Jul 2, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
How do you manage when someone puts you on the spot and tries to bully you? Or if you're caught in a situation where you have to stand up for yourself without bursting into tears? In this episode…
Chidera EggerueHost
Someone said, "As a teacher, I've had older male students laugh and challenge me when I spoke about feminism, and it has been accompanied by an aggression that scared me and made me understand just how far their awfulness can go, and can sometimes destabilize the opposite person.
But we all definitely need skills in being stronger in the face of verbal aggression." See, what's tricky about this is that when you're a teacher, you can't really, like, clap back in the way that you want to, because you have to maintain an appropriate and professional atmosphere.
And it's really hard, because we're living in an age where children have more access to the internet than they've ever had.
Even teenagers and young men are probably the most misogynistic that they've ever been because of exposure to porn, exposure to dangerous male influences on the internet, and also living through a period where we are so comparative of ourselves to each other, and men comparing themselves to other men.
So I can imagine as a teacher it's a very difficult position to be in, because if I was thinking of myself in a scenario where, like, loads of men are being misogynistic towards me, I would genuinely have to just, like, walk out.
I would walk out, and I would still need to be compensated by the educational institution that's hired me, but I would actually walk out.
Because n- you can't reason men out of misogyny, especially when they're that damaged that they're actually mocking a woman while she's discussing feminism as their teacher.
But taking the context of being the teacher out of the conversation, and imagining yourself in a situation where a man is trying to verbally scare you, challenge you, and use passive and verbal aggression against you.
Someone said, "As a teacher, I've had older male students laugh and challenge me when I spoke about feminism, and it has been accompanied by an aggression that scared me and made me understand just how far their awfulness can go, and can sometimes destabilize the opposite person.
But we all definitely need skills in being stronger in the face of verbal aggression." See, what's tricky about this is that when you're a teacher, you can't really, like, clap back in the way that you want to, because you have to maintain an appropriate and professional atmosphere.
And it's really hard, because we're living in an age where children have more access to the internet than they've ever had.
Even teenagers and young men are probably the most misogynistic that they've ever been because of exposure to porn, exposure to dangerous male influences on the internet, and also living through a period where we are so comparative of ourselves to each other, and men comparing themselves to other men.
So I can imagine as a teacher it's a very difficult position to be in, because if I was thinking of myself in a scenario where, like, loads of men are being misogynistic towards me, I would genuinely have to just, like, walk out.
I would walk out, and I would still need to be compensated by the educational institution that's hired me, but I would actually walk out.
Because n- you can't reason men out of misogyny, especially when they're that damaged that they're actually mocking a woman while she's discussing feminism as their teacher.
But taking the context of being the teacher out of the conversation, and imagining yourself in a situation where a man is trying to verbally scare you, challenge you, and use passive and verbal aggression against you.
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