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 are trying to improve their relationships/marriage. Men’s rights activists are 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 who go viral for their bad takes, the guy screaming on a livestream, the grifter selling nonsense, the angry kid with no social skills, and they present him as representative of the entire ecosystem. While ignoring the ones who don’t, such as Caleb Jones, Phil Mitchell: Specialist Working With Abused Males, or Troy Francis The calm voices, the older men, the thoughtful conversations about dating skills, divorce law, family court incentives, fatherlessness, male loneliness, and suicide never make the conversation because those complicate the story. Complexity is bad for the narrative they’re trying to sell.

Ignoring people like Rollo Tomassi who has been in the space since 2004.

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 Alpha male, Red Pill, Blue Pill and 80/20.  Portray the manosphere as a bizarre cult-like group. Women who opt out of dating are labelled "strong and independent" by comparison. The phrase “going their way” debunks this on its own. Analysis of a Guardian article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxXcBejDN2g&t=0s It's easier than engaging with actual data or admitting institutional neglect of male issues.

Instead of asking why young men feel alienated or why family courts create such resentment, the conversation becomes “good people versus bad people.” Once that frame is set, anyone talking about the underlying issues gets lumped in with the most inflammatory, controversial personalities.

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