In it, repairman Eddie (Stephen Graham) and his wife Manda (Christine Tremarco) break down in each other’s arms as they go over the reasons why their son Jamie (Owen Cooper) might have murdered a young girl in his school.
Graham penned the four-part series with His Dark Materials screenwriter Jack Thorne after hearing about the stabbings of two girls – 12-year-old Ava White from Liverpool and 15-year-old Croydon teenager Elianne Andam.
In a report published earlier this month titled Lost Boys, the Centre for Social Justice warns that modern boyhood has gone horribly awry. The independent think-tank points to some startling facts: Boys in the UK are “struggling in education, more likely to take their own lives, less likely to get into stable work, and far more likely to be caught up in crime”. While young women are increasingly progressive, their male counterparts are signing up to right-wing and ultra-conservative, regressive ideologies.
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It would be easy to blame the manosphere for this dire predicament. That’s partly what Adolescence implies, with mentions of incels and teenage boys “taking the red pill”, much to the bewilderment of coppers and parents who aren’t as steeped in internet culture as their own children.
This is not to downplay the threat of online radicalisation or the shocking levels of misogyny on the internet. But there are plenty of young men who don’t succumb to the siren call of Tate and the manosphere – we should be asking what makes a person vulnerable to their influence in the first place.
The police officers question Jamie’s friends at his school – a chaotic institution in which cyber bullying runs riot and teachers are checked out. “These kids are f**king impossible,” one exasperated male teacher says. “What am I supposed to do?” This, I think, gets closer to the heart of what ails young boys.
Now throw in a soupçon of toxic influencer ideology and supercharge everything by hooking it up to the internet. It’s easy to hyperfixate on the last two steps as the two newest components for young male alienation.
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Read MoreThe truth is that it usually comes delivered with a side of cheerfully anodyne subjects – goofy pranks, health and fitness, gaming chat, self-help tips, travel content and more – which helps to sugarcoats the rancid stuff about women and minorities. The question is why some are able to develop a discerning ear while others can’t.
Violent misogyny wasn’t invented overnight. In 2010, the now-defunct Zoo magazine printed advice from actor and advice columnist Danny Dyer telling a heartbroken reader that he should “cut his ex’s face so no one will want her”. Dyer said he was misquoted and does not condone violence against women.
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