Misanthropy and misogyny, hatred of the breeding domesticating feminine, going together in the world of the alt-right is also nothing new. In The Sex Revolts Reynolds and Press argued that, in the rebel imagination, women figure as both victims and agents of ‘castrating conformity’. This link is particularly evident in the concept of momism, in Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers from 1942, a polemic on the degeneration of US society, engulfed by materialism and shallow feminized popular and consumer culture.
