Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all

by Laura Bates

He left the warning, “And just like me, there will be others… we are your sons, your brothers, we are everywhere.”

Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.

Women have always been the canaries in the coal mines, quietly singing. But we are so used to seeing them die at men’s hands, so used to justifying and excusing it as normal or “understandable,” that it wouldn’t occur to us to consider this enough of an aberration to raise alarm. And so women continue to suffer and die in silence.