“Boys feel increasingly isolated”: teenager in Netflix ‘youth | youth

Each from the prime minister seems to have a look at the adolescence, the Netflix makes a youth murder that is fueled by social media and toxic masculinity.

But a voice is missing in the debate: teenagers themselves. We collected a group of sixth from Xaverian College in Manchester to maintain their views on the show and find out what it really is like to be a teenager in the UK today.

An intimate picture of a girl has brought in circulation at school in youth – a scenario that is known to all Xaverian students.

“I would say there is a all -of -all culture in which many young men have a girlfriend or with a young girl or whatever, and they get an intimate picture of a young girl. It is almost as if they were encouraged by their friends to show each other and send it to send it around,” said Archie, 18.

In youth, 13-year-old Jamie, the main character, has some alarming views of girls who apparently picked up online and from pornography.

The 18 -year -old René said he was exposed to pornography for the first time when he was 10 or 11 years old. “Too young! I think I was somewhere in a group chat and I saw it, and it was like the strangest thing for me, because I had never seen anything similar and I didn’t want to see at that time.”

Pornography gave boys a distorted idea of ​​what sex should look, said Archie: “They create this unrealistic expectation for young men before they have sex, and if they have sex, if they don’t, if it is not the way porn, they show it – and it does not work when they have sex for the first time. Add to this cycle, and maybe accuse the woman for it.”

A psychiatrist in adolescence tries to achieve what Jamie believes that it does a good man. The Xaverian sixth filmmakers didn’t have many good things to say about the idea of ​​masculinity.

“When you talk about masculinity, immediately think what you think: toxic masculinity. You think of this kind of arrogant male properties and not the positive sides,” said Niall, 18.

The group was initially amazed when they were asked what they like about the boy. “Not much,” said René. “I think there are many negative stereotypes to be a boy at the moment. I think they have always been there, but at the moment they know that many more women talk about either being sexually attacked or to be this way. Many men, even if they know that they have never done anything about the species.

The six-temperaters thought that the adolescence rang, especially how teenagers got bad ideas from online influencers like Andrew Tate. “It’s a problem for a long time,” said Archie. “This is especially the first time for many parents that they really realize that this is also a real opportunity for their child. Toxic male influencers were not really considered a problem for many parents or the elderly because they do not receive those who receive many of the content published online.”

“Two or three years ago, Andrew Tate, he was everywhere,” said Harrison, 18.

Younger, in need of protection in need of protection, liked Tate because he “gave them a voice they don’t have”, Niall said. “I think many boys feel increasingly isolated and alienated. And he tells them that they have a place that it is not their fault. He gives them a scapegoat.”

Tate appealed to lonely boys who had no experience with girls or relationships, said Nevin, 18.

Niall feared that the discourse for poisonous masculinity was pushing more boys towards the act and his ILK: “One thing that I am about the negative connotations of masculinity of masculinity about people who are a little younger.