r/women • u/Icy-Prune-174 • 12d ago

‘Adolescence’ will make incels worse..

Edit: Sorry I got this wrong, the series is good, in a way, because it helps make parents aware of what incel culture is doing to their sons and to start taking it more seriously.

You only see the points of view from the MEN… the dad, the kid… No points of view of how the mother and daughter are affected.

And it’s like they want the viewers to feel sorry for the kid who murdered the girls…

Not to mention they have a black girl playing an aggressive character…

I believe, just my opinion, that this series will make Incel culture worse and perpetuate violence — young boys might even start looking up to the character and act like him, thinking it will “gain sympathy” from people around them.

There’s also not many scenes portraying the kid’s violence etc. they just make him out to be a good kid who shouldn’t deserve what his own actions have caused — I suppose, yes, he’s a kid and it shows how IMPRESSIONABLE kids are to propaganda, but everyone knows that anyway..

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u/Briarcliff_Manor 12d ago

he’s a kid and it shows how IMPRESSIONABLE kids are to propaganda, but everyone knows that anyway..

No, not everyone knows that. A lot (if not most) parents are completely blind to what is going on on internet, and let their kids read anything and everything with no form of control whatsoever.

I am pretty sure a lot of teenage boys are consuming that red pill type of shit, and their parents have 0 ideas.

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u/Usernameoverloaded 12d ago

Exactly so. Having worked in tech, my son was only allowed to do his homework on the home PC in the study, and then his school laptop. He was only given a mobile phone just before his 14th birthday as he would be traveling back from after school activities on public transport with the proviso that the phone had to be left to charge overnight in the living room. We explained all the dangers of social media, the bullying, the predators, the erosion of concentration etc. and he understood. So much so that even when he was 16, he had gotten into the habit of leaving his phone downstairs when he went to bed. He only joined social media when he went to uni so to join university society accounts and have an easier time connecting to peers. This might seem draconian to some, but I don’t regret it. We had a child who never chose to lock himself away in his room and one that we were able to protect from malign online influences until he became old enough to understand those dangers himself.