Series ‘Adolescence’: As the Manosfera became mainstream – BBC News in Serbian

At the center of the action of new Netflix’s drama Adolescence Is a disturbing question: What can be the thirteen-year-old to kill his school friend?

One of the answers seems to be lying in ‘manosfers’.

The term of the manospitaire was first skilled in 2009. years and describes the network of internet communities dealing with things that interest men.

These groups represent different ideologies – from belief that men do not have institutional power, to more extreme, misogyhouses (hatred of women) attitudes.

However, the manospitaire survived the limits of the Internet now.

This extreme content promotes social network algorithms, which allows him to reach a large number of users, which was not possible earlier.

Influential on the Internet (influensers) that promote a particular type of masculinity, such as Andrew Tate, today are world famous.

Jack Torn, Screenplay Series Adolescencedived into digital labyrinths of this community to explore the manospitaire.

« I realized that there was something really attractive in that, » he said in the BBC show Newsnate.

« And not only Andrew Tate. These views are everywhere. »

Experts warn that influensions and these groups use the breakup of traditional communities and a gap resulting from the social and economic difficulties faced by young people.

Reply to feminism

During the second wave of Feminism, the 1970s, who addressed the Equality of Equality and the Fighting of Discrimination, was a prominent activist movement for the liberation of men, feminist organizations whose members were men.

He believed that gender roles and patriarchy damage and men.

However, when feminists began talking about the epidemic of human violence against women, there was a conflict between these two movements, explains Professor Debbi Ging, which studies the manospitaire.

In time, Farel gained confidence that feminists were more interested in power than equality, and that attitude began to accept an increasing number of men.

Movement for the liberation of men disintegrated because Farel and other members disappointed in the feminist movement.

During the 1990s, Farel wrote several books in which he claims that men were oppressed, that domestic violence was a two-way problem and that women themselves were guilty of unequal salaries.

These attitudes are shared in the early phases of the Internet forum, and many today’s human rights activists are seen as the basis of today’s forums, Ging says.

Forums in 1990s

As the internet began to develop during the 1990s, men’s rights activists have established internet forums and ‘chat rooms’ (Chat Rooms).

Initially, not all of these groups were harmful.

Due to the problem in love, Queen Student launched the first Internet forum for the ‘Incel’ community, which is an abbreviation of involuntary celibate, in translation unwarranted celibacy.

It is for the BBC 2018. said the forum was originally intended for everyone.

However, as the number of users grew, the content was less and less edited.

Discussions started in the direction of sexism, and the new communities created were created to use the term incel in a completely different way.

Instead of being a place to talk about challenges in relationships, men began to blame women for being lonely.

There were also completely different forums ‘pick up artist’ communities in which men exchanged strategies for winning women, calling themselves ‘alfa’, which should signify masculinity or masculinity.

Liza Sugijura, a high-tech crime and author of the book on the history of the Manosfere, says BBC that these groups, similar to Incel Forums, soon began to promote the views of views.

« At first they shared advice and strategies for coming to women.

« But what they actually suggested was that women did not have their own will, that they had no right to say ‘no’, » she says.

Incel groups become mainstream

The advent of social networks, the manospitaire became Mainstream.

Incel groups gathered on platforms, such as Facebook, Jutjuba and Redit, which gave access to a wider audience.

Groups began to combine and borrow ideologies from each other to attract as many followers as possible.

One of the basic narratives of these groups was a belief that men have a much less chance of meeting and entertaining.

In series Adolescence The so-called « Rule 80/20 » is mentioned, according to which 80 percent of women are only interested in 20 percent of men.

This claim was actually created on the basis of the misinterpreted survey.

If a man accepted this ideology, she was considered to « swallow the red pill » – reference to the film Matrixdenoting « awakening » in terms of social injustices.

Professor Ging says for the BBC that these networks forum created a new form of political activism against feminism.

« We testified to a digital hunt on witches warning women in consequences if they cross certain boundaries. »

The Manosfera is 2014. organized a hate campaign against women in the gaming industry, using Doksing (Targeting and blackmail) and threats.

In the same year, the manospitaire spilled from the digital space into the real world of violence.

In Ice Vista in California, 22-year-old Eliot Roger, who called himself an incel, killed six and wounded 14 people in the intention of « punishing » women who refused.

It was the first in a series of famous crimes and attacks related to this community.

Sugiura says these attacks further empowered members of the most extreme forums and chat rooms, who now « celebrate every time a woman’s murder gets media attention. »

Although these groups have become notorious, they remained on the margins of the Internet.

‘Acceptable’ extreme ideas

Social networks that favor short video formats, encouraged the narrative of the manospitumes in the mainstream, thanks to influensors such as Andrew Tate, who publicly and openly admits that he is a woman’s wife.

Tate is in the United Kingdom specialized for sexual abuse.

Influensers Manosfers wider extreme attitudes, combining concepts taken from Incel and Pick up artist Community.

However, now these concepts associate with self-help, fitness and financial advice and simple solutions for complex problems are often offered, usually in the form of products or courses.

Sugiura believes that influensaire succeeded in this way they managed to make these extreme messages more eligible.

« The manospitiff does not only promote mizogynia and hatred.

« It is represented so that it seems to deal with self help and personal development, » she says.

At the same time, it fills the gap for young men looking for society.

At the same time, he explains Sugiura, feel pressure to fit into an idealized image of masculinity, and there are no space where they could talk about their loneliness, depression and anxiety.

Jack Torn, Screenplay Series Adolescence, He said in the show of the BBC that influensions who promote masculinities only part of the wider spectrum of problems affecting teenagers, the main character in the series.

« Problems are the parents who neglected it, the school system that let him down and the views he absorbed.

« It is an ordinary, average family and an ordinary world.

« It’s really worrying what is possible today. »

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