The popular crime drama ‘Adolescence’ has been a wake-up call about how the online world of misogyny and self-loathing has sucked young teens in
'Sanskar’, as he is known online, is clear about one thing — he is not the kind of guy girls go for. “Girls want an extrovert dominant guy, which we are not,” says the engineering student.
The ‘we’ he is referring to are incels, a portmanteau of involuntary celibates. The term refers to men who are frustrated about not having found a romantic or sexual partner, and many blame ‘choosy’ women for this. Incels have been around for a while, but a gripping new show ‘Adolescence’ highlights how teens, who may not be very sociable or popular, are being sucked into this radicalised and misogynist world.
The ‘we’ he is referring to are incels, a portmanteau of involuntary celibates. The term refers to men who are frustrated about not having found a romantic or sexual partner, and many blame ‘choosy’ women for this. Incels have been around for a while, but a gripping new show ‘Adolescence’ highlights how teens, who may not be very sociable or popular, are being sucked into this radicalised and misogynist world.