UK Schools to give boys anti-misogyny lessons to stop toxic masculinity in wake of Netflix hit Adolescence

Schools are set to give students anti-misogyny lessons in the wake of hit Netflix TV show Adolescence about a teen boy who murders a female classmate.

The classes form part of the government's new relationships, health and sex education (RHSE) guidance, which will be introduced before the end of the academic year.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer revealed at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that he was watching the mini-series with his two teenagers - and that he backs the show creators' calls for it to be shown in parliament and schools.

The four-episode programme follows the Miller family, whose lives are torn apart when their 13-year-old son Jamie is arrested for stabbing a female classmate to death after being influenced by online misogyny.

The drama, released ten days ago, was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide last weekend, gripping audiences with its sobering portrayal of how social media and misogynistic influencers can impact young boys.

Though Labour's classroom guidance is still being developed, it is understood to include content to 'support healthy relationships', to 'enable schools to tackle harmful behaviour and ensure that misogyny is stamped out and not allowed to proliferate', an insider source said, the Times reported.

From as early as primary school, children will be encouraged to 'express and understand boundaries, handle disappointment and pay attention to the needs and preferences of oneself and others', with content modified for older children to reflect the 'real-life complexities of romantic and sexual relationships', the source added.

The development comes as a win for the Netflix show's co-writers, Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham - who stars as the teen boy's father - who have said they wanted Adolescence to be a programme that 'causes discussion and makes change'.

The new guidance will encourage students to 'think about what healthy sexual relationships involve' - including 'consent', along with 'kindness, attention and care'.

As children progress to secondary school, classroom content will start to include the 'communication and ethics' needed for healthy romantic and sexual relationships.

Topics covered will range from dynamics of power and vulnerability, to tools to manage 'difficult emotions', like disappointment and anger, that can affect relationships.

The effects of misogynistic online content and pornography on both young people's sexual behaviour and their views of relationship norms will also be discussed.

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has faced pressure to overturn RSHE guidance drafted by the previous Conservative government - which included bans on sex education for children under nine and discussions of gender identity.

Adolescence was praised last week by the parents of a survivor of the Southport stabbings for drawing attention to the 'terrifying' impacts of online misogynistic content on young men.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, stabbed their daughter - known as Child A - more than 30 times during his brutal attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July last year. He killed three young girls - and was jailed for life in January.

The parents, in a statement read out by their MP during a debate on knife crime in the House of Commons on Thursday, said influencers like Andrew Tate are having a 'terrifying' impact on teen boys, who needed to be protected from this content.

Rudakubana cleared most of his online search history before the murders - so it is not known whether he viewed any content associated with Tate.

Triple murderer Kyle Clifford - who shot his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt and her sister Hannah with a crossbow and stabbed their mother Carol - is known to have viewed Tate's videos before making his ferocious attacks.

Teachers were told in government guidance released last year to look out for signs of misogyny and 'incel culture' in students aged 14 and over, which could lead to sexual abuse, violence and suicide.

The education secretary warned teachers to watch out for teen boys who had been indoctrinated by 'manosphere' influencers into 'hating women'.

Last week, former England football manager Sir Gareth Southgate blasted 'callous, manipulative and toxic influencers' for leading young men towards misogyny.

At the BBC's annual Richard Dimbleby lecture, he said the 'sole drive' of these pernicious online creators is their 'own gain': 'They willingly trick young men into believing that success is measured by money or dominance, that strength means never showing emotion, and that the world, including women, is against them.'

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[crazedaze]

I believe the interests of young men should come before women always, forever and without exception. A man's dignity, self respect and sense of self regard is worth more than the life of every woman who has ever lived.

And yes I know you are a radfem.

She basically would prefer a world where men don't exist

you are a stupid fucking faggot. Just thought you should know

 

[AnotherPleb]

It's very disheartening to see how public opinion has reduced young men's issues to misogyny alone. What's worse is that they've made enormous faggots like Andrew Tate the heads of the problem. Seriously, i had never even heard of the guy before, and the only times i see his name typed out is through outrage articles like these.

The hatred of women is a symptom, not the cause. But this is what these people focus on. I've said it before, but the reason they will never get the support they want is because they can't even begin to pretend they actually care about males.

"It's okay to be angry, just don't be angry at women and bipoc! It's not their fault you're mediocre!"

Never any talk about depression, about suicide rates, hopelessness about the future, isolation... And on the rare chance any of those are acknowledged, it's prefaced with "First of all, you have to admit that as a man, you are privileged, okay?" Aka "Your problems come second, maybe third."

It doesn't take a genius to see how that approach will push these kids towards the exact opposite of what you represent. It's shocking how they can't see this.

It's a culturewide shit test.

 

[Kiwisee]

Just for everyone who doesn't know, radfems otherwise known as radical feminists are a specious breed of hyper online feminists that emulate a great deal of racist rhetoric used by the alt right, a seething resentment against men, and often comical degrees of frustrated bitterness-leading to inane fantasies about "killing all men' and "why FDS makes you a Kween!!"

Shut up, Paki. You're just bitter cause you’re genetic dead ender.

 

[Ishtar]

Shut up, Paki. You're just bitter cause you’re genetic dead ender.

Looks like I struck a nerve.

Radfems are hilariously easy to bait.

 

[Kiwisee]

Looks like I struck a nerve.

Why would it? You're not white so therefore your opinions are discarded.

 

[Ishtar]

Why would it? You're not white so therefore your opinions are discarded.

You Radfems really did just swallow Pol rhetoric whole didn’t you lol.

 

[The Noise]

I've explained repeatedly that it's definitely not that, and you've not even watched the show. The number one issue is kids being left to their own devices on the internet and smartphones - something the show stresses pretty much everyone treats as normal - and schools turning into hellish Lord Of The Flies situations with underresourced disengaged teachers (and those that do care can't control the feral kids).

If you don't believe me, go watch the "niggercattle dogshit" so you can judge for yourself. It's only four episodes. But if you're not willing to watch it and just want to condemn it because Fox News told you what it was about, your opinions on this are irrelevant because you're a reactionary windowlicker NPC who repeats what he's told.

I don't think this is aimed at young men/boys at all. It's aimed at parents to make them aware of what their teenage boys might be doing online and what it leads to. A great point is when the dad asks why a 13 year old boy would consider himself an incel, it's normal at that age to not have sex. But because these boys all watch pornography from age 9 they think it's not normal, that they should be having sex. This is something that parents need to talk to their kids about.


And there's a reason for that, most school shooters are white boys. Have you ever read an incel forum? They all revel in violent fantasies, praise mass shooters and celebrate women and girls being raped and murdered. They talk about wanting to molest their sisters and cousins. They stalk girls from their school that they like, they make porn of them. Why is it more important to think about how they feel and not important to protect women and girls from being hurt by these boys? Well spare me the answer I already know.

You're talking to a radfem, a creature more vile than the average troon.

Radfems are motivated by a volcanic hatred of nature itself, a seething fury that the they exist in a world in which nature decreed their eternal inferiority.

not sure how this devolved into the forum's gayest niggers flinging shit at each other (not you @AssignedEva you're cool) but nobody is denying that incels exist and are radicalized to do violence. the reason people take issue with Adolescence is because of the context of the country it's being made and promoted in.

the UK is quite literally in shambles; not sensationalized news article shambles, genuine shambles. the average britbong has zero purchasing power and is ruled over by a government made up exclusively of political parties that regard them as second class citizens.

their entire country is occupied by a hostile invasion force of third world immigrants who follow a religion that says killing people who aren't them gets you rewarded in heaven and is morally righteous. eight years ago, terror attacks in the UK and europe at large were so rare that they were multi-day events and people would change their profile pictures on social media in a show of solidarity. nowadays, knife attacks, acid splashes, and trucks of peace being run into crowds are so common that they're regarded with indifference and a thing you just have to live with. brown pedophiles who don't speak english and actual murderers are given slaps on the wrist while native british citizens are given years in jail for saying mean words online and protesting this state of affairs. the average bong is treated as an undesirable in their own country, second to paki rape gangs and muslim terrorists who terrorize them with impunity and the full support of the government.

the british government's reaction to all of this is "you know what the real problem is? incels!" and they're peddling some fucking netflix show where a white British boy stabs a girl to death. as if white british boys are forming gangs who walk around britain and rape and kill women and get suspended sentences, or killing people in mass stabbing attacks in broad fucking daylight, or sharing around child porn and getting suspended sentences because the judge things sending people to jail is mean. they're literally making up a fictional story and treating it as so endemic that the government is getting involved and recommending it be shown in schools. parliment is gaslighting their native population into thinking that 13 year old white british boys are the REAL issue. like @The Ugly One said, regardless of the actual quality of the show, it's a deflection.

and again, nobody is denying that young people get radicalized on the internet enough to go out and kill people, but it's an incorrect order of operations. it's a slap to the face for native bongs who are literally being harassed and killed by terrorists while the government acts like some pet social issue is the REAL current thing. it's disgraceful.

 

[Spud]

(aka not rape and murder people).

What's funny is that the vast majority of guys rape and murder as many people as they want to everyday. That amount is zero and we punish the people who do it, if deep down we wanted to do that would we have laws that states you're not allowed to?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

but nobody is denying that incels exist and are radicalized to do violence

Were there more outright incel killing sprees besides Elliot Rogers a decade ago? At most you have tangential relations to the movement by people who already have other issues that played bigger part.

 

[Ishtar]

Ackshually studies have shown incels are generally more at risk of suicide than harming anyone else. Also incels tend to be browner than media portrayals and more generally left leaning.

The entire incel hysteria is an excuse for a massive expansion of police powers, and an expression of Normie cruelty at its most distilled. (Also female subconscious fear-women understand that the current order of things benefits them inordinately, if it is overturned then the vengeance they will suffer is beyond description).

 

[frozen_runner]

How do you go from the world’s largest empire to browbeating elementary age boys about why being heterosexual is bad in a century.

Women voting. That's really all it seems to be.

I would like to be wrong about that, but it don't think I am.

 

[Ishtar]

I think women collectively-like as a class, understand their own interests. They know deep in their bones, that the "best life" they get to live is reliant on a gravy train-they might not be able to understand the mechanics of how it functions, or how it came to be, but they know a world where they have trillions upon trillions of dollars invested in their comfort and pleasure is one that for the party to continue-must be continued indefinitely.

Female hysteria about incels(usually guys too autistic, socially awkward or low on the totem pole to threaten them individually) is an expression of fear-what happens when all those men I don't notice but know at some level exist, decide they want to emulate the Taliban?

Which is why they need the state to terrorize vulnerable young men, and as much as they get the short end from infinite niggers, spics and jeets-mass immigration also serves to shatter solidarity and prevent a male dominated revolutionary movement from overturning the current social order.

The state likewise as their surrogate father is pulling out all stops-to put a pillow over (young) male discontent-they know as well as women do, that a true revolution will see them ripped apart with chainsaws and their blood pouring like flowing rivers, and every woman that has denied a man subjected to a brutality commensurate with the pain of his denied gratification.

^^^The system will go to any lengths, defy any norm, commit the most vile crimes, and tell any lie to prevent young people-young men from overturning it, destroying them and bringing Woman under Man's heel again.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Truly mediocre young men are the most oppressed demographic in human history

 

[Ingmar Aspergman]

I watched it, I was expecting to get more angry but instead I was trying not to fall asleep. It’s boring as fuck, the lack of edits adds nothing and ruins the pacing. The social commentary is pretty limited but what little there is, it’s fucking retarded as to be expected. The show itself is pretty nebulous but it’s obvious that people are using it to push a certain agenda.

 

[Ishtar]

Truly mediocre young men are the most oppressed demographic in human history

Young men are the only true revolutionary force. Women, the elderly, even married men, much less children are all inherently conservative-they have the most to lose from real change. Women in particular have everything to fear from a true overturning of the current political order.

 

[Ingmar Aspergman]

Young men are the only true revolutionary force. Women, the elderly, even married men, much less children are all inherently conservative-they have the most to lose from real change. Women in particular have everything to fear from a true overturning of the current political order.

That’s why leftists are now scrambling to get young men on their side, and are obsessed with Luigi. They realized they turned a potential army against them and are desperate to reverse course.

 

[Ishtar]

Its also why "radical" feminists despite all their hilarious rhetoric about killing all the "moids" are at heart-the most fanatical defenders of the current way of things. Trannies too actually-they live and breathe in this rotten system, and its downfall is their destruction.

They know it, and they will fight night and day to stop a true revolution-a complete inversion of the current state of things from happening.

 

[BrownPawsTypedThis]

I think women collectively-like as a class, understand their own interests. They know deep in their bones, that the "best life" they get to live is reliant on a gravy train-they might not be able to understand the mechanics of how it functions, or how it came to be, but they know a world where they have trillions upon trillions of dollars invested in their comfort and pleasure is one that for the party to continue-must be continued indefinitely.

Female hysteria about incels(usually guys too autistic, socially awkward or low on the totem pole to threaten them individually) is an expression of fear-what happens when all those men I don't notice but know at some level exist, decide they want to emulate the Taliban?

Which is why they need the state to terrorize vulnerable young men, and as much as they get the short end from infinite niggers, spics and jeets-mass immigration also serves to shatter solidarity and prevent a male dominated revolutionary movement from overturning the current social order.

The state likewise as their surrogate father is pulling out all stops-to put a pillow over (young) male discontent-they know as well as women do, that a true revolution will see them ripped apart with chainsaws and their blood pouring like flowing rivers, and every woman that has denied a man subjected to a brutality commensurate with the pain of his denied gratification.

^^^The system will go to any lengths, defy any norm, commit the most vile crimes, and tell any lie to prevent young people-young men from overturning it, destroying them and bringing Woman under Man's heel again.

No you're retarded.

Anyway it is actually very concerning that people are actually discussing it as if it happened , like they discussed it in the Irish government( such niggercattle). It feels so off track from how a government should react to a TV show. It would be as if the gay way everyone acted during covid was because of I am Legend or some shit. Yeah this thing can happen , it didn't though.

 

[merrybrandybuck]

Even here the thread was immediately derailed by Tateposting. As if this is at all about incels rather than a third worlder murdering natives while the Starmer regime covers it up. The UK is so cooked it's not even funny

 

[Snekposter]

The British modus vivendi is to always do the opposite of whatever the French would do

So why the fuck are they sucking third world cock then?