What Adolescence Gets Wrong

What Adolescence Gets Wrong

Alek Minassian was an awkward kid in my high school. He’d meow at students in the cafeteria and could never look a woman in the eye. “I’m afraid of girls,” he often declared unprompted in a high-pitched childish voice. Most students thought it was a weird verbal tick.He was odder than the typical teenager at Thornlea Secondary School, a brutalist sixties creation whose forbidding architecture—rumour had it—had been designed to reduce distraction…

Quillette: “What ‘Adolescence’ Gets Wrong.”

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Badenoch, Starmer, ‘Adolescence’, and the ignored problem of religious misogyny - The Freethinker

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, was recently confronted by the presenters of BBC Breakfast in a…

Netflix and Beeld & Geluid are teaming up to turn the series Adolescence into teaching material for Dutch schools. A decision that seems noble at first glance — using art to make social themes discussable. But if you look a little further than the beautiful cinematography, you will find a different story. A story in which nuance is lacking, ideology takes over and young men are reduced to caricatures of a ‘problem group’.