I think young men shouldn't be looking at social media personalities for you know what it is to be a man. They're much better off looking within their local communities, families and friendship networks for emulating masculinities that they find supportive nurturing healthy places in the world. I have hopes not high hopes but some hopes of what a more progressive kind of manosphere might look like on one that's kind of free of the misogyny and anti-feminist type stances. Whether that will actually come to pass is an open question though.
Controversial manfluencer Andrew Tate is in a Romanian prison, accused of rape and human trafficking. Vox’s Rebecca Jennings and sociolinguist Robert Lawson explain why his brand of grotesque misogyny appeals to millions of men.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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