Summary

The “femosphere,” a growing online space for women, mirrors the misogynistic “manosphere” with toxic ideologies, including anti-gender equality views and strategies to “conquer” men.

The term describes communities like Female Dating Strategy and “dark feminine” influencers who reject liberal feminism, advocating traditional gender roles as empowering.

“Femcel” influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism.

Critics warn these spaces mix conservative and feminist ideas, creating “anti-feminist feminism” that appeals to those disillusioned with mainstream feminism.

While less linked to violence than the manosphere, researchers caution against its potential for radicalization and harm.

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In the femosphere, as in the manosphere, there’s an overarching belief that life is about survival of the fittest, that men will always hurt women and that will never change, so strategies are needed to conquer the opposite gender.

I’m not a massive fan of the guy they nailed to a tree 2000 years ago for saying maybe people should be nice to each other once in a while, but the violent reaction to that suggestion no longer surprises me.

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32 points

Look we just need to move around small bits of green paper and everything will be fine.

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11 points

And then the Vogons show up…

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8 points

Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee

Apologies for misspellings. That’s from memory.

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3 points

It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

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To be fair, he also suggested if they worshipped other gods, they’d be punished in hell for it. That’s why I’m not a massive fan. But I like the ‘be nice to people’ part.

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Jesus or God did?

Two very different ideologies.

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That guy is a made up story. No more, no less.

Edit: oh my, so much salt. Just keep downvoting me if it makes you cope better with the facts. It’s OK.

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42 points

That’s not really my point.

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Lol til “cope” = “being bored by a boring and irrelevant topic”

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0 points

What an insufferable way to be. No one honestly cares either way

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14 points

Well that certainly isn’t true.

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What an insufferable way to be.

Well, it’s more just not the appropriate place and kind of missed the point entirely.

No one honestly cares either way

Unfortunately this is very much not the case and that’s a big chunk of the problem. There’s groups out there that really really care (one way or another) and are more than happy to murder you and anyone else who doesn’t all while telling themselves what great people they are.

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