Column | Andrew Tate for the girls

The series Adolescence Is about the ‘Manosphere’, I read everywhere. A 13-year-old boy was rejected by a schoolmate, and kills her with a knife. The series led to a lot of debate about boys, ‘incels’ (Involuntary Celibates) and the Manosphere. I welcome that. Yet I could not escape the thought that something was in the background in all debates about the derailment of men today. I was also shocked by the behavior of the girls on the schoolyard in the series. You may find them assertive or nice and articulate, I thought them downwards to, rude and bully. With that I do not want to say that they cause the behavior of boys, but that something toxic here also seems to be playing. And that it is great that a fictional series also puts this on the agenda.

As far as I’m concerned, we must also talk about the advancing Womanospherealso called the femosphere named. What started as a counter -reaction to the Manosphere (and therefore first called ‘feminist’), has since grown into a creepy female counterpart with many similarities with the Manosphere,  »Andrew Tate for girls« Baptized. The ‘Femcel’ stirs on digital platforms. ‘Femfluencers’ lead the conservative path with an essentialist view of sex relationships. Women are good at give birth, submissive, but with fantastic qualities for the household. Femcels hate Woke, Feminism, Science and LGBTQ+ and share the remorse about their oppressed position with their male Manosphere-Evenknie. They encourage women to face reality, the Pink Pill to swallow (men take the Red Pill). Feminism does not yield your family or company, but means to work like a man to the lonely top. You can better invest in your thin female appearance, and just like the Manosphere men go to the gym a lot. With your ‘female dating strategies’ you become invulnerable, and you wake yourself against disappointments. I saw this (played) hardness with the young women in the schoolyard Adolescence.

The Womanosphere includes femfluencers (such as Kate Mackz) and a magazine (Evie), and she fits seamlessly in Trumps Maga universe. On the website of Evie Is a blonde woman in a tight dirndl blousje, who milks a cow. Make America Sexy Again! The Womanosphere promotes a white thin female ideal. You can laugh away as a (still) relatively marginal phenomenon, but an expert in The Guardian warns: The Womanosphere is a “Gateway Drug Into More Extreme Conservative ideologies« That involves an aggressive form of fatalism, biological essentialism and enemy thinking towards liberal feminism.

Extreme ideas are normalized through popular culture. They smartly use the language of aesthetics. Jessica Grosse puts in one podcast from The New York Times The ‘Maga-Beauty’-the ‘Republican’ make-up aesthetics-and how you immediately recognize the Maga woman. The conservative female aesthetics propagates long curled hair, heavy makeup, large earrings, clothing that accentuates the shape – in short: hyper -feminine. Think Kristi call, Nancy Mace, or in the Netherlands Raisa Blommestijn and Arlette Adriani. Designing a ‘democratic aesthetics’ is more difficult, because it drives on the freedom of the individual, or it must be something as general as little makeup or crazy colors in the hair (left).

With this rise of the Womanosphere, a feminist counter -movement is needed faster than ever. But ‘feminism is currently mainly concerned with endlessly arguing over what Feminist is, think of the debate around the film Baby girl. Exemplary for the impasse is the recently published book Enemy Feminismsin which the radical left-wing feminist Sophie Lewis wants to determine in inaccessible and complacent prose what ‘danger feminisms’ are (Girl Boss feminism, anti-porn feminism, police women, etc.) and what she believes is the only correct morally pure form of feminism. It makes her so knowledgeable, annoying, on-curious and pro-canon culture that she loses all my sympathy although We fight against the same danger of conservatism and extreme right -wing ideology.

As long as feminism loses itself in a mutual tribal battle, Trump only spins it. I have the most confidence in humor as a weapon against the advancing Womanosphere. I enjoyed one TIKTOK VIDEO With a ‘Republican makeup’ tutorial. Lubach, I beg you, pick it up. Make that Womanosphere Make America Sexy Again Trend ridiculous, before they get hold of our daughters.