Important as it is, no amount of social media regulation will meaningfully address the manosphere unless we also dismantle the misogyny that underpins it.
Articles on Misogyny
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Parents have an important role to play in educating children about consent and relationships. But it can be hard to know where to begin.
Hannah’s cousin died and she didn’t have to. Wormhole investigates the dark world of alternative wellness online – and the comforts and dangers of such communities.
Lesbians were misrepresented and parodied by men in ancient Roman texts. Yet these depictions can reveal a lot if we read between the lines.
These online networks expose and reinforce a culture in which women’s consent, autonomy and bodily integrity are devalued.
The movie chimed with the dark 1970s zeitgeist, but it also prefigured the 21st-century America of Maga.
The Montréal shooter was a lonely, furious young man who built an ideology to justify killing, and its bedrock was a hatred of women.
The language used in response to gender-based violence erases who’s doing the harm and who’s experiencing it, making it harder to report on and easier to excuse.
Countering violent extremism requires substantial investment from all levels of government, dismantling the state’s racialized assumptions of criminality and recognizing that gendered violence is systemic.
From the middle ages on, threatening the patriarchy by displaying ambition or failing to conform to societal gender norms was taken as evidence of witchcraft.
The soul and body splitting event of childbirth – and the profound experience of becoming a mother – have been sidelined by philosophy for centuries.
This toxic social media trend proves how – even today – women are punished and pathologised for simply being less than perfect.
Wes Streeting wants to dock hospital budgets to fix NHS misogyny. The cure may be worse than the disease.
In a cabinet reshuffle, Paul Edbrooke has been appointed Victoria’s first minister for Men and boys. Academic evidence gives him some clear policy priorities.
‘Manosphere’ influencers claim to be able to increase their followers’ value – for a fee.
Online sexism is no longer primarily a series of isolated or individual opinions but has evolved into a system-level phenomenon that spreads through digital platforms and produces real-world consequences.
Louis Theroux (perhaps unintentionally) shows us that a traditional TV documentarian like him no longer holds the power.
Denying Jewish men’s masculinity, or blaming them for weakening ‘traditional’ masculinity, has long been part of antisemitism.
A new study highlights the experiences of men who left toxic online spaces.
A highly stylised storyline around a handful of high-profile influencers risks painting a misleading portrait of the manosphere.
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Lecturer in Australian Politics, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Cybercrime and Gender, University of Portsmouth
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Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
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Senior lecturer, College of Business Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham
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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy, School for Business and Society, University of York
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Program Director | Instructor | Internship Coordinator, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie University
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Director of the Information Integrity Initiative, a project of TheNerve/Professor of Journalism, Chair of the Centre for Journalism and Democracy, City St George's, University of London