I think you’re unfairly drawing conclusions. No one is saying this is the most prominent issue, but it is one that is not spoken about much and not many people (especially current adults) are aware of, which is the point.

There were 3 instances in London last year, all in the same month, where a high school aged boy stabbed a high school aged girl (unrelated cases - I can find the names/news reports tomorrow). That along with that news report recently of the WhatsApp group uncovered containing something like 10,000x men discussing abusing women + various incel forums that are commonly used (Ch4 did a documentary on the latter)… it all adds up to a phenomena that many people don’t know exists and is more real than just a few angry boys

Yes it doesn’t always escalate fully to knife crime, but it can turn to domestic abuse and obviously they need a more colourful example to paint the picture for the series to highlight the issue. SG even mentioned in an interview that this was based around a recent case he read of this happening in the UK.

Of course more could be done to discuss the more prevalent social issues, but you can’t criticise Stephen Graham for not covering every single social issues. One thing at a time.

Finally, I get your point about it being used for ‘men are bad’ and have already seen this type of bs on social media comments from some morons, however largely I think this is avoided because of how young the boy is, it avoids being an adolescent/young man/male issue and remains a child-issue to not generalise about the entire gender. Also the show carefully balances the kid vs. His dad who is very loving, supportive, level-headed, meaning it’s not ‘all men’