The success of Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, creators ofAdolescence–the series of the moment–, has been bursting the bubbles of the generational and gender filter by transferring the cultureincelFrom the screens of teenagers locked in their rooms to a commonplace frequented by adults like Netflix. The series chronicles how the sinister influence of toxic masculinity floods and expands into digital environments. It comes at an opportune time, now that there's no shortage of moral panics about social media. Its virtueAdolescence It's a shock, but the challenge after watching it is to avoid falling into a reactive, prohibitionist, and short-sighted mode. How can we take advantage of the buzz the series has generated to better support our teens?

One of the first executive orders Trump signed on Inauguration Day was titled: “Defending Women from Gender Extremism and Returning Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” An analysis of the title should make us wonder why it is assumed that only women should be defended from such (and perverse) ideology. But what interests me is that a topic linked to feminism is so important that it ends up being part of the concerns of the first day of the government of a US president. Something is moving, and perhaps in a dangerous direction.