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  • manosphere, n.

    The Guardian, 15 November 2016:

    For several years now, I’ve had a dark and fairly unusual hobby. When I’m alone and bored and the mood strikes me, I’ll open up my laptop and head for a particularly unsavoury corner of the internet.

    No, not the bit you’re thinking of. Somewhere far worse. That loose network of blogs, forums, subreddits and alternative media publications colloquially known as the “manosphere”. An online subculture centred around hatred, anger and resentment of feminism specifically, and women more broadly. It’s grimly fascinating and now troubling relevant.

    November 16, 2016

  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/suspect-in-deadly-toronto-van-rampage-to-face-court-hearing-as-motive-for-attack-remains-unclear/2018/04/24/ef9aa956-474e-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html

    Rodger, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after the 2014 attack, left behind an extensive digital history, including a YouTube video in which he vowed a “day of retribution” against the women who had sexually rejected him. Rodger’s online history indicated he may have identified himself as an “incel,” or an involuntary celibate, and of the anti-feminist “manosphere.”

    April 24, 2018