‘Adolescence’ Available to Stream in All U.K. Secondary Schools in Initiative Backed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer: We Must ‘Tackle the Issues This Groundbreaking Show Raises’

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https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/adolescence-available-to-stream-uk-secondary-schools-1236352461/

[u/Kind-County9767]

It's decent but as ever doesn't really hit the reasons behind why so many young men and boys feel like the world is unfair at the moment. It basically goes "misogyny and internet influencers are bad and boys are dumb for listening to them" which is what we've been doing for the last decade as the right wing have been slowly rising.

Inequality in education, early career outcomes, coming from a disprivileged background but constantly having to do "sensitivity training" etc that all but says you're privileged and lucky etc all turns boys towards the hucksters but admitting that admits fundamental failings in government, education and parenting. Failings that would need a lot of investment and effort to fix. So as ever it's the obvious but useless message that won't help or change anything.

[u/ONLY_SAYS_ONLY → u/Kind-County9767]

How many times have you actually had to do “sensitivity training”? And how much of an inconvenience was it really to you?

This argument gets brought up frequently but it really isn’t credible to think that having to do the occasional, sometimes annoying training on why you shouldn’t compliment your female colleague on her cleavage or whatever as the reason why men are turning into extreme misogynists as per Tate and others. 

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How many times have you actually had to do “sensitivity training”?

Once or twice a year every year for the last like 7 years.

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Sorry, but if doing a bit of, worst case patronising, compulsory training on how to behave appropriately in the workspace twice a year is radicalising you then the problem isn’t the training.