"Why all are speaking about 'Adolescence,'" a Netflix series? It can be seen that what they are speaking is not speaking fully.
Many articles speak of it as a wakeup call for good parenting. If parenting is taken in a wide sense, of course, it is right. Instead, if they points only to their character, behaviour, and their quarrels and anger issues, they speak very less than what needs to be spoken.Primarily, 'the system' itself is unaware of the world of the 'adolescent' or the online world of people whatever age they may be. There are preferred worlds for them. There is a language, community, values, interactions in that chosen world.
Unliked, unloved, unaccepted, or abused children are Liked, Friended, and loved. Parental emptiness, or belong-nowhere get a filling source online. The breakdown of family and society had been happening even before with various reasons. But those voids were filled with toxic ointments online.
The Series points to the incel (involuntary celibate) groups. The basic belief contains that the women are highly selective and there is a possibility of being rejected. 'I am ugly' is an expression of this feeling of being 'sexually' rejected. So, a 'manosphere' in which a male uprising happens is seen as a solution.
Incel, whether it refers to sexual acceptance or various aspects it involves today, cannot addressed just within the deficiency of parenting. What the articles do not speak is about the standards on which the bullying, the denial, and the rejection are maintained.
Society needs to see the conversations, priorities it builds and maintains for whatever benefit. A denial, humiliation, of friendship, or 'sexual' acceptance base itself on race, colour, nationality, language, religion etc. As 'selection' is highly dependent on these factors, the same factors gathers them into rebellious, reactionist, and even violent online communities. Often they have shown themselves in the real world causing injuries and murders.
If society prefers to form governmental, political and educational system maintaining the hateful separations, and such conversations happen in families incels are not born out of 'personal' quarrels and anger of parents. Jamie's father tells 'we made him' cannot refer to him and his wife alone. it is the society and culture that made him.
What are the ways people, especially the children and the youth, feel they are ugly, unworthy, and get 'red-pilled,' find helpless in 'blackpill,' and get into nonexistence if they are 'blue-pilled'? How do religions and politics maintain and use these incel groups for their advantage?
We need to speak more, and speak sincerely and wholly. Only honest conversations can bring out a healthy generation online and offline.
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