I am a novelist, but my novels are rooted in reality rather than fantasy. Recently, while researching my latest book, a feminist crime thriller, I went down a dark rabbit hole. I found myself trawling through the online ecosystem known as the “Manosphere”: a web of forums, podcasts, YouTube channels, and self-styled gurus who peddle varying degrees of misogyny under different banners.
There are the “incels,” men who call themselves involuntary celibates and explain their unhappiness with women as evidence of female corruption. There are the MGTOWs, Men Going Their Own Way, who claim to have rejected women entirely in favour of a supposed self-sufficient life, but who somehow cannot stop talking about women’s supposed evils.
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