Misogyny and 'Manosphere' Spreading To Playgrounds 'and Is a Terror Threat', Author Says
On 12/17/20 at 5:55 AM EST
Children are being targeted online through chat rooms, memes and viral videos by groups that welcome extreme acts of violence against women and we should be far more worried about it than we are, says author and campaigner Laura Bates.
The founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, started in 2012 to collate women's experiences of sexism, spent months undercover in the darkest depths of the internet to lift a lid on the "manosphere", an online community made up of various sub-groups including men's rights activists, pick-up artists, incels or involuntary celibates who blame their lack of sexual activity on women, and MGTOWs, the "men going their own way" who have vowed to abandon all romantic relationships with women and believe society has been destroyed by feminism.