Will Knowland, 35, was sacked and referred to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) after posting a lecture on Youtube challenging the theory of toxic masculinity .
An Eton teacher who was sacked over a lecture attacking radical feminist orthodoxy has said controversy is essential in education and claimed he s received support from Tory ministers.
Will Knowland was removed from his role at the prestigious Berkshire school after posting a lecture on Youtube challenging so-called modern feminist views about toxic masculinity .
The lecture, in which the English teacher quoted an article saying women wanted to be overwhelmed by the sheer power of masculinity , was prepared for older pupils at the £42,500-a-year school.
But he was sacked after he repeatedly refused requests from the college s head master Simon Henderson to take the video down.
Misogyny and Manosphere Spreading To Playgrounds and Is a Terror Threat , Author Says
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Children are being targeted online through chat rooms, memes and viral videos by groups that welcome extreme acts of violence against women and we should be far more worried about it than we are, says author and campaigner Laura Bates.
The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, started in 2012 to collate women s experiences of sexism, spent months undercover in the darkest depths of the internet to lift a lid on the manosphere , an online community made up of various sub-groups including men s rights activists, pick-up artists, incels or involuntary celibates who blame their lack of sexual activity on women, and MGTOWs, the men going their own way who have vowed to abandon all romantic relationships with women and believe society has been destroyed by feminism.