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The Hartmann Report

Attack of the Right Wing Man-o-sphere Influencers

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What is going on in American society that is leading some men toward retrograde attitudes against women? Meanwhile, anti-abortion media is getting nasty- is there a connection?

Plus - Thom reads from "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" by Amy Gajda.


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0:27.8

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0:30.8

Manosphere personalities,

0:33.6

Bandroote, Sneco, John Zerka are promoting abuse and extreme violence against women online.

0:40.4

They write over at mediamatters.org.

0:42.9

Manosphere influencers promoting abuse and violence against women.

0:47.7

These influencers they write have defended beating women, mocking abuse survivors,

0:52.4

and called for the acceptance of abuse against women similar to customs and Saudi Arabia.

0:57.6

They call themselves the Manosphere.

1:00.3

It's an online community of right-wing websites, bloggers, and influencers who blame

1:04.4

women for myriad societal woes and treat them as the inferior sex.

1:10.4

Sometimes people get young men get drawn into this by websites that are theoretically about

1:15.8

weightlifting or video games or boxing, but in fact are just kind of entry points for this really

1:22.8

horrible misogynist hate women kind of content.

1:27.3

Tate, for example, said relationships only work if a woman obeys like she's supposed to.

1:32.6

That's right.

1:35.8

This is, you know, I don't understand the connection here.

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