Males that work in female dominant environments; what are some of the things that have happened where if the roles get reversed there would be uproar?

Bit late and a bit different but here's mine.

I'm a high school teacher. Leadership at my school is female dominated which isn't uncommon in Australian schools. It's great, but I'm finding a mostly female leadership team has echo-chamber effects and has shown me for the first time the need for diversity from a different angle (all women isn't good, for example, you need balance - despite the fact it's great to have more women in leadership roles in society). Just for reference, I am a man and I am a staunch feminist.

We teach the child protective curriculum here in our home groups. This covers topics such as consent, equality, recognising abuse etc. Really good stuff and very important.

We have a mostly male cohort which means some home groups are all boys. The curriculum teaches power and abuse to them as concepts and has examples that are specific to all genders dynamics. It includes ways to help boys to recognise abuse in relationships (girlfriend always asking who you're with, alienating you from your mates, threatening self harm etc).

I called out a woman in leadership a few weeks ago because she was claiming that we shouldn't be teaching power dynamics as a concept, and should be teaching boys solely about scenarios in which boys are perpetrators and girls are victims. Her reasoning was that the vast majority of abuse (I assumed she meant physical and sexual) are perpetrated my boys. They absolutely are, and it's disingenuous to assert that there is balance in the genders when it comes to being abuse perpetrators, but that doesn't make it ok to ignore teachings about this because of statistics. I myself have a good mate who lost a decade of his life to a relationship with an abusive female partner, and he would have benefitted from these teachings greatly.

The very idea that we shouldn't discuss scenarios in which males can be victims just because it usually (understatement) doesn't go that way is ludicrous. I called her on it and was responded to in a surprisingly hostile way by a few other women. Despite the fact I'm a feminist, I felt like I was being lumped in with MRA idiots simply because I was arguing for teaching this stuff from a male-victims perspective as well as recognising problematic masculine behaviour.

All boys home groups are a space to learn this stuff. It's not hijacking discussions about women's issues. It's not minimalizing women's struggles. It's just adding an often-unspoken perspective, and the mostly-female leadership teams opposition to it worried me a bit.

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