Extremisme incel i misogínia a les escoles d’Escòcia

In front of her pupils, a teacher recoils from a barrage of abuse. A teenage boy shouts that she’s “a f***ing pig” while others heckle her with animal noises.

In another school, a teacher tells a male student to stop disrupting a lesson. Sneering, he tells his pals: “Just because she’s got her period…”

Elsewhere, a group of boys gloat as they hand in essays on why women should all be the property of men.

These shocking examples of sexism come from new research, revealed in today’s Sunday Post, that exposes the growing misogyny in Scotland’s classrooms.

Incel ideology and sexism in schools

With female teachers and pupils facing frequent abuse and sexual taunts, academics and campaigners have highlighted the proliferation of incel ideology. Short for involuntarily celibate, it is the warped belief that blames women for men’s failings and disappointments, and whose followers seek payback through hatred and violence.

In recent weeks, incels have gained renewed prominence thanks to Netflix mini-series Adolescence in which 13-year-old Jamie Miller (played by Owen Cooper) is accused of killing classmate Katie (Emilia Holliday) having apparently been radicalised online.

Around the world, young men exposed to incel dogma have committed horrific acts of mass murder… Més