British Netflix drama “Adolescence” — which has sparked widespread debate in regards to the poisonous and misogynistic influences to which younger boys are uncovered on-line, can now be proven in French secondary colleges — a minister has stated.
The initiative follows a precedent set within the UK.
The producer of the sequence broadcast on Netflix has “opened up the rights to us” and the French schooling ministry will “offer five educational sequences to young people based on this series”, Education Minister Elisabeth Borne instructed LCI TV late on Sunday.
These excerpts from the mini-series are “very representative of the violence that can exist among young people”, Borne stated.
She added that they might be proven in secondary colleges to youngsters from the age of round 14 onwards.
Such supplies are meant to assist elevate consciousness of the issue of “overexposure to screens and the trivialisation of violence on social networks”, in addition to the unfold of so-called masculinist theories — misogynistic spheres which advocate violence towards girls, stated Borne.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer known as the transfer to display the present — by which a 13-year-old boy stabs a woman to loss of life after being radicalised on the web — “an important initiative” which might assist begin conversations in regards to the content material youngsters devour on-line.
“Adolescence”, which was launched on March 13, follows the aftermath of the schoolgirl’s deadly stabbing, revealing the harmful influences to which boys are subjected on-line and the key which means children are giving to seemingly harmless emojis.
The sequence has resonated with an viewers more and more disturbed by a litany of stunning knife crimes dedicated by younger folks and the misogynistic rhetoric of influencers like Andrew Tate.
As of June 1, “Adolescence” reached a complete of 141.2 million views, making it Netflix’s second most watched English-language sequence ever, in accordance with trade journal Variety.
Source: www.anews.com.tr