"[In the 19th century] As women continued to dominate teaching, the gender tables were turned, and a new concern arose: the fear that female teachers were "feminizing" boys."
Foundations of American Education, McGraw-Hill
It is terrifying to me to think that no matter how much we would like to think we’ve progressed as a culture, as a species, we really haven’t.
“If we allow Queer people to exist in public, or god forbid teach!, then surely they will make our children queer, too!“
Despite this particular rhetoric being 150 years old, the same ideology is still used today. People prophesied returning to a 1950s social stature after Mango Mussolini’s election, but truly we just continue to cycle through the same fights already, just with a fancy new hat each century.
