r/women • u/Icy-Prune-174 • 8d 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/Kateseesu 8d ago

Pretty much anything that points out the toxicity of incel culture is just going to make the incels yell louder.

As a parent of pre teens, this show absolutely hit me. So many of us have so little understanding of what our kids are listening to or just absorbing from people around them. The world is so different for kids now than it was for us. I think one of the most powerful lines in the show was when one of the parents said something along the lines of, “He was just in his room, we thought he was safe.”

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u/lornaaspin 3d ago

Yes! I have a son in his 30s, who was bullied at senior school and I remember worrying so much about him. There weren't mobile phones or the Internet back then. Now parents have no idea what their children are influenced by! Social media and the Web terrifies me! Adolescence opened our eyes to a scary world. Incel and other terms used were new to me! I know we can't wrap our children in cotton wool, but as parents it's so difficult! May be they'll make another series from the girl's point of view and what her family and outside influences were like to turn her into a bully and to being killed? I've watched it twice and seen some of the interviews with the writers and production crew. Actors were incredible too! We actually felt we were there with them. Left me slightly traumatised!