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Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Behind the Bastards

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The Three Wolf Moonshirt

In 1947 Rudolph Shankle an animal behavioralist published a paper titled Expressions Studies on Wolves. He coined the term alpha to describe social relationships he observed between captive wolves in Switzerland Zoo Basil. Now okay it's interesting that me this forms so much of the basis of like men's rights ideology when Shankle's protect is saying: There's a top man and a top women and there's no issues of status between them they're dominant. You know there's two alphas. Tragic. See and we made fun of like we mocked the furries in the early aughts. We mocked the people who were brave enough to wear a three wolf moonshirt. When they were like the

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