Since its release on Netflix last month, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s Adolescence is all anybody has been talking about. The British crime drama television mini-series centres on a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of a girl in his school. The show has reinvigorated conversations about the manosphere, incels and the rise of misogyny among young boys and men. 

In this week’s episode, Halima Jibril and Elliot Hoste are joined by our deputy editor, Serena Smith, to discuss the show’s popularity and the Labour government’s new initiative to show Adolescence in schools to combat misogyny. The trio also discuss the ways in which young women are radicalised online to commit violence against themselves or other women and how that is often ignored. Plus, the problems with the way we discuss toxic and positive masculinity and so much more. 

Listen to episode twelve of Dazed and Discoursed above, or find it on Acast, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.