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Reclaiming Our Communities from the Manosphere
When language online becomes dangerous offline, silence is no longer a neutral stance.
Messages once limited to anonymous forums and obscure corners of the internet now shape how people talk to each other across dinner tables, classrooms, and text threads.
Misogyny used to arrive with warning signs. Now it slips through jokes. It shows up in “debates” that disguise contempt as intellect. It takes the form of advice offered as concern. It thrives because it blends in.
Misogynistic content is no longer fringe
Influencers who trade in humiliation, control, and power fantasies have been given platforms that reward their reach. Their words get stitched, reposted, remixed. Their followers grow by the millions. Their messages are framed as personal responsibility, strength, or truth.
Some people absorb it all quietly. Others repeat it out loud. And many never realize how far it has taken them from the people who love them.
These are not just toxic opinions
Stories like this one in The Guardian describe what happens when the ideas picked up online become the foundation for how people treat their partners, friends…
