Adolescence 3 | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-04-14 23:59:41 +0000 UTC
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My grandson will be turning 13 soon. I passed this series on Netflix, but thought I would give it a watch since you watched it. I don't envy the job my kids have raising kids today. When I was young, men talked horribly to women and it was acceptable. No one talked about their feelings. Girls were not so much taught to stand up for themselves. Much of that has gotten better now. But the internet has made other things so much worse. It's harder to bully someone to their face than from behind the safety of a screen. So far, my grandson does not have a phone which other kids find strange. I'm glad they are so watchful of any access he has to the internet but I worry about him being bullied because of it. Kids are not learning to deal with each other in healthy ways because they are behind the damn screens! The more things change, the more they stay the same on many levels.
Pam Copling
2025-10-17 17:55:25 +0000 UTCHer: "Your mum thinks she's bad at everything?" Him: "She can cook a roast, but..." My heart BREAKS for a generation of mothers who grew up under overt misogyny and had 30yo+ or postpartum bodies through the heroin chic 2000s. Imo their conditioning to automatically turn to self-criticism and judgement is mostly unbreakable since it's been such an essential long-term survival response. These women do not deserve to live quietly and in guilt! Lil prick Jamie even tries to diminish cooking a roast - I challenge anyone who hasn't tried it to coordinate the oven space and timings for all the trimmings 😂 a banging roast is something to boast about Yes we are facing a rise in misogyny but I think we forget how recent developments in women's rights are: in UK the Equal Pay Act was 1970, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (women have equal rights in seeking a divorce), and rape in marriage only became a legal crime in the 1990's. This is all so recent. I asked my granny once why she never wears trousers and she said "I remember in my early 20s when all my friends started wearing them and I never took to it". My granny is older than women's right to wear trousers!!!! 😤 Request for you to watch Lessons in Chemistry (set in the 60s), I read the book and would love to watch it with you.
Katie
2025-07-24 03:25:10 +0000 UTCThanks for Mentioning all that and I'm glad you started and continue your growth ❤️💐
Franklin
2025-07-23 16:04:09 +0000 UTCAt some point you said something about people - then you corrected to men/boys - not being taught how to properly process emotions. I agree, but I do think that for a long while, at least in my culture (I’m German), it was all people. Neither of my boomer parents taught me, at least not successfully, how to process emotions. I was a tempestuous child, I felt and still feel huge emotions, and I had a lot of stuff to feel emotional about as a kid. All that my parents, teachers and the kids around me ever taught me was how to suppress, suppress, push it down, compartmentalise it, come at the emotion with logic. It wasn’t until I joined an adhd coaching group at age 44 that I learned I didn’t have the first clue what processing emotions even entails. I’m still terrible at it. So - not just men, everybody gets fucked up by the stupid post WWII stiff upper lip, everything is fine, no emotional outbursts necessary, boomer credo. ——— That said, kudos, Franklin, to all the people who taught you positive self-talk, and to you for being so good at it! When you kept comforting Bryony over and over again, just saying what a positive inner voice would be telling her at that point, that almost broke me. Excellent skills on display, there.
tine
2025-07-21 19:05:02 +0000 UTCI really appreciated all of your commentary. i think most people, like you said, "get it", but I've seen comments on a few different platforms from people who clearly buy into the incel mindset, and it's so frustrating. That includes people echoing that Briony was needlessly shaken up by Jamie's outburst. I worked front-line in the homelessness sector with adults for 7 years and I've seen a lot. I would argue that I would be more nervous working with youth because they can be so unpredictable and are less inhibited regarding consequences. I know several people who have worked in children and youth services who have witnessed far more violence and destruction from preteens than I ever witnessed working with grown men. She KNOWS he is capable of killing someone in cold blood and knows that he has issues with girls/women. And even if the staff member was just outside the door and she could fight him off, fear is fear. I really appreciate your emotional intelligence and insight about these topics!
Megan
2025-04-17 16:38:46 +0000 UTCthis show comes up a lot at my job right now. i'm a family support worker at a charity for autistic children and their families. it's so exhausting to talk to them about this stuff that I am not trained to talk about.
Bex
2025-04-16 17:57:37 +0000 UTC
