"How, the men of the #manosphere invariably ask, did we end up here?
The answer, more often than not, is that #women are not imagined as acting alone. In the #conspiratorial imagination, #femaleautonomy cannot simply emerge from social change, economic independence or shifting norms. It must have been engineered. And once a movement begins searching for hidden engineers – those who corrupt tradition, weaken men, control #media, #finance institutions and dissolve natural hierarchies – it is only a short walk into older and darker territory. The manosphere frequently rediscovers, in updated slang and meme form, the classic architecture of #antisemitism. Women become marionettes, controlled by dark forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. #Jews provide an answer to the question: who designed this system? The manosphere sells wounded men a fantasy of restored power while antisemitism supplies the villain who stole it."
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The Manosphere: the language of misogyny in the grammar of antisemitism
Author and journalist James Bloodworth argues that the Manosphere, the online collection of male supremacists and misogynists that target women, rests upon the older bigotry of antisemitism. THE MIS...Fathom
