Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All (Essential Book for Women's History Month)
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Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.
Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote this book as someone who has been the target of many hate-fueled misogynistic attacks online. At first, the vitriol seemed to be the work of a small handful of individual men... but over time, the volume and consistency of the attacks hinted at something bigger and more ominous. As Bates went undercover into the corners of the internet, she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon women.
In the book, Bates explores: Extreme communities like incels, pick-up artists, MGTOW, Men's Rights Activists and more The hateful, toxic rhetoric used by these groups How this movement connects to other extremist movements like white supremacy How young boys are targeted and slowly drawn in Where this ideology shows up in our everyday lives in mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government
By turns fascinating and horrifying, Men Who Hate Women is a broad, unflinching account of the deep current of loathing toward women and anti-feminism that underpins our society and is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who believes in equality for women.
Praise for Men Who Hate Women:
"Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival."―Gloria Steinem
"Well-researched and meticulously documented, Bates's book on the power and danger of masculinity should be required reading for us all."―Library Journal
"Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change."―Sunday Times
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I want to bleach my brain, but I need everyone to listen.
In all honesty, it took me a long while to finish this book. Not because it was boring or too hard to read (though it was challenging to translate at times), but because it made me cry within the first 10 pages. I knew right then it was more than I could chew, so I had to read it in small portions. 'Important' feels like too small of a word to describe how much I want everyone to read this. I was thrust into a world I knew almost nothing about, and even though I wish it could have stayed that way, I can’t decide what would be worse: knowing or not knowing. I annotated the everloving hell out of this book. I know people who have lived through the hell mentioned, and it happened to me too. It also made me realize how much my own thinking has been compromised by the things described. I will keep talking about this book. I’ll try to openly discuss it with others, even though I’m usually too nervous to debate. This topic is just too important to stay silent."
Description
Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.
Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote this book as someone who has been the target of many hate-fueled misogynistic attacks online. At first, the vitriol seemed to be the work of a small handful of individual men... but over time, the volume and consistency of the attacks hinted at something bigger and more ominous. As Bates went undercover into the corners of the internet, she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon women.
In the book, Bates explores: Extreme communities like incels, pick-up artists, MGTOW, Men's Rights Activists and more The hateful, toxic rhetoric used by these groups How this movement connects to other extremist movements like white supremacy How young boys are targeted and slowly drawn in Where this ideology shows up in our everyday lives in mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government
By turns fascinating and horrifying, Men Who Hate Women is a broad, unflinching account of the deep current of loathing toward women and anti-feminism that underpins our society and is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who believes in equality for women.
Praise for Men Who Hate Women:
"Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival."―Gloria Steinem
"Well-researched and meticulously documented, Bates's book on the power and danger of masculinity should be required reading for us all."―Library Journal
"Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change."―Sunday Times
Book Information
Posts
I want to bleach my brain, but I need everyone to listen.
In all honesty, it took me a long while to finish this book. Not because it was boring or too hard to read (though it was challenging to translate at times), but because it made me cry within the first 10 pages. I knew right then it was more than I could chew, so I had to read it in small portions. 'Important' feels like too small of a word to describe how much I want everyone to read this. I was thrust into a world I knew almost nothing about, and even though I wish it could have stayed that way, I can’t decide what would be worse: knowing or not knowing. I annotated the everloving hell out of this book. I know people who have lived through the hell mentioned, and it happened to me too. It also made me realize how much my own thinking has been compromised by the things described. I will keep talking about this book. I’ll try to openly discuss it with others, even though I’m usually too nervous to debate. This topic is just too important to stay silent."