The Deadly Consequences of Misogyny | Cynthia Miller-Idriss
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Eric Skwarczynski
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes—even if they are also motivated by racism, antisemitism, or xenophobia. The antigovernment militiamen charged with plotting to kidnap and execute Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer used language saturated with misogyny, with one telling an FBI informant, “Just grab the bitch.” The men who killed scores at Virginia Tech, the Pulse nightclub, and a Maryland newsroom all had prior reports of stalking, domestic violence, or harassment of women. And in dozens of other incidents—from North America to Norway to New Zealand—an increasing number of misogynist incel (involuntary celibate) and male supremacist attackers have explicitly targeted and killed women, blaming feminism or sexual frustration with women as motivation for their attacks.
Yet, despite all evidence, the bright red thread of misogyny running through these attacks is barely acknowledged by the media or even experts—and this failing leaves us powerless to stop the violence. In Man Up, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, addresses this crucial oversight head-on, revealing how an epidemic of misogyny—both online and off—and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence. She also offers essential strategies that all of us—including parents, teachers, and counselors—can use to fight the rising tide of violence, beginning with recognizing the misogyny that pervades our everyday lives.
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| 0:00.0 | 34% of nearly 5,000 women killed in the United States in 2021 died at the hands of their intimate |
| 0:06.5 | partner. |
| 0:07.7 | 94% of far-right violent and non-violent extremists in the United States between 1948 and |
| 0:13.8 | 2021 are men. |
| 0:15.9 | Men commit 98% of mass shootings and commit at least 94% of sexual abuse. And of all mass murders in the |
| 0:23.4 | United States in 2021, 83% of the offenders had a history of prior violence against women. |
| 0:30.2 | These are just a few of the disturbing stats revealed in Cynthia Miller Idris's new book, |
| 0:35.1 | Man Up, the new misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. |
| 0:38.7 | My name is Eric Schwarzensky. I'm the host of the Preach Boys podcast, and I'm a former |
| 0:42.4 | fundamentalist who sheds light on the dark side of the church from the pulpits to the pews, |
| 0:47.2 | and today I'm diving into the topic of misogyny and violence against women with Cynthia Miller |
| 0:53.3 | Idris. Cynthia is a leading expert on the topic of extremism. |
| 0:57.0 | She's a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs |
| 1:01.0 | and the School of Education at American University, |
| 1:03.0 | where she's the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, or Paril. |
| 1:10.0 | In her book, she asks, what are the two things that |
| 1:13.7 | most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first. They are |
| 1:19.3 | almost always men or boys. But the second, they are almost always misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes, |
| 1:25.6 | even if they are also motivated by racism, |
| 1:28.2 | anti-Semitism, or xenophobia. |
| 1:30.2 | Yet, despite all evidence, the bright red thread of misogyny running through these attacks |
| 1:34.7 | is barely acknowledged by the media or even experts, and this failing leaves us powerless to |
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