The adolescence of television drama has shocked and captivated the public worldwide, providing what activists say it is a rare opportunity to address the world to a large extent hidden from misogyny and online violence.
Since its launch in Netflix on March 13, more than 96 million people have seen the British four -episodes series that begins with the armed police assaulting the house of a 13 -year -old terrified boy accused of murdering a girl, and ends with a raw illustration of the pain of his broken family.
The action in the middle, with each episode of one hour filmed in a vertiginous touch, slowly destroys the initial disbelief that such a young child could commit such a violent crime.
It represents a freely known toxic culture as the light in which the common insecurities of male adolescents about attractiveness and romantic failure can be deforming in resentment and hatred towards opposite sex.
“There are people who will see and Iran ‘but that child could not do that.’ The point is that the child can do it,” said Susie McDonald, CEO of Charity Tender who educates children and adults about healthy relationships
“Suddenly, the possibility becomes normal, so we begin to say, what the hell can we do to prevent that from happening?”
The program is number one in the Netflix global top 10 and directs the lists of almost all countries, from Brazil to Bahrein, for which the transmission platform provides data.
“Although on the surface it seems that it is a very British production … Actually, the issues you are dealing with: what our children are doing online, what they are listening to … I think it is as important in the United States, as is India, as is Australia,” he told Reuters, film critic Kaleem Actab.
The Portuguese police produced a guide for parents to explain the hidden meaning of the emojis used by young people, a component of the plot in the program. The Sydney Morning Herald produced a guide on how to talk to children more effectively than parents in the program.
The British police urged parents to find signs that their child can be radicalized online, using data that shows 60 percent of the references to their terrorism prevention system came from children 17 years or less to highlight the scale of the broader problem.
Adolescence came to the house of British prime minister Keir Starmer, who saw him with his teenage son and daughter.
“He came home hard,” Starmer said in a statement, supporting a scheme to make the show available to schools throughout the United Kingdom and encourage a national conversation about the isues he raises.
“This is not a challenge for which politicians can simply legislate. Believe me, if I could throw a lever to solve it, I would.”
Matt Pinkett, an author of Masculinity and a teacher, described how the program had left it effervescent with lessons ideas, but said that it should be used carefully to avoid more marginalizing children who are already at risk of radicalization.
The program has created a moment that activists, police and educators have been waiting: a general audience prepared to accept the awkward truth that they do not know what their children are doing online and that everyone needs help.
“This is the beginning of something. What we must do as a profession of education is to make sure to take advantage of that,” said Pepe Di’iasio, general secretary of the Association of Leaders of Schools and Colleges of Great Britain.
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