The Andrew Tate effect: a hidden curriculum of manosphere ideology in secondary schools
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines a hidden curriculum of manosphere ideology in secondary schools and its impact on students and educators. The analysis of twenty nine interviews with teachers, students, and administrators in Ontario, Canada, identified four themes. Findings indicate that boys often shape their sense of masculine identity by emulating manfluencers like Andrew Tate. Narratives of male victimhood, where boys view themselves as oppressed and blame women and girls for their perceived injuries, are common in schools. These attitudes manifest in sexist remarks and acts of violence directed toward female peers and educators. Additionally, existing social and economic inequities drive students toward manfluencers who promise control and success, offering simplistic solutions that resonate with boys seeking validation and direction. The findings reveal how online manosphere ideology infiltrates schools, becoming part of their institutional fabric, and highlights the need for addressing its influence and making the hidden curriculum explicit.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it