What have I just read?
Men who want to work with children are ‘weird’?
FFS.
I can’t even begin with this.
My perspective is that most adults like spending their time doing "adult" things, not playing kids games or trying to control groups of children. The caveats are one's own children and that women are much more drawn to and good at nurturing than men are (as a rule, obviously, not in every case).
As a man I do not want to work with kids because I want to be thinking and doing adult things. I have never - and I swear this is true - seen any indication from any man, ever, that spending time with other people's kids is enjoyable. One does it because you have to at barbecues, and someone has to run the under 11 team your son plays on so it might as well be you, or the quite like explaining things to others and they find teaching easier to get into than adult education. I have NEVER met a man who has ever given me any indication that hanging around with other people's kids is something they would actively choose to do. In fact more common is my perspective... if you want me to teach Primary then I need £200k per year (despite earning much less than that in my current job).
As I made clear, maybe my perspective is all wrong, but I honestly think most men want to watch adult stuff and have adult chats, and time with other people's kids is one of the big downsides of having your own. I am suspicious of any man who wants to teach.
When I think of my own middle school there was only one male teacher (I was never in his class). All the girls loved him and all the boys were terrified. How and why was that? My son had one male teacher in primary - by far the worst (at teaching), least empathetic and most disliked of all the teachers my son has had.
I am not saying all men, and I think women who want to work with kids are weird too, just not as weird because they are naturally much more nurturing on average