The 80/20 Rule, the Misogynistic Theory of "Adolescence": What We Really Know About Relationships Between Men and Women

The conversation we need to have about ‘Adolescence’

The furor over the provocative new Netflix miniseries “Adolescence” — which centers around a 13-year-old boy’s fictitious murder of a female classmate — has kickstarted an important conversation about boys and manosphere influences. The clamor aligns with the prevailing worldview that boys are becoming, or are vulnerable to becoming, violent misogynists. Not only does this one-dimensional mindset lack broader nuance and context. It lacks any und…

By Manuela Castro, CNN en Español “Match, match, match”, the phone doesn’t stop ringing. Minutes ago, she and her friend proposed a challenge: to open the dating app and see how many “coincidences” each achieves, in the same period. They do it for fun and “for the love of science,” they say, but the result seems obvious to them. He looks at his screen and only sees the reflection of his face, not a single notification arrives. And so the experim…

Adolescence: The Kids Aren’t Alright

Young men believe that society lied to them — the world is rigged to suppress maleness and undermine their dominance. Rejection by women seems to offer the red-pilled young man of today a choice: will he remain involuntarily celibate or assert his power as an alpha male? They are not given a more adequate framework of how to respond. Before boys have a chance to become men, the messaging is that they must be accepted as one already. The perceive…