14 Apr 2025

Feature interview: the everyday toxic culture in classrooms

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 14 April 2025

The Netflix drama Adolescence is sparking a conversation about toxic masculinity and the radicalization of young boys from the online manosphere.  But our preoccupation with the extreme example of a 13 year old murdering his classmate overshadows the daily and more mundane expressions of misogyny in schools say  Dr Stephanie Wescott.

She's a former teacher and lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne.  She says female teachers and students are regularly sexually harassed by male students who follow influencers like Andrew Tate and offers advice to parents and educators about what we can do about it.