Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As Laurie Penny argues feminists have been condemned to be the Casandras of the Manosphere - they warned us decades ago that it would come to this, and too often they were mocked for a 'lack of a sense of humour' or exaggerating the threat.... but I imagine few feminists will be glad that their warnings have been comprehensively vindicated.

Rather we should have listened then & we should listen now...

#Manosphere #gender #feminism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/13/gamergate-andrew-tate-manosphere-feminists

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored

We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activist Laurie Penny

The Guardian
Apr 13 at 5:28pmWeb
Show threadFrançois @Jura1d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 These men are pathetic: dumb, petty and greedy. Here are inspiring models for men: George Carlin and Carl Sagan. I might even add George Clooney.
Show threadgabby wheels1d ago

@ChrisMayLA6

from the article:

" As Kurt Vonnegut writes in his anti-fascist masterpiece Mother Night, “we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be”."