I thought Alek Minassian had a learning or developmental disability, but he seemed harmless

Alek Minassian killed 11 people in Toronto after posting a message on Facebook declaring, “ The Incel Rebellion has already begun” Involuntary celibates, or incels, congregated on digital forums like Reddit and 4chan where they rued their status at the base of the modern pyramid of sexual relations.

Minassian ’s violence illuminated a bizarre digital community most parents, principals, and politicians had never heard of.

A landmark report about the state of young men, “ Lost Boys ,” was released just days before Adolescence and has received much less attention than the Netflix drama.

The absence of fathers is associated with a constellation of negative outcomes for boys: worse mental health, poor grades, increased likelihood of ending up in prison.

In psychology, men are sometimes framed as defective women.

There are just three men’s colleges in the United States compared to over two dozen for women.

Adolescence risks intensifying fears of toxic masculinity, while bringing us no closer to actually helping young boys.

The likelihood, in either case, that a boy from a stable middle-class home with loving parents will become a killer is vanishingly small.