Education - Gender Identity

Gender Identity

Verbal Abuse

• Lees - boys called girls 'slags' if they appeared to be sexually available, and 'drags' if they didn't.
• Parker - boys were called 'gay' if they seemed friendly with girls.

Male Peer Groups

Mac an Ghaill - Working Class 'macho lads' were dismissive of other Working Class boys who worked hard and aspired to Middle Class careers, calling them '******** Achievers'. 

Teachers and Discipline

• Haywood and Mac an Ghaill - male teachers told boys off for 'behaving like girls' and teased them when they gained lower marks than…