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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...a-adolescence-teach-toxic-masculinity-schools
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France has followed the UK and the Netherlands in allowing the Netflix drama Adolescence to be used in secondary schools as part of efforts to teach teenagers about toxic masculinity and online harms.
The French education ministry will offer schools five classes based on excerpts from the critically acclaimed mini-series, which has provoked a global debate about the impact on young boys of misogynistic content online and on social media.
The Dutch-speaking province of Flanders in northern Belgium has also begun using Adolescence in secondary schools. “The series shows how digital influences and loneliness can lead some young people astray when they lack sufficient support,” the Flemish minister for media, Cieltje Van Achter, told the regional parliament.
In the Netherlands, the series is being used in secondary schools after a proposal from the GreenLeft-Labour MP Barbara Kathmann, with materials on social media influencers and peer pressure developed in conjunction with Netflix by a media studies institute.
Kathmann said: “By showing the series in classes, we can create a safe setting in which to discuss it and the issues it raises, so making teenagers more resilient and preventing them from being sucked into the ‘manosphere’ and its pernicious consequences.”
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