Status Updates From Men Who Hate Women: The Ext...

“Men Who Exploit Other Men” oof, I don’t know why but this one hit me more than the other chapters. I guess I was just hit with how deep the extreme misogyny really is. Why Trump and the like keep winning. How accepted and tolerated the behavior is. Absolutely sick to my stomach. 😔

The relationship between alt-right figureheads and the media is beneficial because their extreme ideologies is normalized, the media gets to use them as clickbait to attract attention and discourse. The author was right to call it courting controversy because it’s the alt-right politicians business model. Like Trump, they lean into similar manosphere views but they tread the line enough for plausible deniability.

Bates sounds the alarm bells on just how massive these misogynistic movements are; they receive millions of YouTube views, site visitors, and forum contributions.