#Notallmen, #Menenism, Manospheres and Unsafe Spaces: Overt and Subtle Masculinism in Anti-“PC” Discourse

Nicholas, Lucy; Agius, Christine

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68360-7_2

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“…The online sphere introduces an interesting dynamic to an understanding of the representation and embodiment of toxic masculinity. In spaces such as the Manosphere, Nicholas and Agius (2018: 51) highlight how many of those who make up these online spaces do not embody hegemonic masculinity and self-identify as ‘beta’ men. 2 However, Banet-Weiser and Miltner (2016) document the ways in which the power structures that support masculine identity offline are also present in online space.…”

Section: Toxic Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Incels have been attributed responsibility for inciting several high-profile incidents of male violence – the 2014 Isla Vista killings (Blommaert, 2017) perpetrated by Elliot Rodger and later the 2018 Toronto van attack perpetrated by Alek Minassian (Jaki et al, 2018). These attacks have put a spotlight on MRA and Incel groups within the Manosphere, and the literature has begun to conceptualise the link between these subcultures and how they may encourage and propagate violence (Dragiewicz and Mann, 2016; Kalish and Kimmel, 2010; Nicholas and Agius, 2018). Furthermore, platforms such as Reddit have begun to respond to the threat posed by radical Manosphere groups, closing the r/Incels subreddit and suspending r/TheRedPill.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment

Jones

Trott

Wright

2019

New Media & Society

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Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) are a separatist Manosphere group (digital manifestation of the Men’s Liberation Movement) who focus on individualistic, self-empowering actions as opposed to traditional collective actions typical of Men’s Rights Activists and Incels. This study investigates how the ideology and rhetoric of MGTOW propagates and normalises misogynistic beliefs through online harassment, using a multi-phased content and thematic analysis of 10,280 tweets from three of the most active MGTOW users on Twitter. The findings document a link between the MGTOW ideology and toxic masculinity, showing that the online harassment generated is deeply misogynistic and polices the boundaries of a heterosexual, hegemonic masculinity. The analysis demonstrates that while the misogyny and violence produced by MGTOW is not extreme in nature, their appeals to rational thinking make it seem like common sense. The article develops new knowledge about the heterogeneous nature of the Manosphere and its constructions of masculinity.

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Section: Toxic Masculinitymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment

Jones

Trott

Wright

2019

New Media & Society

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“…Responding to this, the backlash has been preoccupied with who the real victims are. One of its central claims is that ‘feminism has gone too far’ (Nicholas and Aguis, 2017: 31), and that men are now fearful because harmless touching has been defined as abuse. These narratives are bolstered by broader stories of white victimhood which have underpinned Brexit, the election of Trump, and the elevation of other far-right figures and parties worldwide (Corredor, 2019).…”

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White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism

Phipps

2021

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Using #MeToo as a starting point, this paper argues that the cultural power of mainstream white feminism partly derives from the cultural power of white tears. This in turn depends on the dehumanisation of people of colour, who were constructed in colonial ‘race science’ as incapable of complex feeling (Schuller, 2018). Colonialism also created a circuit between bourgeois white women’s tears and white men’s rage, often activated by allegations of rape, which operated in the service of economic extraction and exploitation. This circuit endures, abetting the criminal punishment system and the weaponisation of ‘women’s safety’ by the various border regimes of the right. It has especially been utilised by reactionary forms of feminism, which set themselves against sex workers and trans people. Such feminisms exemplify what I call ‘political whiteness’, which centres assertions of victimhood: through these, womanhood (and personhood) is claimed to the exclusion of the enemy. Through legitimating criminal punishment and border policing and dehumanising marginalised Others, claims to victimhood in mainstream feminism often end up strengthening the intersecting violence of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy.

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“…Reddit has found itself host to a range of communities that are connected to the Manosphere, a loose confederacy of male-only groups, that have gained public attention for perpetuating violent and misogynistic attitudes (Ging 2017: 638). Some of these groups have been directly tied to incidences of mass violence offline provoking media scrutiny into the role of platforms like Reddit in hosting violent men's groups (Kalish and Kimmel 2010;Nicholas and Agius 2018). Reddit has responded to the mounting public scrutiny by sanctioning subreddit communities that are deemed offensive to the mainstream public.…”

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Tuning Out Hate Speech on Reddit: Automating Moderation and Detecting Toxicity in the Manosphere

Trott

Beckett

Paech

2020

SPIR

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Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explain how this interacts with Google’s Perspective tool.

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#Notallmen, #Menenism, Manospheres and Unsafe Spaces: Overt and Subtle Masculinism in Anti-“PC” Discourse

Cited by 32 publications

References 27 publications

Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment

Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment

White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism

Tuning Out Hate Speech on Reddit: Automating Moderation and Detecting Toxicity in the Manosphere

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