Coleman Spilde is right. Essential tv for all: "I’d go as far as to say that "Adolescence" should be required viewing for all teenagers, & certainly a condition of having a phone. If a teen wants to be tapped into the digital echo chamber, they have to know what it can do to them. Goodwill & hope that parents will raise their children correctly aren’t enough when the worlds inside of their phones can undo all of that learning."

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/18/adolescence-explores-the-dark-consequences-of-teenage-boys-being-radicalized-online/

#ToxicMasculinity
#Incel
#Adolescence

Netflix's "Adolescence" shows what could happen when teenage boys are radicalized online

The third episode of "Adolescence" finds misogyny rooted online, and parents shouldn't look away

Salon.com

@cindyweinstein Kemi Badenoch, the British Tory Leader, refuses to watch the show, but believes a racist conspiracy theory about it. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

She is an utter clown

#AdolesceneNetflix #Misogyny #Patriarchy #KemiBadenoch

@Lazarou

I've read about that racist conspiracy nonsense. Funny how one can have such a strong opinion about a show without watching it.

@cindyweinstein whatever Labour does she's automatically opposed to, Starmer says he's seen it, she does the opposite. It's pathetic.
And so petulant as well, like how dare we ask if she's seen the show everyone is talking about, how dare she relate to an experience millions of us have been through, the audacity! /s

@Lazarou

And here she is in all of her idiocy:
"So, people can do whatever they like in fiction. The prime minister should not be building policy on fiction. He should be building policy on reality. What is the reality? Phones are disrupting schools & not enough schools have effective bans."

If she had watched the show, she would know that Episode 2 has a lot to say about phones and classroom disruption.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/01/uk-politics-labour-conservatives-trump-tariffs-trade-deal-keir-starmer-latest-news

Kemi Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence but admits she hasn’t watched it – as it happened

Conservative party leader says she believes show β€˜is based on real story’, a claim described as wholly untrue by writer and co-creator of series

the Guardian
@cindyweinstein how dare we expect her to have watched something she's giving an opinion on, we are all terrorists for suggesting that! /s

@Lazarou

How I miss a world (I think such a world existed) in which critical thinking mattered and was supported.