In her Grade 8 to Grade 12 classroom s, Annie Ohana sa ys ideas wit h toxic un dertones are often not far a way.
Like earlier this school year, when she was handing out cups for an activity, and a boy asked if any part of it would “lower [his] testosterone.” The student conceded he didn’t actually know what testosterone was or how it impacted his body but, Ohana says, he was familiar with the misinformation that circulates online that claims men who have low testosterone are less masculine.
“I know exactly where that kind of language comes from. It is very much from… the manosphere,” Ohana told CBC News.
"It seems like in the last couple years, the idea of the gender binary has gotten quite strong."
According to new data, Ohana isn’t the only teacher seeing similar, gendered ideas about the roles of boys and girls, and those that scapegoat women for problems, surface in the classroom.
A recent survey from Angus Reid and White Ribbon, a global campaign to end gende
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