Netflix, Toxic masculinity and Adolescence.

State sponsored attacks on boys.

Who remembers people beginning to talk about Covid five years ago? It started with people falling over rather dramatically in China, and with an outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. How we chuckled at the idea of being locked in a cruise ship with nothing but fading cabaret, rationed room service and passengers wishing their experience was closer to the reviews of ‘only an average cruise experience’ rather than being observed by the entire world? Little did we know what was coming.

Statistically the ship showed that even amongst people at higher risk from Covid, of the 3,711 passengers and crew cooped up on board, only nine died. With respect to the dead and their families, this was good news for the world. A so-called indiscriminate virus locked in a ship with a low 0.18% fatality rate should have been promoted by recommissioned town-criers from rooftops, church spires and ship funnels. Instead, little did we know that that the quarantine of the Diamond Princess was about to be rolled out via global governmental policy at the demand of populations, complete with room service with grocery deliveries, somewhat mobilised in opinion by the nudges and blanket media coverage of a virus that the vast majority had no need to fear.

Perhaps not on quite the same scale we now have the latest nudge in a new TV series, which we’re told that everyone - ie London - is watching. It’s a Netflix series called Adolescence that brilliantly identifies the main perpetuators of crimes against girls in the UK as being 13-year old white boys. It’s the classic mainstream media trick of distraction or deception. Parents of sons should be getting pretty sick by now of the media and our government blaming all societal ills on their sons, while turning a wilful blind eye to far more serious schisms in society where 1000s of white working class girls are systematically raped, and not by 13-year old boys.

Most young boys are too busy reducing their attention spans in a worryingly arrested development characterised by playing Fortnite and watching YouTube Shorts on the lavatory. This does not make them Incels, which seems to be another middle class pearl-clutching Victorian moral panic.

Adolescence is made by Warp films - beneficiaries of government (ie. our) money and promotes the misleading narrative that Andrew Tate is supposedly behind young British boys killing young British girls. How Andrew Tate can be any more harmful than a system stacked against underperforming working class white boys is why the Guardian and shows like Adolescence exist to counter. It’s classic MSM misdirection for example from statistics showing that it is black youths – such as Hassan Sentamu who repeatedly stabbed 15-year-old Elianne Andam in a row over a teddy bear – who are more than twice as likely to view Tate positively than whites.

How Tate is somehow more of a threat to boys than an ‘education’ system preaching the scientifically dubious and politically advantageous idea that co2 is a pollutant, that someone’s sexual orientation is their most valued aspect, or that people can change their sex is probably not explored. Instead the focus of Adolescence is on the dangerously rife idea of toxic masculinity. There’s seldom any celebration of the importance of masculinity and how it can work beautifully with the feminine. What kind of sick society repeatedly tells boys that something about them, something so immovably innate, is bad?

The main purpose of the series seems to be aimed at increasing the already authoritarian Online Safety Act to censor politically unwelcome views and perspectives that our government disagree with. Any migrants from Eastern Europe must be looking at flights home to comparative freedom. Co-writer Jack Thorne freely admits that he hopes his series leads to the Labour Party stepping in to regulate the public’s internet and social media usage. The Left is never far from gripping the authoritarian baton.

The worst thing about the now engrained concept of ‘toxic masculinity’ is the implication that there’s no such thing as toxic femininity. It’s as though in this area women remain the passive homemakers rather than of tooth and nail and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. In an orchestrated tie-in with the series, the Guardian declares: From the police to the prime minister: how Adolescence is making Britain face up to toxic masculinity. Where is the concept of toxic catholicism or toxic islam? Toxic gayness or toxic indifference? The idea that something inside boys and men is abhorrent is, well, frankly abhorrent itself. Making boys the scapegoat for societal ills is the sort of distraction from the real threats that people are starting to see through.

I guess it gives the government a break from hammering the farmers, taking away winter fuel allowances, taxing small business into oblivion, plastering prime farmland with solar panels, establishing a record high taxes, to help pay £22b on pointless carbon capture machines and £6.6b for illegal immigrants to stay in hotels and have PlayStations, DJ lessons and football stadium tours to keep them entertained, destroying the economy and establishing a two-tier justice system.

Perhaps it’s poor timing with Adolescence that from April 1st there’s another reason to not be a white male in the UK, when new sentencing guidelines are introduced in England and Wales which will see white people and Christians treated less favourably. Guidelines suggest that judges should hand out softer sentences based on a criminal's ethnicity Even Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood accepts the guidelines are two-tier. Racism is prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. It’s these cultures that are being patronised by the racist Labour government who imply that other cultures are less able to control their anti-social instincts than the indigenous white population and therefore require allowances. Writing to Lord Justice William Davis, chairman of the Sentencing Council, Mahmood said she wanted to "make clear my displeasure" at the changes. "As someone who is from an ethnic minority background myself, I do not stand for any differential treatment before the law," she wrote. Yet it’s happening.

There is a list of individuals who should have the benefit of a pre-sentence report in order to reduce their sentencing. it’s a long list but can be summed up by ‘anyone who isn’t a christian or a straight white male.

It might be ironic that the State has now banned parents from smacking their children in England It’ll be interesting to see how this is applied to different cultures now making up the diversity of Britain. Not all cultures believe that whispering limp pleas to children screaming around restaurants with cutlery, or spilling apple juice over the carpets is the way to install a strong sense of moral integrity. There are plenty of religions and belief systems that understand children need clear boundaries in order to develop respect and responsibility, which is sometimes best commutated by a clip ‘round the ear, rather than a drawn out liberal lecture on how its important to express yourself, which means being kind to others and in your 20s to throw soup-based tantrums in art galleries in anger at how oil-based products have improved our quality of life beyond comprehension.

Discipline is reality. It introduces children to the personal consequences of actions. It could even prevent young adults from blaming the Tories for the fact they’re unemployable with a Psychology of Fashion and Gender Politics degree. If applied properly it puts the family at the centre of society rather than politicians. And now the Labour government, high on their huge Commons majority with 20% of the national vote - I bet they don’t learn how that’s possible in schools - want to treat ethnic minorities with the same permissive brush that they are ruining their own children with.

Blanket praise for a programme is always suspicious. Adolescence and its vilification of our boys has to stop. Male, as with female, adolescence is hard enough without a media mobilised against them. Imagine the furore if a programme was made with an ethnic lead - for once DEI seems rather quiet - even if it might be more representative of the truth.

Yes, boys are spending too much time on screens and at the expense of their mental health and social development, but it isn’t making them into killers. What if boys are the victims, and propaganda like Adolescence is kicking a man when he’s already down? Calling an immutable characteristic like masculinity toxic is a reductive idea that exposes a narrow political agenda. We need to remember that toxicity can exist everywhere.