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The Netflix series Adolescence, where a White teenager murders a White girl, has resulted in a great deal of commentary, including Tobias Langdon’s TOO article. Until reading it, I had no idea that the media in UK reacted that way and didn’t know that the story was inspired by a real incident with a non-White teenager murdering a White girl. The media doing what it always does: reverse the races when necessary to blame Whites.

The usual reaction is to blame 13-year-old Jamie’s rage on the manosphere, as in this Guardian article:

Jamie’s plight becomes a poignant study of the nightmarish influence of the so-called manosphere – that pernicious online world of “red pills”, “truth groups” and the 80-20 rule (which posits that 80% of women are attracted to 20% of men). It’s a shadowy sphere populated by alphas, “incels”, MRAs (men’s rights activists) and PUAs (pickup artists), whose fragile egos turn into entitled fury. From mocking emojis on Instagram to the dark web and deepfakes, it’s another country to anyone over 40. No wonder parents are, as Bascombe’s son points out, “blundering around, not getting it”.

A NYTimes article also emphasized the internet.

Initially the pair struggled to work out a motivation for the show’s main character, Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), until an assistant suggested the pair research the culture of incels, men who see themselves as involuntarily celibate and rail against women online.

Thorne said he bought a burner phone and set up new social media accounts on it, then spent six months “diving into very dark holes” of incel content online. It made him realize, he said, that the grim arithmetic of the incel worldview — the belief that 80 percent of women are attracted to just 20 percent of men, so boys must manipulate girls if they want to find sexual partners — could also seem “incredibly attractive” to many young men.

The 80-20 split is real as anyone who has ever dated realizes (the universal principle of female hypergamy), and this means that many men are frustrated. This is particularly true in polygynous cultures where high-status men are able to have multiple wives. A great strength of Western cultures is that monogamy dampens male competition for females, but there are certainly vestiges of it in the dating arena where wealthy, high-status men have no difficulty dating attractive, desirable women. As usual, the left denies reality in favor of imagining a world where all are equal — where individual differences like intelligence, physical attractiveness, social status, etc. are irrelevant.

But what the Times doesn’t say in that article is that the girl called Jamie an incel on social media and said he would always be an incel. It was extremely cruel for the girl to call him an incel in a forum where all his schoolmates would see it. No teenager wants to hear that at an age when social status is everything, especially from a girl. So it was understandable that he was angry. The girl was the bully, Jamie the victim.

Imagine if Jamie had been cast as Black. If a Black teenager was bullied by a White girl, the media would either ignore the whole thing (likely—so it would never be cast that way) or assume that the killing was justified.

Another Times article, “Tate-pilled boys are a problem for school s,” notes:

You know by the end of the first episode that Jamie is guilty; the police have video of Jamie stabbing Katie. So the central question becomes why did he do it, and the explanation rolls out over the next three episodes. His family is loving, if imperfect, like most families. Jamie’s father, a plumber, is disappointed in him for not being an athlete and doesn’t quite know how to relate to his sensitive, artistic son. Jamie is bullied in school and filled with self-loathing, and he turns to Andrew Tate and other purveyors of sexist online content to make himself feel big.

In fact, there is only one mention in the series where Tate is named, although the writers did say that they wanted to “look in the eye of modern male rage” and examine the influence of public figures such as Andrew Tate on boys. Even though it’s a common theme in the commentary on the show, writers are never explicit about the evidence that he is attracted to the manosphere, although Tate is “namechecked once, the show is not about him. None of the kids ever mention him, which I thought was interesting.”

Yes, interesting. The media goes way out of their way to blame the manosphere but there’s really no evidence in what the viewer sees that the manosphere or “Tate-pilled boys” has anything to do with it. Teenage boys don’t need Tate or the manosphere to be infuriated at being called an incel. Both father and son have a problem with their temper, so the explanation could just as easily be genetic. One has the feeling that the show’s writers jumped on the manosphere theme after the (man-hating) reviews from the left started coming out, or else they would have made it much more explicit.

13-year-old Jamie is actually very good looking but not a big masculine guy, so he’s not going to be a big-time athlete, and it’s true that the father, like many fathers, would have loved to have a big, strapping athlete for a son. But I should have thought Jamie would be attractive to at least some girls. I thought it ridiculous that Jamie had the self-concept of being ugly. Is that what the left has done to White people?

I expected the usual politically correct portrayals of Blacks—virtuous and intelligent—but it’s so common that I hardly get upset about it. It struck me that all the White women were unattractive and out of shape, but the Blacks were physically robust and in great physical shape (the policeman must work out—his arms were very jacked, as we say). And his son was much taller than Jamie and was doubtless chosen because viewers would see him as physically attractive. And of course, the Blacks are presented as intelligent, well-spoken, kind, and not prone to temperamental outbursts like Jamie and his father.

Detective father and son

Notice too the women in the background.

Surprisingly, I thought Jamie’s family were portrayed positively, especially the father—he had a loving marriage and never hit Jamie or his wife, although he did have a temper problem (as did Jamie). It was clear that the father was the head of household (patriarchy!!), so I suppose liberals see that as pathological, although I didn’t see it mentioned. Jamie clearly identifies much more with his father, so, e.g., he chooses his father to be the one person from the family who can sit in on the police interviews. The mother seems surprised and a bit upset about that.

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But who can’t sympathize with the parents? Imagine your son murdering a girl and then having to deal with the fallout from the community. The wife wants to move but the husband realizes that the story will get out eventually wherever they are. Their older daughter is devastated.

One can totally understand the father’s rage at the teenagers on bikes who painted his truck with the word ‘nonce‘ (spelled incorrectly), meaning a sexual pervert attracted to children — and an extremely negative thing to call someone in British slang. The teenagers laughed at the family, and the father beat up one of the culprits.

It ends with both parents saying they should have done more. The last scene shows the father (but not the mother) weeping uncontrollably.

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  1. Notsofast says:

    news flash: 80% of the men are attracted to 20% of the women. anyone that watches nitflix is a nitwit and this just in: 100% of the women are attracted to money.

    • Agree: BrooLidd
    • LOL: Brooklyn Dave
    • Replies: @Trinity
  2. news flash: 80% of the men are attracted to 20% of the women

    Meh. I suspect it’s more like half the men are attracted to half the women.

    Guys may drool over 10s, but most know their place and league.

    Most don’t know that all-too-many hotties are unbearable after a few hokey-pokes. I mean, ask Harry about PNC: post-nut clarity. Can you imagine what it’s like for him to live with narcissistic MeAgain Markle? Sure, take her out of the cage for occasional shtuppings: butt-packings, face-sploogings, “pearl necklaces,” hot Carls, and what-not. But then?

    Stick her back in the basement pronto!

    I mean, imagine trying to talk to, or reason with, that slag?

    An observation:

    Emily “Ratface” Ratajkowski was, IMHO, mos’ def’ hot in the BLURRED LINES video, 2013:

    https://ytboob.com/4k-remastered-blurred-lines-unrated-version-by-robin-thicke-001/

    Now? She’s 12 years older: more boney and baloney-lipped. A hotdog-holder, peen sheath, and/or target for a brisk meat-bayoneting. Always on the prowl for paparazzi to display T&A. It’s all she’s got.

    Then: https://tinyurl.com/as9m6dvz

    Now: https://tinyurl.com/y7fedr39

    Not that she’s “fugly” now. Just that the bloom is obviously off the rose. Something females, especially Pokimane-clones, forget.

    They can’t imagine beauty fading. It simply doesn’t compute. They can’t register the truth that the same female attributes that cause men to turn their heads (toward young women) will later turn men’s stomachs (as bints age).

    Ever it’s been thus.

    Blame Ma Nature.

    Fierce and feisty females bloviate about equality, yet still expect men to make all first-moves. Even when the fembots are 3s. They insist they’re equal, but demand that only men take early emotional risks. And make/pay for all dates.

    Of course, they might say they’re willing to go halvesies (but never full!) on bills…b-b-but only if they still like the guy after 3-5 dates. And if the guy insists on her paying? She will refuse, walk off, or reluctantly pay. In all three cases, though, there will be no second date.

    The equal male stance? Offer to take females on dates, but only after they give sufficient BJs of proper duration and quality.

    BJs before entrees!

    So only go on cheap walks/coffee dates until she shows proper interest and proven value.

    Fact: A male and female break up and begin to date others 10 times (easy for her, harder for him). At the end, he’ll be out for 20 people while she gets to keep all her money.

    Equality?

    Guys should also consider the Toilet Tactic. If the date isn’t going well…or she’s over-ordering…or seems unlikely to pay half…go to the loo. On the way to or from same, grab a server and pay your half. Then go back to your date. If she doesn’t offer to pay half, gets up to leave, or reluctantly pays: bolt! Be ready to show your receipt to staff, but keep going. Let the venue deal with the slut.

    Fact: There’s no reason to let vag use you as a wallet. She needs to pay for your time, too. After all, she’s a thoroughly modern woman, right? (<:)

    Fact: Unless and until guys start fighting back, they will continue to be used and abused. And forever lose.

    For example, when bints bitch about “the male gaze,” say it’s a response to “whore displays.”

    When OnlyWhores say they don’t “force” guys to sub to their accounts…and so feel no guilt abusing male feelings…say men don’t force women to take anti-depressants, either. Or “cut” themselves. Or have eating disorders. So men have no reason to give a shit about “female troubles,” either.

    Men’s stance should be: “Don’t care about us? Then we don’t care about you. So go roger yourselves!”

    • Replies: @ProsecuteGenocide
  3. “Having a television in your home is like having a Jew in your living room.”

    Leonard E. Feeney

    Can’t imagine wasting 5 minutes consuming much on the TV, let alone this Netflix propaganda. But what isn’t jew propaganda these days? Last movie I watched was “The Eight Hundred” which was a refreshingly patriotic film, filled with action, heroism, racial awareness & solidarity.

    And I watched that while on the dreadmillm so it wasn’t wasted time.

  4. LeBigBoss says:

    Most 13 year old boys are incels by nature. “Adolescence” is pure propaganda.

    • Agree: follyofwar
  5. 90% of everything on Jewflix is pure, anti-white propaganda

    It was founded by Marc Randolph, who inherited his fortune from his uncle, Edward Bernays – the Jew put in charge of anti-Nazi propaganda in post WW2 Germany.

    Bernays received his fortune from HIS uncle Sigmund fucking Freud.

    With such wonderful investors such as Waleed Bin Talal and George Soros how could anyone expect it to be anything but blatant subversion

  6. martin_2 says:

    …inspired by a real incident with a non-White teenager murdering a White girl.

    I don’t think this is true. It was black on black.

  7. Sean says:

    Sorry, the real life killer was indeed a tall scary looking black 17 year old rather than a slight 14 year old angelic appearing white boy, but the real life 15 year old female victim was not a white girl.


    Video Link

  8. Sean says:

    But what the Times doesn’t say in that article is that the girl called Jamie an incel on social media and said he would always be an incel. It was extremely cruel for the girl to call him an incel in a forum where all his schoolmates would see it. No teenager wants to hear that at an age when social status is everything, especially from a girl. So it was understandable that he was angry. The girl was the bully, Jamie the victim.

    Jamie is supposed to live in a Northern English town, not Croydon (and even in Croydon I doubt having sex at 13 years old is that routine, especially not so common for boys that incel would be a meaningful insult for one of Jamie’s age). The big scene with the white female psychologist included her asking him if he has any “WOMEN” friends at all, as if he is an adult. Then there are lots of questions about sex. He (and his friend) are treated in a way that the police would have trouble getting away with even if he was an adult. Formerly the UK’s top prosecutor and now Prime Minister, Starmer wants Adolescence shown across the country in schools.

    I thought it ridiculous that Jamie had the self-concept of being ugly.

    He looks childlike and sexually immature. I think the sub textual theme of the drama is indeed sexual competition. Yes the character is ostensibly 13 but at that age sexually active girls are with youths years older. It pretty clear that this is a small youth we are looking at and the actor was actually 15 when it was made. His friend gets beaten up by a black girl. To me a black girl knocking down a white boy of the same age is saying something about whites males being of inferior masculinity. There is also a weird strip search in which two white male white cops ask Jamie to lift up his penis so no white males even policemen are portrayed positively (Jamie’s white lawyer is so bad at his job he would be struck of the rolls in real life) but the black/ Asian actors are, and the black male actors chosen are like romantic leads.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  9. Dear white people,

    The lack of diversity in the lead role of this TV “movie” is appalling. Diversity is our greatest strength, and failure to cast a Black lead over a white lead is nothing less than literally an inherent act of violence.

    I understand when it’s a newspaper article asking our fellow Europeans to have fewer children to reduce our carbon footprint, or even a strong independent white actress next to her Black husband, but when it comes down to it we really need to recognize our privilege, decenter our whiteness, and amplify Black voices.

    Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

  10. Wokechoke says:
    @Sean

    The actor portraying the father, he’s partly a nigger.

    The entire script written by him is done to abuse and defame white lads.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham#

    He’s partly Jamaican. He tried to commit suicide himself.

  11. @Don Trumpleone

    When I first heard of the PUA meetings, my gut instinct was revulsion.

    Then I began an online deep dive, and realized it was not at all what the haters said it was.

    The manosphere told the critical truth about politics, finance, biology, history, Jewish power, society, family, feminist ideology and the sexes, and how they all interact.

    The manosphere was the antidote to a half century of deceit and indoctrination. It was an invitation to classic dissent and critical thinking. A breath of fresh air.

    Anyone wanting to shut it down has an agenda, which is to make us stupid.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @R.G. Camara
  12. Wokechoke says:
    @ProsecuteGenocide

    Chateau Heartiste was probably the best of the bunch. He was a white racist and a chauvinist. But most of the PUA movement was just a pack of Nigs Jews and Hindus swapping notes about raping white chicks. The Adolescence show inverts most of the reality.

  13. Trinity says:

    Ask John Grisham about reversing the races. At one time weren’t they thinking about a race switcheroo on a possible movie about the Wichita Massacre. Never heard of this Netflix series, don’t hardly watch television at all. Thank God Almighty I don’t watch (((manufactured))) shit like this crap.

    (((Based On A True Story.))) LMAO

    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
  14. Trinity says:
    @Notsofast

    80% of men, possibly higher will boink anything above a 3 when they are between the ages of 15-44.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  15. Wokechoke says:
    @Trinity

    Then there is the 3D v 2D woman question.


    Video Link

    • LOL: Trinity
  16. @ProsecuteGenocide

    RooshV had a great website/good books on PUA and delved into other topics like JPower and patriarchy and the like. But thankfully, he swerved to Christianity and has since left the online world behind.

  17. @Trinity

    In recent years the Left has touted the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 as some kind of Kristallnacht-level attack by evil whites on blacks. The event even got to appear in the failed Watchmen TV series on HBO (a TV series designed to “correct” the IP because the previous Watchmen movie had become popular among white right wing fanbois, so the TV series as hard communist-lefty and hard anti-white). Blacks even have started to claim that Tulsa was some kind of “Black Wall Street” that whites sought to destroy to keep them poor.

    What really occurred was typical: a large concentration of blacks in Tulsa had been, as they always do, acting criminal and victimizing whites, even lynching a white guy the year before. Finally, a shoeshine boy sexually assaulted a white teenage girl and the dam broke. Whites rioted en masse, and black gangs used it much the same way they used the George Floyd marches: to start rioting, raping, and looting.

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