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Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Nostalgia in the Media

By the late 1970s, you have this distinct men's rights ideology that's starting to form and has settled into a well developed pattern of blaming women for the constraints that men face under American capitalism. And I think you could see some kind of broadly similar in their structure, things happening within kind of trans exclusionary radical feminism too, right? Absolutely. Yeah. So it's not only people's childhood, but a lot of this stuff like Harkens back to wait time when, for example, the average person had some level of hope that things could get better for them economically. This would all feed into the culture of Reagan era greed and corruption in the 1980s. Now alongside this

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