In 2017, 47 percent of Republican men agreed that “most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist.” A year later, after Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Brett Kavanaugh had been derided in the manosphere, painted across the media as a manipulative partisan conspiracy to topple an innocent man, and mocked by the president himself, the number jumped to 68 percent. Meanwhile, the number of Republican men who believe sexism is a problem in our society dropped.
