What is the manosphere?
6 Minute English
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đď¸ 31 July 2025
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Have you ever come across a so-called masculinity influencer on social media?
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| 0:42.8 | I'm Phil. |
| 0:43.9 | And I'm Georgie. |
| 0:48.8 | We hear a lot about the difficulties young men face growing up in the modern world and how many of them are looking online for answers. |
| 0:52.7 | This has created a situation which has been given the name |
| 0:55.7 | the Manosphere. What exactly is the Manosphere? Here's Anita Rani, presenter of BBC Radio 4's |
| 1:03.1 | Woman's Hour, with one definition. The Manosphere consists of online communities and influences |
| 1:09.3 | that promote the idea that emotional control, |
| 1:11.9 | material wealth, physical appearance and dominance, especially over women, are markers of male worth. |
| 1:18.0 | The Manosphere describes attitudes expressed online that men are superior. |
| 1:22.3 | You won't find any website named www. www.manosphere.com, but in social media posts, TikTok videos and other online |
| 1:31.3 | content, ideas about how to be a man of finding a young male audience, sometimes with damaging |
| 1:38.6 | results. In this episode, we'll hear from Will Adolphi, a young British man who followed the |
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