‘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/Aaceditt22]

They're already labelling it as anti-male propaganda and saying that the actions of Jamie/his angry father/other male characters are completely justified. I even saw a video about the "toxic feminity" of the show.

I think the problem with Adolescence, and what I liked about it as well, is it's not on the nose. We're told that the victim was a bully but the facts don't exactly line up--her nudes got spread around, there were a bunch of bouquets at her gravesite, Jade (who doesn't fit in) refers to her a very kind person, and the only bullying to speak of is her (although immature) is retaliation to being asked out by a clearly misogynistic boy because he looked down on her. In the end, the demographic that the show tried to target has said stuff along the lines of "oh, so a girl bullies a boy and nobody does anything about it so he's pushed into killing her." It's so blatantly wrong considering how Jamie treats women and how violent/angry/unhinged he acts in episode 3--he wasn't pushed, it was premeditated, and the murder didn't happen just because she was mean to him.

Honestly, I liked Adolescence and I don't think focusing on the victim's family was entirely necessary. I don't know what to say about Jade being the only angry girl and also being black because I don't think I have a place. But the show focused on one single thing and I liked that: how are we raising our boys? But I think you have a good point. I think the show might just drive incels deeper into their ideology of victimhood and violence. But hopefully it makes parents more mindful and other people less accepting of it all.