Please note that this is a meeting for practitioners our RAN Youth & Education (Y&E) Working Group meeting, we are looking for youth workers, teachers and other relevant experts. Practitioners who can provide concrete examples from their daily practices, or who are observing polarisation phenomena around concepts of masculinity among their pupils, are invited to respond to this call for previous RAN meetings, youth professionals were seen to be struggling with increasingly negative and problematic attitudes among male pupils towards their female counterparts or LGBTQIA+ youngsters. These attitudes are said to come from the so-called ‘Manosphere’, a popular part of (online) youth culture that revolves around idealisation of hypermasculinity. In recent years, this has led to various conflicts online, in classrooms and in youth work organisations, and has even been mentioned in debates about misogyny and extremism. In this meeting, we will investigate how youth professionals can deal with polarisation around this narrative.