We need to value and celebrate our boys. Let’s not behave like they’re all latent misogynists

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'Unless they make a TV drama about an issue, it doesn’t exist. That is where we are now. It took Mr Bates vs The Post Office for people to gasp: “But this was horrendous!”, for the prime minister to announce new legislation to exonerate wrongly convicted subpostmasters and former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells to have her CBE withdrawn. It took Baby Reindeer for us all to realise that, yes, women stalk men too! And maybe it’s time we started taking it seriously?

Then there’s the hit new Netflix show Adolescence, which shines a light on the corrosive impact of social media and misogynistic influencers on teenage boys – and has taken this phenomenon to an almost comedic level. Like coma patients, who have awoken from a 25-year slumber, we’re all suddenly up in arms about this thing called “The Internet”. “These boys who spend their days and nights immersed in a toxic online culture,” came the mass musings. “What if it’s not good for them?”'