Ctrl Hate Delete: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It by Cécile Simmons
A timely exploration of online male supremacy by @cecilesimmons.bsky.social
Thorough research and clear analysis paint a troubling picture.
Part 2 brings hope for fighting back and finding ways forward.
An unfortunately necessary book.
#books 💙📚💡
Fantastic extract from @cecilesimmons.bsky.social new book CTRL HATE DELETE in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Very much looking forward to this event at The Gilded Acorn on 10 April. Details below:
Looking forward to this talk at @bookhaus.bsky.social alongside the excellent Lois Shearing and @finnfox.bsky.social about the far-right, male supremacy and women's roles in these ideologies.
As with many things, the answer to why people are doing a silly thing is that someone else is making a lot of money off it www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fa...
But a world in which men no longer read leaves everyone impoverished, and men more vulnerable to online rabbit holes.
Not entirely convinced that men don't have good stories to read or don't recognise themselves in existing literature. After all, the whole point of reading is to expand the reach of one's understanding and experience.
I'm not one for moral panics about the decline of men, but women accounting for 80% book sales should give us pause for thought. Men looking for a way to make sense of the world are increasingly turning to Joe Rogan.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
Important piece by @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social and @rachelschreiber.bsky.social on our societies' tolerance for antisemitic misogynistic tropes and how Jewish women have become "soft targets" in authoritarian white supremacist agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/o...
With the shutdown of research tools and legal threats to research organisations, the pre-election period has already had a chilling effect on those trying to document online harms. Doing the job is becoming increasingly difficult.
Brian Deer is the reason we know Andrew Wakefield is a complete charlatan. His dogged investigatory work, over the course of years, helped bring the vaccines-autism myth—and how much Wakefield was paid to invent it—to light.
He's just as critical of Bobby's grift.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Thank you for including me in this list of brilliant and dedicated colleagues who are working to make our digital landscape a little bit saner.
The problem is this authora & many others don't realise that you cannot compare X to Twitter, X to Bsky. When I log into X I am presented with hate speech, terrorist content, gore, mass shooter videos. Bsky and its community is not an echo chamber for refusing to accept this content in our feeds.
Amazing show but also...should be a slogan for disinfo researchers.
The Reeves book shows that zero sum thinking eventually catches up with those who claim we should avoid it. "Addressing men's issues doesn't mean taking away from the fight for gender equality...but let's tone down that sexism talk lest it alienates men." It is the scarcity mindset at work.
The contemporary obsession with witchcraft seems proportionate to our political powerlessness. In 1968, witches took on Wall Street. Now we're paying Etsy witches to curse Musk. I get there is such a thing as aesthetics but we're going to need better than that.
www.wired.com/story/viral-...
These descriptions are so chilling:
“An increased interest in pursuing the ideal masculine appearance by going to the gym and the creation of new male-dominated social activities like the infamous exclusive poker nights had seemed innocent” but now 1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
