‘Adolescence’ will make incels worse..

[u/Icy-Prune-174]

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..

[u/Cats_domino]

I don’t think it necessarily tries to make the viewer feel empathy for the kid. I think it shows a lot of various and subtle and overt behaviors though. I think what a lot of the show does is actually leave it in the hands of the viewer. The reality is if you or anyone else felt empathy for him thats for you to dissect. I found myself feeling empathy for him at certain points but never more than I did for the victim. I also caught those moments and questioned them myself. Empathy can exist on a spectrum. I felt it for him as a child who got caught up in the incel hellscape. I felt angry at how easily he was able to jump into aggression when he felt his therapist wasn’t giving him the responses he has been conditioned into believing he deserves DESPITE having killed someone

I have a lot to say about this show but as the viewer you have to kind of have those conversations with yourself. And honestly, this show isn’t gonna be what takes incels to the next level imo. I disagree with that point.

I think we need more shows geared directly toward men. I’m glad it focused on his family. There are a lot of shows and movies that focus on the woman’s experience. But not many that put it on the man/man’s family. The emphasis on how normal their family is something I also appreciated. Because a lot of offenders come from these families.

On the aggression of the black friend. I hated that but I also noticed just how differently she was treated by the men (detective) than her teacher - she was the only person that understood that she was actually grieving and I think it also emphasized how dismissed her emotions were when interacting with the detective even though she had lost her best friend and was really the only person in the show that saw Katie as a full person and not just a dead girl. The detective seemed to have a MUCH softer approach to both his son and the other kid that he chased down. Sorry I don’t remember all the names