Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity • FRANCE 24 English

The Netherlands is following the UK in launching initiatives to show Netflix’s four-part series “Adolescence” in middle schools. Meanwhile, France’s education ministry ponders tighter controls on teens exposed to hate speech and online porn. We ask about a fiction inspired by real-life cases of boys who went so far as to murder girls.
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25 comments
  1. 😢 But ‘’Adolescence” is such a terrible film! The topic is there of toxic masculinity and the director had a great opportunity to give us insight. However, unfortunately, the film gave us no new knowledge as to why this phenomena exists.

  2. This is one more artificial social problem being fabricated by imperialist countries (US, France, UK…) to make society discriminate men who are single. Why? Because the bourgeoisie want men who agree with every unjust actions from these countries against other countries, and men who have families will not be against such aggressions because they don't want to put in risk their families against the authoritarian Western pseudo-democracies.

  3. This program was so racist and so disgusting. It was nothing but another attempt at pushing the agenda that all men are dangerous, driven by misogyny and racism. It's BS!

  4. To the présenter, please stop interrupting and mansplaining the guests. It doesn't matter that girls have more degrees, they are hired and paid less for their qualifications (and often sexually harassed). The Fox news 'jokes' were blatantly misogynistic, who would say this is a joke in 2025?

  5. A young white working class boy in a traditional aspirational family with working parents in a long standing living relationship from a small town is the very antithesis of violent toxic masculinity in the UK. A more typical killer of this age in the UK is black, second or third generation immigrant, lives in the inner-city, has been brought up by a mother on benefits, takes drugs, is a gang member and has not attended school regularly since he was 12. If he’s 15 or 16 he may well also be an absent father to a child being brought up by a girl of 14 who he describes as a ‘ho’. Funny thing is no one in the UK media world wants to make TV drama based on that reality.

  6. When you figure out what masculinity is, make another show coz nearly no one can define it.
    Then talk about its toxicity.

    But one thing for sure : society needs strong men and women.

  7. Another coordinated government Matrix attack targeting andrew tates influence who is simply teaching young men to be strong & build a critical thinking mindset 💪

  8. This is always so funny to me. Men and boys go to the manosphere because of women's actions. So much discussion about what to do with men and boys, but all it takes is a discussion about women's actions. Hold women accountable lol. Stop being misandrists and only fans models or girls that do the same thing for free. Look at unfair laws that affect men. Here's a few examples: if women can end a man's progeny without his consent then men should be able to end any financial support for an in utero specimen, child support laws should be adjusted, mandatory paternity tests on demand, more homeless shelters for men, better opportunities and grants for jobs and education to men and the list goes on. Blocking manosphere content won't stop this and sharing a show will help this 😂! So crazy but i love it. This won't really solve the problem 100% for online influence but since your members were so off the mark, the government should start an online platform that requires identification in order to participate in an online forum similar to twitter with absolute free speech guarantees. That way there's no hiding. It would take an entire book to explain the methods you're panelists were considering and how terrible that would backfire 😅. Ok, now there was maybe one second talking about women's actions in this entire show. Again, if you want to see changes in this debate, it's going to actually take discussing female toxicity, misandry, and watching manosphere content tbh in order to hear the concerns. Men have expectations in dating, interaction and long term relationships. Lastly stop fearmongering, the panel gets so much of the manosphere wrong its embarrassing. This channel and panel has no idea what misogyny and toxic masculinity even is. Here's an idea, get manosphere men to talk about it and even have feminists debate the topic. I have some really great suggestions of you would like that. Or not 😂 good luck

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