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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All
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98/100Author:
Laura Bates
Publisher:
Sourcebooks
Date:
March 2, 2021
Bates follows the thread of toxic masculinity into the corners of the internet, exploring incel culture and misogynistic attacks online.
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The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and author of a number of other books about misogyny spent a year immersed in what's called the 'manosphere,' a vast online world in which incels rub elbows with an assortment of other misogynists — from 'pickup artists' with little respect for the concept of consent, to the male separatists who call themselves Men Going Their Own Way (but who can't seem to stop talking about women). The book she has extracted from this experience, Men Who Hate Women , which hit U.S. shelves this month but published earlier in the UK, is an often harrowing read; an uncompromising guide to the misogynistic backlash of the past decade or so.
For this brilliantly fierce and eye-opening book, Bates has descended into the vast underworld sewage system of online misogyny, and brought back a persuasive and alarming thesis. But first she guides the reader through the various hellish circles of what she terms the 'manosphere'.
It’s uncomfortable to know that a violent hatred of women isn’t confined to the tame cliche of spittle-flecked keyboard warriors in greying Y-fronts, and that there are swathes of men in all layers of society who hold views that frankly make Margaret Atwood’s Gilead look progressive. Bates is best known for running the Everyday Sexism Project, a website predating the #MeToo movement that lets women share their dispiritingly commonplace experiences of prejudice and harassment. For her new book, she set out to find the source of an increasingly fanatical wave of misogyny.
Bates’s pithy mixture of thoroughly researched facts, opinion and personal experience updates Susan Faludi’s Backlash for the digital age by exploring the horrifying ways men are organising online to oppose, belittle and arrest fourth-generation MeToo feminism. Men Who Hate Women provides a confronting, deeply shocking insight into this ugly and frightening world of misogyny—‘the manosphere’—and its perfect fit with social media platforms that support extremist politics with such ease.
