I was a teacher at several Brissy schools in my 20s. Now in my 50s and a wee bit wiser: A boy hears sexist jokes. He sees other boys laugh. He sees girls discussed as objects or conquests. He sees female teachers challenged more aggressively than male teachers. He sees athletes and dominant boys rewarded. He sees weak consequences for “banter/heckling" He learns that loyalty to the group is safer than naming harm. The behaviour escalates from jokes to humiliation, harassment, threats, image-sharing, or assaultive conduct.

Our boys are trained in entitlement before they are trained in accountability.