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WINGS

Web manosphere and revolt of the beta-men

By Aoife Cooke
| July 17, 2016

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Title: rpnWINGS11-16WebManosphere-29_07-192kbps
Length: 0:29:06 minutes (39.98 MB)
Format: 44.1kHz, 192Kbps

Show Notes:

Fan image from 4chan of Trump as a frog

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The Red Pill, Pick-up Artists, the Beta Uprising and MGTOW [Men Going Their Own Way] -- these are some of the online forums for rallying anti-feminist online subcultures that are hosted on major websites like 4chan and Reddit. There, fans abound for Donald Trump, and lonely social misfits may be lauded for committing murders.

Angela Nagle, an Irish journalist whose doctoral research was about sexism on the Internet, analyzes what she sees as the geeky new sexism espoused by a gender-fluid generation. She spoke to Aoife Cooke of Australia's national radio series Women on the Line.

 

 

Tags:
internet activism internet trolls cyber misogyny

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