Should troops be taught about misogyny?

My dad (when he was a copper) once looked at transferring onto a job that involved being attached to the army and essentially investigating / rooting out people who had violated certain rules

One of the things he was warned about is that a lot of the public are uncooperative and negative toward any criticism of the army. He was told to prepare for a lot of unpleasant behaviour from typically respectable people when gathering evidence or asking to interview people

What I'm saying is, we do have one of the best trained & respectful armies in the world, but the argument "they're already perfect, leave them alone" doesn't work because the reason any organisation is respectable is because they keep on top of stuff, root out the bad bits early on, and don't get complacent

I find it a bit sad that anyone needs to be taught about misogyny, or any form of equality really. Are most men born naturally misogynistic? Is it part of the competitive side that comes from testosterone? Or is it something they're learning from parents and relatives?

Not sure if any of you watched Children in Need on Friday. One of the causes that money had previously been spent on was a class for teenagers about misogyny. One of them spoke about how they'd seen negative social media posts about women and believed them to be true. (Presumably from AT and similar). I honestly had no idea this was even a thing in the modern world, but it seems to be getting worse, rather than better.

For what it's worth, I grew up around a lot of women, and never thought of them as any less or any different. But I did note the amount of bias they had against other traits. So it seems to be a human thing to be judging each other and trying to 'one-up' constantly? Though I fully appreciate that in general, men pose more of a physical risk to women than the other way round.

When it comes to forces I think there's a contradiction here. How do we teach someone to kill another human while also teaching them that every human is equal?

@Chris75_

I think both sexes should be taught to respect each other

Lots of men are sexist but as someone with gender dysphoria issues much of my mental health & suicidal behaviours were caused by society telling me I'm a horrible person because of my gender

Anyone who points a finger at someone (who doesn't identify with any gender and sees people as individuals and doesn't care about gender) saying "YOU'RE A FILTHY PERSON" till they want to kill themselves is as deplorable than the misogynists from the 60s, or even the ones who went round the world in boats and wore helmets with horns in them 😆

you should hear what the women call the guys. I served for 28 years

we all have a heart

We all have feelings

I would never stand for it from either sex.

I don't even want to think about it!