out what isn't.
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