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Adolescence series has revealed a phenomenon hiding in plain sight -- Manosphere and its community of men and boys.  Manosphere is an online space brimming with anti-feminist ideas, incel culture and misogyny. It promotes male supremacy at the cost of labelling women fundamentally different -- somehow inferior and definitely deserving of being penalized.   While the manosphere has become pervasive, entering our phones and minds - with or without consent - the show has brought out an important question:  How do parents of teenagers know what’s going on with their children ? How do they assure that a seemingly normal childhood may not be so normal after all?  Reporter: Ainnie Arif  Camera: Vikram Sharma and Suresh Kumar Pandey  Editor: Sudhanshu  Follow us: Website: https://www.outlookindia.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Outlookindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outlookindia/ X: https://twitter.com/Outlookindia Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaNrF3v0AgWLA6OnJH0R Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OutlookMagazine Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/outlookindia  #Adolescence #AdolescenceSeries #Netflix #Manosphere #Parenting #Parents #Childhood #IncelCulture #AntiFeminist #Misogyny

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00:00It all comes down to Jamie's fit of rage when things start unravelling.

00:04We knew that Jamie murdered his classmate, but why?

00:08Up until now, it was difficult to believe that a 13-year-old boy

00:11who wears t-shirts that are too big for his narrow shoulders could commit such a crime.

00:16But suddenly, he transforms into an unhinged madman,

00:20slamming the table, throwing away his jacket,

00:22spitting words that his actions cannot be dictated by others.

00:26Jamie, in his attempts to salvage his low self-esteem,

00:28got influenced by the manosphere.

00:31Adolescence revealed a phenomena hiding in plain sight,

00:35manosphere and its community of men and boys.

00:38Welcome to Deep Dive with Outlook.

00:42I'm Annie, and today we will discuss the manosphere

00:45and how does influencer and rotate get into the picture.

00:48This show opens with the police violently invading 13-year-old Jamie's house

00:52at 6 in the morning.

00:54Jamie, visibly scared, struggles to find words,

00:57almost making us, as viewers, feel sad for a teenage boy

01:00who's dragged straight out of his bed to a lock-up.

01:04He's a rude kid.

01:06Jamie, why don't you tell us to be careful?

01:09But this sympathy quickly turns into shock

01:12when we see Jamie brutally murder a girl for calling him an insult.

01:16What scarier is that this incident, although fictional,

01:19is not limited to fiction.

01:21Stephen Graham, the co-creator of the show,

01:23said that he watched on news how incidents of young boys

01:26killing young girls are becoming common,

01:28which drove him to make a series to raise public awareness.

01:30What's happened in today's society

01:33where a young boy, and they are young boys,

01:38feel a need or this age or whatever it may be,

01:43you know, I'll never understand it,

01:45to kill a young girl, to stab a young girl to death.

01:50And I knew we were going to be making a series,

01:52so I said to Phil,

01:54this is the idea I'd like us to focus on.

01:57Researching about the show led him to dark places on the internet,

02:00called The Manosphere.

02:02Manosphere is an online space brimming with anti-feminist ideas,

02:05incel culture and misogyny.

02:07It promotes male supremacy at the cost of labelling

02:10women fundamentally different, somehow inferior

02:12and definitely deserving of being penalised.

02:15Young boys and teens take on platforms like Reddit and Instagram

02:18to find answers for why women reject them,

02:21how to lower women's self-esteem,

02:23how to benefit from it and how to be their most masculine self.

02:26But does this show have any real relevance?

02:29Apparently, The Manosphere is not all that hard to find.

02:32On the contrary, it is unavoidable.

02:34Even though some governments, like the Australian government,

02:37has banned social media usage until age 16,

02:39it may just not be enough.

02:41Young boys are becoming increasingly receptive to insult culture,

02:44since this sort of toxic masculinity

02:46gives them convincing answers

02:47as to why women avoid them.

02:49With this shift of blame,

02:51such irrelevant theories become easy to believe.

02:53This term incel is a short form for involuntarily celibate

02:56and is associated with men who are unable to attract women

03:00and harbour ill feelings for other men who can.

03:02What's worse is that celebrities and public figures

03:05personally benefit at the behest of this community of males.

03:09It gives rise to a host of self-designed influencers.

03:12This causation and correlation between Manosphere

03:14and the rise of popularity of influencers like Andrew Tate,

03:17who is an alleged rapist,

03:19and said that women belong indoors,

03:21can't drive,

03:21and are a man's property.

03:23I think my sister is her husband's property, yes.

03:26Such videos spreading violent misogyny materialize in real crime.

03:30Almost a month ago,

03:31a 26-year-old man,

03:32Kyle Clifford,

03:33committed triple murder

03:34of his ex-girlfriend,

03:36her sister,

03:37and mother.

03:38And in the lead-up to the crime,

03:39he watched videos by Andrew Tate.

03:41Now let's take a look at the gender-based violence in India.

03:44It's no secret that gender-based violence is rampant in India too.

03:47In the year 2021,

03:49India recorded the highest number of crime against women ever.

03:52Last month,

03:53a man killed his 17-year-old girlfriend in Uttar Pradesh,

03:56saying she was very proud of her beauty.

03:59In Maharashtra,

04:00a 20-year-old man raped a 10-year-old girl

04:03and threw her from the sixth floor.

04:05At last,

04:06how has the show fared?

04:07For what it's worth,

04:08the show has left an impact,

04:10bringing a virtual and intangible space of Manusphere

04:13to the very tangible conversation table,

04:16leading to decisive policies.

04:18UK has decided to add the show to the school curriculum

04:20as measure to tackle misogyny.

04:23The UK Prime Minister also spoke about

04:25how he felt watching the show

04:26as the father of two teenagers.

04:28As a dad,

04:29I have not found it easy viewing.

04:31We've been watching it with our children.

04:32My girl is 14.

04:35My boy is 16.

04:37And it's been really hard to watch.

04:40While the Manusphere has become pervasive,

04:42entering our phones and minds

04:43with or without consent,

04:45the show has brought out an important question.

04:48How do parents of teenagers

04:49know what's going on with their children?

04:51And how do they assure

04:52that a seemingly normal childhood

04:54may not be so normal after all?

04:56Stay tuned with Outlook for more search explainers.

05:02Outlook for more questions.

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