I’m a leftie feminist that doesn’t always agree with you, especially when it comes to issues of race and US politics, but I‘ve enjoyed many of your podcasts and when they‘re good, they‘re often brilliant, like this one. Your challenge to the dominant emerging narrative about this drama was an incredibly important, cathartic and clarifying listen. You nailed exactly what I‘ve been trying to articulate since I saw it the other day, and actually had me gripped much more than the drama itself.
Yes, it was compelling and powerfully performed, as usual, by Stephen Graham (even if he seems to play the same narrow type in every show!), but overrated and far too sympathetic to boys and men - the perpetrators of violence of against women. It erased female victims (worse, even victim-blamed) and ultimately suggested ways that would only really make males respect other males more - not girls and women.
On the other hand, you were bang on with your solutions, and as a parent and teacher I recognised a lot of that pandering to boys to the detriment of girls by fellow parents and teachers, especially by some mothers.
Thank you - I really needed that - an episode that deserves way more listeners!
