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Is Adolescence a bit too real?
So Adolescence is this Netflix show that's absolutely blowing up and getting crazy amounts of attention at the moment. It's on track to become Netflix's most watched miniseries of all time. And that's just within a couple of weeks. So it's really capturing public attention. And one caller into a radio station that I heard from England this morning said that it just it hits people.
home too much it's a little too real and this kind of left me floundering a little bit because okay you know creative people who are making a show i'm not going to hold their feet to the fire they have creative license they can make a show and depict whatever they want but we just need to hit pause a second because if this show is prompting round table discussions with parliament with the prime minister which it has and the parliament are going to fund
this show being shown to every student in the UK throughout the next couple of months, all within a couple of weeks of it airing, by the way, then I think we're entitled to maybe scrutinize the realism or the realistic nature of the show or how much it depicts accurately the problem it's talking about. And on that front, then, you can ask the question, how realistic is this problem? So
Let me just be very clear. There is no epidemic of manosphere-inspired violence like depicted in the show. Unlike, however, the epidemic of knife violence, which is a very real phenomenon and perhaps is more tightly tied to drill music, for example. That is a very real problem. So on that front, it absolutely is not realistic of the problem it's painting.
I commented that the show depicts a plausible narrative of how a tragedy like this might unfold. And I stress the word might there because there has been no tragedy like the show depicts. It's a fictional boy stabbing a fictional girl in a fictional series. There has been no 13-year-old white kid who's getting good grades in school, not causing much trouble, suddenly going and stabbing a girl.
Because of exclusively because of in cell manosphere content coming from a good family, blah, blah, blah.
Exactly. So when I say that the show depicts something plausible, here's what I mean. So instead of depicting a cold blooded psychopathic killer, and it's up for debate whether Jamie, the boy in the show, is meant to be depicted as a psychopath. I tend to think no, but there may be some reason to think yes.
But it doesn't depict this cold-blooded, calculated killer who's... And the show doesn't claim to have a straight-line answer that it definitely was the manosphere influence that made this happen. It kind of skillfully, I think, presents a couple of potentially contributing factors.
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