It wasn’t until I started researching the manosphere to write this book that I began to stumble across increasing numbers of casual forum discussions and chatroom threads dedicated to fantasizing about raping and murdering me specifically. As I worked my way through the different manosphere communities, I saw the way they treat women who have dared to write about them or even simply to make the briefest comments about them on social media. Borrowing the wording of jihadist terrorism, an incel message board contained an announcement about a female journalist who made a single YouTube video
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