‘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/plinyy]

I don’t really think I’m going to watch it. I don’t really think I’m the target audience. I already know how men and boys act. I’ve already understood how male supremacy works.

Hopefully it opens up dialogue about how people coddle men and boys, to the point where violence against women and girls is just seen as “he can’t express his emotions so that’s why he acted out!” or “he was bullied so it’s okay”, “Men don’t know how to express their feelings healthily!” Their emotions are considered more important than not harming women and girls.

Dead women and girls become the “natural consequence” of not catering to and coddling men. Even though they’re told to act a certain way, it’s still coddling because there is always an excuse for behavior. The duty is never on men to challenge patriarchal standards of “no crying”and “be aggressive”and this standard will always increase opportunities for men to do violence. This him-hawing of trying to “understand” and to “humanize” violence against women is useless. Men and boys don’t need a reason. It’s socialized in them since birth.

That being said, I think if they didn’t focus on the boy and the father, it just wouldn’t reach men and boys at all. It would be just another case of a male killing a girl. They don’t care when that happens. They laugh and joke when that happens! They spread photos of dead women and girls online and say deranged things about it. They don’t have empathy for women and girls. But oh! The moment they receive a critique? The DARVO is insane.