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Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Behind the Bastards

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The Dissonance of Anti-Semitism

In 1953, Hugh Hefner creates Playboy magazine aimed at men like him who sought a life more liberating than the expected job to wife to kids to grave pipeline. The first issue of Playboy included an article warning men of gold digging women. It was a no-holds bard attack on the whole concept of alimony and secondarily on money hungry women in general entitled Miss Gold Digger of 1953.

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