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"Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis
Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews.
“The people who run the world, they don’t have our best intentions,” says
Matthews, speaking in the language of the manosphere – where some influencers
and viewers believe they have tapped into a deeper truth about reality and
power. When Theroux asked who controlled all of that, Matthews shrugged and
answered this complex question very simply: “The Jews.”
It’s part of a three-minute digression from the film’s focus on masculinity,
with multiple influencers making antisemitic claims about global conspiracies.
The manosphere is a catchall term for websites, forums, blogs and influencers
promoting a particular kind of hypermasculinity, from the belief that women and
feminism are the cause of men’s problems to calls to legalize rape. Groups
within it – including pickup artists, men’s rights groups and “involuntary
celibate” or “incel” communities – portray themselves as victims of modernity.
In their eyes, the global economy is to blame for their unsatisfactory job
prospects, feminism is to blame for their failures with women, minority rights
are forcing them to relinquish their privilege as straight men, and so on.
And those digital spaces are rife with antisemitism. Some prominent influencers
openly deny the Holocaust, call for violence against Jews and spread global
conspiracy theories.
As a historian of Jewish gender and antisemitism, I know the connections
between misogyny and antisemitism have deep roots. For centuries, a frequent
tactic of antisemitism has been to attack Jewish men, deriding their
masculinity."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
