These are the ideas of the manosphere. Of the woman-hating fringes that thrive beneath the radar, undiscussed, unstudied, and unchecked. When their ideas are repackaged and brushed up for a mass audience—threaded carefully into mainstream dialogue through quasirespectable figures who act as human conduits, through social media algorithms that give their content undue prominence and make it appear more widely accepted, through media outlets seeking controversy and clickbait and the appearance of “balance”—they don’t emerge looking exactly the same. What starts out as hatred is subverted into
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