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Female Teachers Risk Wrecking Masculinity in Boys

The trouble they are asking for is that of wrecking masculinity in boys.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2001, from Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, cited to the source.

When boys are being taught by a staff which is largely composed of women, effeminacy can unwittingly be encouraged. The women expect boys to receive discipline in the same way that the women received it. […] If this does not happen, the women on staff can be helping to raise a generation of passive manipulators. […] [I]f those who are instructing them have egalitarian assumptions, and they teach the boys and girls as though there were no difference between them, then they are asking for trouble. The trouble they are asking for is that of wrecking masculinity in boys.

— Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, Canon Press, 2001, Chapter 13: “School Work”