I'm Audie Cornish and this is the assignment and today we're talking about men.

So I'm going to show you some.

We're talking about the manosphere.

Are you even in the manosphere? Not really.

I guess so. Everybody in the manosphere is just there are people online who are trying to make a buck, you know, selling ideologies.

Louis Thoreau's recent Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere features conversations with alpha male influencers,

bringing the content of the red-filled corner of the internet into the mainstream in a different way.

And my guest today says that the heat of the red-filled corner of the internet into the mainstream in a different way. And my guest today says that the heat of the spotlight could really change things.

I truly do think the biggest thing is seeing all of these Manosphere-type figures in charge of our country

and seeing like, oh, no, I don't like this at all.

This is not going well.

I miss the hall monitors.

This is Jessica Gross.

She is an opinion writer for the New York Times.

And for more than a decade, she has tracked the rise of the so-called Manosphere, going

all the way back to Gamergate, to the charges against Andrew Tate,

to the Netflix limited series, adolescents.

So in her latest piece,

she argues that this might be the beginning

of the end of the cultural phenomenon

known as the Manosphere.

We're going to talk about

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