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Luc Olinga

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Founder of The Manosphere. Boston Globe contributor. Covering masculinity, AI, culture & power. Cameroon → Paris → New York. Ex-AFP, Gizmodo, TheStreet.
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Inside the School Trying to Reach Boys Before Andrew Tate Does

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By Luc Olinga 
| Medium
Inside the School Trying to Reach Boys Before Andrew Tate Does At a small Christian school in Houston, eleven boys are being handed an answer to a question the manosphere got to first: what does it mean to be a man? Press enter or click to view image in full size A retired Air Force colonel and former F-22 squadron commander teaches a class he calls AERO 101, walking the boys through lift, weight, and drag. Credit Photo: West Christian Prep.
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My Son Found the Manosphere. In Houston, I Found a Harder Answer

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By Luc Olinga 
| Substack
This is the opening essay in my Texas reporting series on the offline spaces trying to reach boys and men before the manosphere does. In the coming days, I’ll go deeper into each one: the school, the mentorship group, the church, and the ranch. I became a man in a slum in Yaoundé. Not metaphorically. Not gradually. I mean in the old way, with ritual, witnesses, fear, and consequence. At seven, I counted down the days to my circumcision with small sticks hidden in my schoolbag.
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The Manosphere Is Winning Young Men. I Went to Texas to Find Who's Fighting Back

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By Luc Olinga 
| Substack
I’ve been writing to you about the manosphere for a while now. But the story that pulled me into this work didn’t start online. It started with my own son. So this past April, I went looking for the people fighting back, not with takedowns or op-eds, but in person. I spent ten days in Houston, more than a dozen interviews, across schools, churches, mentorship groups, and a ranch two hours outside the city.
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