ANTI MANOSPHERE TACTICS

BURNING DOWN THE STRAWMAN

I challenge you to find one manosphere critic who doesn't do the following.
Highlighting the few % extreme ends of the spectrum. Angry basement-dwelling incels on 4chan or highly questionable men like Andrew Tate. Pretending that he represents the "manosphere" when in reality he's one of many voices with drastically different opinions. I have personally never liked or shared any content from that man since he's been around. Ignoring the lifeline that it has given millions of men. Helping average men improve their social and dating skills. Men trying to improve their relationships/marriage. Men’s rights activists campaigning against unfair divorce and child access laws. Helping divorced men to recover. Helping sexually unsuccessful men cope with single life (i.e the very incels they despise but won’t help) Ignoring the female equivalents of men's bad behaviour. Twitter hashtags such as #MaleTears, #MaleFragility, #MenAreTrash, and #KillAllMen.
Highlighting content creators that go viral for their bad takes while ignoring the ones who don’t such as Caleb Jones, Phil Mitchell: Specialist Working With Abused Males or Troy Francis

Straw manning valid manosphere concepts as “incel language” as an attempt to discredit them in one swoop instead of dealing with them individually, rationally and logically. Examples include Red Pill, Blue Pill and 80/20. 
Create the image of the manosphere as some sort of weird cult group. Women who opt out of dating are labelled "strong and independent" by comparison. The phrase “going their way” debunks this by itself. Analysis of a Guardian article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxXcBejDN2g&t=0s

Using words like INCEL, MISOGYNY, PATRIARCHY,  RAPE CULTURE, TOXIC MASCULINITY, SEXISM, and HARASSMENT without ever clearly defining what they mean. Overusing these words to the point where they become meaningless. 
Claiming the 80/20 rule is based on a “single decade-old OK cupid study”, when in reality it’s based on masses of data and even the confessions of women themselves. 80/20 isn’t accurate anyway. RATIONAL MALE EXPLAINS 80/20 RULE
Tinder Experiment Proves How Brutal it Is for Average Guys
Half-truths such as “they say only 1 man reproduced for every 17 women” when in reality it happened for a short time 8000 years ago following the invention of agriculture.

8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Man - Pacific Standard

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