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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All | Laura Bates
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An explosive book examining the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women. In this groundbreaking investigation, women's rights activist Laura Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups extending from Men's Rights Activists and Pick Up Artists to Men Going Their Own Way, trolls, and the incel movement, in the name of which some men have committed terrorist acts. Drawing parallels with other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows what attracts men to the movement, how it grooms and radicalizes boys, how it operates, and what can be done to stop it. Most urgently of all, she traces the pathways this extreme ideology has taken from the darkest corners of the internet to emerge covertly in our mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government. Going undercover on and offline, Laura provides the first comprehensive look at this under-the-radar phenomenon, including fascinating interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.
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JaneyWaneyB
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This is a powerful book that offers such clarity on issues we should all be aware of & how the minority are influencing the majority filling our society with a hate rhetoric. Before starting this book I thought I knew something of incels & misogyny, nope! I knew nothing. Bates has researched her book so thoroughly with no stone left unturned & she is shining a bright spot light that we must all look at NOW!

#Feminism #EndMisogyny #PowerfulReads

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JaneyWaneyB
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As someone who works in education and deals directly with Safeguarding concerns and behaviour incidents Chapter 9 of Laura Bates' book has thoroughly slapped me in the face and woke me up!

#Feminism #Research #TheVoiceOfToday #TodaysIssues #Safeguarding #Radicalisation #Extremism #SocialMedia #Misogyny #Truth

kspenmoll Great post! So true - I am in a HS. 2y
JaneyWaneyB @kspenmoll I have just finished the book and the last two chapters were eye opening....frankly I got slapped in the face by what Bates had discovered through her research and talking to young people. Those two chapters at least are a must read for teachers...especially male teachers 2y
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The_Book_Ninja
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I‘m now officially a man who hates men. More precisely, as the final chapter is titled, I‘m a man who hates men who hate women. The other chapters cover all of the unsavoury flavours of misogynists from online Incels up to their offline, male supremacist heroes like Piers Morgan, Trump and Johnson. Along the way we meet MGTOWs and Pick Up Artists. Fascinating and depressing in equal turns. Full of verifiable facts. Need something light to read now

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Cazxxx
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I can‘t say I enjoyed this book but it‘s essential reading for everyone. So many interesting topics and statistics which I didn‘t know about. I was angry and upset pretty much from start to finish but isn‘t that the point of books like this? If we don‘t highlight the problem how can we tackle it?
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books_and_tea That's such a good point you made! So true:).! 3y
TrishB Getting myself ready to read. She came to give a session at the Uni where I work (pre pandemic obvs) and was really good. 3y
Cazxxx @TrishB oh really? That must‘ve been really interesting. She certainly knows her subject 3y
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IuliaC Oh my! 3y
readingjedi That's beyond gross 😡 3y
Lauram Horrifying 3y
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books_and_tea Wow!😡 3y
TrishB And now I have to go and read the book to make me a bit more angry 😡 3y
Cazxxx @TrishB I‘m only one chapter in and it has me so angry already 3y
Cazxxx @Lauram awful 😞 3y
Cazxxx @books_and_tea only one chapter in and so angry 😡 3y
Cazxxx @readingjedi absolutely disgusting 3y
Cazxxx @IuliaC so disgusting 😡 3y
books_and_tea @Cazxxx Ugh, I totally believe that! 3y
Reggie Yikes! 3y
TrishB I‘ve had the book on my kindle for a while, so may have to read soon! 3y
Cazxxx @Reggie awful! 3y
Cazxxx @TrishB it is good but hard going 3y
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I didn‘t know too much about incels before reading this book and I must say it‘s absolutely terrifying the way these men think