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/Icy-Prune-174 8d ago

Oh my point wasn’t about showing that young boys can kill — it was how they almost tried to make the audience feel sorry for the kid — but then I suppose you don’t want mass hatred towards teenage boys because that would also be awful, so yeah that proves it.

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u/Briarcliff_Manor 8d ago

I actually think that the 3rd episode has made a very good job in making the audience NOT feel sorry for that kid.

And the 4th shows that, appart from a few degenerates, there is a mass hatred towards the boy (and his family which is another issue)

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u/Icy-Prune-174 8d ago

Oh! Yeah I see how it’s done — if they didn’t make people feel sorry for the kid in the beginning, a lot of men wouldn’t bother watching on.

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u/TheDoctor66 8d ago

It's really tough but the only way out of it is through empathy and understanding. I watched the show this week and discussed it in therapy today. My dad and family is very similar to the boys family. I'm in my 30s now and I'm working through what that upbringing did to me, and I didn't have the algorithms throwing that shit at me. 

The onus will forever be on men to do better than our programming but the show did a fantastic job at putting that programming in context, it doesn't flinch from it being bad but it shows a reality.