Women Battle Online Anti-Women Hate From the 'Manosphere'

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-10-20 22:55

Article here. Excerpt:

'Deep in the underbelly of the Internet is a hidden corner known as the "Manosphere"— a collection of websites, Facebook pages and chat rooms where men vent their rage and spew anti-women rhetoric.

Protected by the anonymity of the Internet, men feel free to post hateful and violent comments. Posts such as "I really wouldn't mind shooting a [expletive] dead in the face, they are evil, all of them," and "Women are the natural enemies of men" are commonplace on sites like "A Voice for Men," a Manosphere blog run by Paul Elam.
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But experts like Mark Potok, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, believe this rhetoric is problematic. "The Manosphere is an underworld of so-called men's rights groups and individuals on the Internet, which is just fraught with really hard-line anti-woman misogyny," Potok told "20/20."'

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Sending hate e-mail is wrong. People who send hate missives should think long and hard about whether they're going to have any positive effect for their cause. The answer is always no. As for hateful postings on the web, likewise. We know this simply by examining what kind of effect hateful posts or emailings have had on men or MRAs. Do feminists posting hateful misandrist rantings do much for getting more support for their cause, in particular from men? No. So no one ought to be surprised if the same is true going the other way.

While there's nothing wrong with a news story covering the problem of hateful postings on the Internet directed at women, I would simply like to point out that similar condemnation of hateful anti-male postings doesn't seem to be forthcoming from the MSM.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2013-10-21 00:24

the always funny joke that is the southern poverty law center. proof? go to their website and check out the groups they consider to be hate groups. you will find everything from 'Traditional Catholics' to the 'American Family Ass'n'. their list of hate groups is quite long, and absurd.

the fact that nuts like these are the 'goto' guys the lame stream media always site as being the experts on hate is telling in itself. following this type logic, it might be argued that naming organizations as being hate groups based on what a group of people organized, and almost exclusively staffed by people of one race, think is a hate group, might in itself be considered the actions of a hate group.

what a bunch of maroons.

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Submitted by daveinga on Tue, 2013-10-22 01:32