Adolescence writer wants ‘radical action not role models’ | Global News Avenue

Netflix’s hard drama puberty is one of the most watched TV shows in recent years and has been a hot topic for discussion this week, House of Commons arrive Our talk show Go to the gate of the screenwriter’s son’s school.

The discussions were triggered by a fictional story of a 13-year-old boy accused of stabbing a girl, and these factors could turn him into a killer.

“In the years, people I’ve never heard of have had a lot of responses to tell me about the conversations they have with the kids right now,” said author Jack Thorne. “It’s really nice.

Thorne added: “My son’s principal asked me to say at the school gate: ‘I want to talk to you about this, I want to think about what our school can do and what other schools can do”.

“The conversation seems to start in all sorts of different places.”

Thorne now calls on the government to take “stimulating action” to help solve the problems raised by the plan.

Among them is mainly the influence of social media and the incel (involuntary celibacy) ideas, which encourages men to blame women for lack of relationships and opportunities.

But the drama produced by Thorne with actor Stephen Graham is more than just pointing his finger toward the Incel culture, the author told the BBC.

“I really hope it’s a drama that shows that Jamie is because of a lot of complex factors.”

His parents, school and friends all play roles in various ways.

But Owen Cooper’s Jamie is bullied on social media, making him feel ugly and exposed to information transmission and perceptions of sexual violence.

“He was this vulnerable child, and then he heard these things, which made sense to him, why he was isolated, why he was alone, why he didn’t belong to him, he ingested it. He had no filters to understand the right thing.”

“In this age, he has put all these different pressures on the particularity of him and the society around him, and he has begun to believe that the only way to reset this balance is through violence.”

Writers have dropped similar online wormholes on sites like 4chan and Reddit to see the world through Jamie’s eyes.

He found that the information came from more than just the obvious.

“It’s a far cry from Andrew Tate. That’s not those big guns,” he said.

“It’s smaller blogs and video blogs, and pieces like people who talk about video games, but through that video game explains why women hate you.

“That’s the most disturbing thing I found.”

These questions are not new, but as others are also discussing dangerous information for boys and young people.

Former England football manager on Wednesday Sir Gareth Southgate delivered a speech Warn of “cold, manipulated and toxic influencers.”

“They are as far away as the role models you young people need throughout their lives,” he said.

Sir Gareth is “amazing” – but he thinks the solution is more than just having a better role model.

“We’ve been having conversations since I was a kid,” the author said. “It has to be something we do more radical than that. It has nothing to do with role models.

“Obviously, role models can have a huge impact on people. But to be honest, we have to change the culture they consume and the means by which our technology can promote it.

“It’s a very interesting speech, but I hope he can come up with more radical things than he does.”

So, what is the more radical solution?

This week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told Parliament that he had been watching “very good” dramas with his teenagers.

He told Commons that the violence committed by young people affected by what they see online is “annoying, we have to solve” and is “cultural issues.”

Thorne hopes the Prime Minister will get the message: “There is a crisis in our school and we need to think about how to stop boys from hurting girls, between each other.”

“It will require a lot of different things to promote schools and at home, and it will require government help,” he said.

He urged Sir Kyle to consider a ban on smartphones in schools and a “digital consent era” similar to Australia, which passed laws that prohibit children under the age of 16 from using social media.

The author also recommends extending it to all smartphone usage and gaming.

“I think we should do what Australia is doing and separate our children from this harmful mental illness that infected them,” he said.

However, the ban will make a tough sell to teenagers.

Thorne appeared on BBC Two News Night this week with three men, 18, 19 and 21.

When asked about the social media ban under the age of 16, they felt bad.

One said it was a “good idea in reason”, another said it would be “very unfair”, while the third objected to the idea, believing that “social media also brings a lot of benefits to the younger generation.”

For Thorne, questions about how police smartphones and social media are coming.

His son, eight years old, said Thorne, wanted to make sure he established “a way to communicate with him” as he grew up. Soon, he will want his phone number.

While making the series, he was thinking about how to deal with his son’s future use of technology. “And I’m still dealing with how to do it.”

He said that research and writing adolescence opened his eyes to the challenges facing young people and parents. But how to solve them? That’s the hardest part.