“Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere

Dickel, Valerie; Evolvi, Giulia

doi:10.1080/14680777.2022.2029925

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“…Promoting dialogue and conversation to engage men as allies is more pertinent than ever as some young men are discussing these issues and seeking support for their questions around sex and relationships through the 'manosphere' (Dickel and Evolvi, 2022). This refers to a collection of websites loosely united by an anti-feminist worldview (Dickel and Evolvi, 2022). While both stakeholders and young people referenced the problematic role of pornography and social and digital technologies, in facilitating gender-violence and the learning of normative sexual scripts, no participant referred to this online 'networked misogyny' (Dickel and Evolvi, 2022: 4) that focuses on opposition to popular feminism.…”

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“…We note that in the context of the perceived stigma of men as feminist allies here, no participant spoke about the broader backlash against feminism (Dickel and Evolvi, 2022) where male feminist allies are sometimes castigated as 'traitors' (Hopton and Langer, 2022). Philip only passingly referred to the sexual entitlement of incels (male 'involuntary celibates' who blame women for their lack of romantic and sexual experience) (Dickel and Evolvi, 2022) while James (stakeholder) briefly mentioned the internet as a source of learning about inegalitarian gender ideologies.…”

Section: Promoting Men's Voices and Involvement In Feminist And Gende...mentioning

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‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland

Bolton,

Edwards,

Leane

et al. 2024

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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This article reports on how young people (aged 18–24) and stakeholders working in the area of violence against women (VAW) in Ireland, perceive young men’s role in addressing VAW. We find that men are considered well positioned to intervene as active bystanders and to engage in feminist allyship. However, several barriers to men’s active bystanding and engagement with the issue of VAW, as well as ethical, theoretical and practice issues, need to be considered. These include: the privileging of men’s willingness to listen to other men, thereby devaluing women’s perspectives; pluralistic ignorance where men feel other men do not share their discomfort of violence-supportive practices; and a tendency for men to default to confrontational modes of active bystanding. We highlight how these issues are even more pertinent to address given the presence of political forces that seek to stymie men’s support for feminist activism and causes related to gender politics.

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Section: Promoting Men's Voices and Involvement In Feminist And Gende...mentioning

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‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland

Bolton,

Edwards,

Leane

et al. 2024

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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“…Studies of online settings such as Reddit have revealed considerable misogynistic rhetoric, as well as explicit support of violence against women (e.g., Farrell et al, 2019). The discourse in such settings is explicitly antifeminist, claiming that feminism has had a negative impact on society and the ability to express masculinity authentically (e.g., Dickel & Evolvi, 2023; Ging, 2019; Menzie, 2022). Much of this discourse is anchored in an explicitly articulated philosophy (referred to as “Red Pill”) which calls upon the eugenics-oriented hierarchical ideologies that historically supported patriarchy (e.g., Vallerga & Zurbriggen, 2022; Van Valkenburgh, 2021).…”

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The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Hammack,

Manago

2024

American Psychologist

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The 21st century has seen shifts in social and scientific understandings of gender and sexuality in the United States. From the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the heightened visibility of transgender identities, nonbinary gender, and forms of intimate diversity such as asexuality, kink, and polyamory, core cultural and scientific assumptions about gender and sexuality have been challenged. This article situates these changes in the historical context of 21st century social technologies, which challenge traditional sources of authority about information and provide enhanced opportunities for individuals to experience authenticity in gender and sexuality. We frame authenticity as a master cultural narrative in the United States characterized by feeling a heightened sense of self-authorship and alignment between inner experience and embodiment of gender and sexuality. Five narratives now circulate in the United States, four of which support sexual and gender diversity: (a) gender as self-constructed; (b) sexuality as plural, playful, flexible, and fluid; (c) sexuality and monogamy as cultural compulsions; and (d) intersectionality as central to the experience of sexuality and gender. A fifth narrative seeking to legitimize hierarchies (e.g., patriarchy) is hostile to sexual and gender diversity but remains anchored in a metanarrative of authenticity and has benefitted equally from the affordances of social technologies. This historical moment provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to more intentionally ground their work in lived experience, challenge normative thinking about sexuality and gender, practice affirmation, center the phenomenon of diversity over discrete identity categories in an ever-exclusionary acronym (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and more identities [LGBTQ+]), and embrace fluid and nonlinear narratives of social change.

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“…Table III displays that transformer-based models outperform others, with a peak of 69.4% on Ethnicity and a low of 60.7% on Sexorient. We can attribute this to the fact that HateBERT is trained on social media platforms, where homophobia is often intertwined with racism [12]. This leads to a gain in detecting hate speech in Ethnicity but may have a negative impact on Sexorient.…”

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Tad: A Domain-Aware Framework Learning to Adapt Target Shifts of Hate Speech

Xi,

Yuan,

Singh

2023

Preprint

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Hate speech targets different social groups such as race and gender, and poses a significant threat to social harmony. Researchers are increasingly motivated to devise efficient techniques to improve automatic hate speech detection on social media platforms. However, current models are usually evaluated without considering hate speech targets and fail when the targets are unseen in the training data. In this study, we examine target (domain) shifts of hate speech and propose, \emph{Tad}, an adaptation framework for neural models that adopts domain-aware networks to improve cross-domain hate speech detection. Tad features a hate knowledge lexicon infusion network, a domain-specific network, and a weighting network. We demonstrate that incorporating Tad improves the performance of leading neural models in hate speech detection when tested on unseen domains. Specifically, Tad yields improvements of up to 8$.1\%$ and an average of $2.4\%$ in macro F1-scores. Moreover, we identify data quality and quantity as vital factors to address performance gaps between models tested on seen and unseen domains. Our results reveal that excessive knowledge infusion may result in a decrease in performance such as for \textsl{Religion}. In addition, we find trade-offs in cross-domain hate speech detection. For example, weighted loss for heavily imbalanced data generally improves performance.

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“Victims of feminism”: exploring networked misogyny and #MeToo in the manosphere

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland

‘I would love to do something about it’: young men’s role in addressing violence against women in Ireland

The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Tad: A Domain-Aware Framework Learning to Adapt Target Shifts of Hate Speech

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