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If you’ve been paying any attention to the War on the Manosphere lately, you’ve probably seen a few of the “those Manosphere guys always say…” videos from the anti-Manosphere Manosphere grifters. Last month, The Dispatch published Rise of the Anti-Manosphere, Introducing the Gentlemanosphere, in an effort to foster some ‘healthier’ version of the Manosphere. Of course, that healthier version always serves a feminine ideal.

“Women file for divorce by an order of magnitude greater than men!” If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Manosphere, you’ve likely heard that between 69% and 80% of divorces are filed by women. The numbers vary depending on who’s doing the tabulating, but I think 75% is a good round number that’s remained consistent for as long as I’ve been in the Manosphere (24 years). Regardless of who does the counting, it’s pretty obvious women are the ones doing at least three-quarters of the divorcing.

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else." – Arnold Schwarzenegger I had an interesting conversation with one of our Access Vegas girls about why she wore the sexy outfits she did. “I do it for me.” “Really? Lingerie, high heels, push-up bra, that’s all for you?” “Of course.

I generally shy away from focusing on definitions because they tend to lead us into intractable ratholes, but the fact remains that definitions are important. In the case of the term Manosphere, this is especially important because there is a tendency outside the sphere to mistake the Manosphere for a collection of readers and writers who are in general intellectual agreement.

Her tweet read, “I don’t understand why men are so obsessed with their Legacy. A real man will always step up and take responsibility for children, even if he’s not the actual father.” The replies were every bit the outrage blowback you would expect from men, but not a single woman chimed in. I’ve seen these posts often enough to dismiss them as rage-bait, but then I detected a note of genuine confusion.

You’ve seen it a hundred times. You watch a friend’s wife roll her eyes at him because he didn’t get some subtle cue or expression, and she relates to him like an autistic child. Why can’t he just get it? It is always a mistake to explain the game of intersexual dynamics to women. I’ve written essays about this since 2014. Back then, I added a caveat: never talk about Red Pill concepts with women you want to get intimate with.

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Responsibility without authority is slavery. For more than two decades, the Manosphere has discussed the dynamics of men bearing 100% responsibility while being conferred 0% authority in relationships and life in general. Ask any TradFluencer for the solution to the Gender Divide or the Crisis of Masculinity, and you’ll get some variation of “Well, men need to take more responsibility.” Do better. Try harder. Pray more. Take on more responsibility, and men will self-correct.

Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere created a lot of misguided content in its wake. It emboldened a subset of Red Pill / Manosphere haters to rattle off self-righteous videos and social media posts about what they’d like their followers to think the Manosphere is about. Every one of these reaction content pieces follows a common theme based on what I’ve referred to as Confident Ignorance.

I’ve been loath to do a dedicated essay about the abortion of a documentary that is, provocateur (not filmmaker) Louis Theroux’s, Inside the Manosphere. I’ve already addressed it on two dedicated podcasts since its airing, but those were to be expected. Expected, like everything else that’s followed in its wake.