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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sally Weale Education correspondent

Secondary schools in England to tackle ‘incel’ culture and teach positive role models

A young woman wearing headphones passes a bus shelter advert for the Netflix drama Adolescence
The recent Netflix drama Adolescence depicted a 13-year-old boy’s arrest for the murder of a female classmate. Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty Images

Secondary school pupils in England are to be taught about “incel” culture and the links between pornography and misogyny as part of long-awaited statutory government guidance due to be published on Tuesday.

It will include a new focus on positive role models for boys and challenge “myths about women and relationships that are spread online in the ‘manosphere’”, but will warn schools against “stigmatising boys for being boys”.

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