Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.
The four-part Netflix series includes themes of incel culture, mysogyny, and the treatment of women.
Jamie, who is played by the actor Owen Cooper, is bullied on social media, made to feel ugly and rejected, and is exposed to incel ideas and messages as well as warped views on sexual violence.
“Incel” is a shortening of the term “involuntarily celibate”. It is a fast-growing safeguarding issue in schools. The term has been adopted by a growing group of predominantly white men and boys, who use websites to discuss misogynistic and violent views about women which they have as a result of feeling rejected by them.
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