Adolescence: the new Netflix series and psychosocial tropes

In August of 2015, Lauren Kelley released “America Has a Rape Problem and Kate Harding Wants to Fix It” in Rolling Stone. Kelley’s article was about Kate Harding and her new book at the time, where Harding warned that “every American boy is at risk of growing up to become a rapist.” That statement struck me as–perhaps–the coldest and most untruthful s…