by Oui
Sun Apr 20th, 2025 at 01:19:08 PM EST
Masculinity What Putin Wrought, Trump supporters and the Manosphere through misogyny. A strong ace for his political success.
Lessons from my maternal grandmother ... sanctimonious behaviour.
Someone described as sanctimonious behaves as though they are morally superior to others. Language or behaviour that suggests the same kind of moral superiority can also be described as sanctimonious.
Another form compared to Western hypocrisy.
Wow ... the arrogant abuse of his position to enter the Vatican ...
US Vice President JD Vance meets w Meloni in Rome and visits the Vatican | Sky News |
Tony Blair too was a "convert." Not too pleased ... Videla - Pinochet - Salazar - Franco all claim to belong to the "universal" church but not acting according to the teachings of Jesus. I always considered the "church" a building, in Trump's term some real estate for profit to be made.
Geez the crazies abound in modern times ... sliding back assward. 😡
"Inspirational" level of influencers ... conceited taking the easy route ... no responsibility for consequences ...
'There were no warning signs': what happens when your partner falls into the `manosphere'? | The Guardian Opinion |
More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckage
Samantha thought of her partner as the most progressive man she had ever had a relationship with. Her Swedish boyfriend seemed, to her, more feminist than many British men she had dated.
"I never had to ask him to clear up," she says. "All our labour was shared. He had done therapy. He was happy to talk about his emotions."
When they broke up, however, Samantha, who is in her 30s and based in Sheffield, saw a very different side to him. She recalls going to his flat to collect her belongings. "I got into a debate with him," she says. "It became clear his beliefs had become centred around the idea that men are more sexual than women, and men and women can't be friends.
"He said: 'Now we are not together, I don't need to agree with everything you say.'"
He told her he had become involved during the pandemic in what he described as a men's mental health group. Samantha has since discovered the group was influenced by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who has expressed controversial views about women, and a far-right Swedish influencer whom her ex-boyfriend had appeared with in photos on social media. "It's that strand of the manosphere that is focused on self-help and spirituality," she says. "The whole time we were together, there were no warning signs."
Radicalization
Nigel Bromage, who was involved in far-right groups for two decades, warns that the charity is seeing a "crossover" between those involved in the manosphere and the wider far right.
"Over the last few years, the rhetoric of the manosphere has increasingly leaked out of isolated forums on to mainstream platforms," says Anki Deo, Hope Not Hate's senior policy officer. "It has been taken up by influencers with a much wider audience and is no longer just a `dark corner of the internet'."
Rachel, who is in her 30s and lives in London, met her partner on the popular dating app Hinge, and was struck by his generosity. He insisted on buying her gifts and giving her cash to spend. She thought her now ex-partner was a "normal, decent guy". But as the relationship progressed, she began to feel uneasy as he forced more gifts on her. Four months into the relationship, she began to realise his political views were profoundly different from her own.
"I was talking about the gay community. He got aggressive with me," Rachel recalls. "He was super homophobic - I didn't know until then."
Reproducing Misogyny: Cultural Adaptations and Radicalization in the Indian and Malayali Manosphere
Men tapping into opportunities of modernity 😖
London and sickening violence on women
Mapping the Ideological Landscape of Extreme Misogyny | ICCT |
Despite the growing complexity of the online misogynist landscape and important efforts to study some misogynist groups through singular case studies, scholars have a limited understanding of the distinctions between the various relevant misogynist communities in terms of their rhetorical, operational, and social facets. The current research aims to address this gap by employing a multi-layered analytical framework of different misogynist communities. We begin with a comprehensive literature review conceptualising extreme misogyny with an overview of the current misogynist spaces and ideological narratives. Consequently, we sample the online ecosystem of extreme misogyny both within and across these communities while utilising a multi-categorical tool in order to identify the discursive, organisational, and operational distinctions between various misogynist communities. Our findings reflect substantial differences between the various misogynist communities in terms of their legitimacy to violence, the conceptualisation of their adversaries, ideological vision's time orientation, and overall operational discourse.
Jordan Peterson didn't escape our attention @EuroTrib some years ago ... different time ... a diary with 7 recommends. 😊
Jordan Peterson, Social Media and Rise of Alt-right | 13 Nov. 2018 |
I'll have to agree with generic on this one.
"psychological background"
No, Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor. From what I have read, that is where his professional knowledge and experience lies.
Jordan Peterson has political issues with Marxism, totalitarianism and the genocidal deaths of millions under Communist regimes in the 20th century Soviet Union and China. Apparently he has come to the conclusion left is dangerous and right is OK. What makes a person tick to transform into a bloody killer. Has Peterson written about the Vietnam War, Cambodia intervention, Central and South America, Abu Ghraib and Iraq, Libya and Syrian intervention? I would place Peterson in the realm of Bernard-Henri Levy.
Peterson is a psychobabbler using social media to gain notoriety, and not through his peers, on his favorite topic of today: the deplorables of Donald Trump.
Aspen Institute: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars | 27 June 2018 |
Planned visit to University of Amsterdam, an advice to the academy ...
Some eighty UvA employees and a number of student organizations want Room for Discussion to invite an extra guest for her episode with the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson next Wednesday. 'An extra guest can counteract Peterson's conservative, patriarchal, anti-feminist, anti-climate-scientific,' politically incorrect 'worldview.'
Jordan Peterson reacts on his website ...
The rise of YouTube's reactionary right by Ezra Klein | Vox - 24 Sept. 2018 |
How demographic change and YouTube's algorithms are building a new right.
For over a decade I have written about the complexity of the Alt-Right movement.
Christian Zionists Collude with Alt-right Trump | 28 Dec. 2017 |
The rise of the alt-right in Western politics due to Middle-East wars [neocon policy] and the refugee crisis in its aftermath. Also the effects of Anglo-American banking, financial institutions, off-shore deposits, stock market, corporate might in capitals and political parties causing wealth accumulation by the 0.1%.
The rich getting richer, turning the dials of tax reform, promising trickle-down cents for the working majority. Instead inequality is on the rise in the last 50 years and people's revolutions are managed for regime change in the mirror of American capitalism while undermining labor rights. Welcome to the new year 2018, more of the same?
Attacking church sermons on Christmas Day ....
[Note: Trump's appreciation for support to get elected was rewarded with his gift of Jerusalem to the "Jewish" State of Israel]
The Lernaean Hydra of the Alt- and Extreme Rightwing groups. Alt-Right | EuroTrib Archive |
The Emergency is Here (Part 2) | The Ezra Klein Show |
ADDENDUM
Such a statement never loses relevance in time … 😊
