The Manosphere and the Long History of Misogyny

Friday 21 August 2026 The emergence of the so-called “manosphere” is often presented as a uniquely twenty-first century phenomenon. Its podcasts, online forums, influencers and algorithmically amplified rhetoric appear inseparable from social media, digital culture and the economics of online attention. Yet while its methods are modern, many of its underlying assumptions are remarkably ancient.…