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

by Laura Bates

So Yiannopoulos waded into Gamergate with a deliberately inflammatory article on the influential and widely read Breitbart site, describing the victims of Gamergate abuse as “an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners…terrorizing the entire community—lying, bullying and manipulating their way around the internet for profit and attention.” After repackaging the (already widely debunked) slurs about Quinn’s sex life and making a string of other unsubstantiated allegations against her, Yiannopoulos went on to mimic many of the tactics already established by the wider campaign. “Let’s be honest,” he wrote. “We’re all used to feeling a niggling suspicion that ‘death threats’ sent to female agitators aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.”10

Men literally invented gaslighting