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Men Who Hate Women
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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A groundbreaking book that pulls back the curtain on the terrorist movement no one is talking about Women's rights activist Laura Bates has been the target of many misogynistic attacks online: from hate-fueled Twitter rants to vivid descriptions of her own rape and even death threats. At first, the vitriol seemed to be the work of a small handful of individual men... but over time, the volume and consistency of the attacks hinted at something bigger and more ominous. As Bates followed the thread of online misogyny farther into the corners of the internet, the spiral of hateful and toxic rhetoric deepened until she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon womenthe terrorism no one is talking about. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups extending from Men's Rights Activists to trolls and the incel movement. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, including white nationalism, 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 follows 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, Bates provides the first comprehensive look at this under-the-radar phenomenon, including eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back. By turns fascinating and horrifying, Men Who Hate Women is a broad, unflinching account of the deep current of loathing toward women and anti-feminism that underpins our society and is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who believes in equality for women. "Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change."Sunday Times
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Such an important read. I like that it is written by a UK author, so she looks throughout the world at this issue. Though unfortunately a lot of this has the US as ground zero. It is things I knew but didn't "KNOW"
Both enraging and informative.
First book for #NFNovember @Bookwormjillk

Bookwormjillk Yikes 😳 Will have to add this to my TBR. 2mo
DogMomIrene Given some of the stats I‘m seeing about gender gaps in the US election, I may need to read this sooner rather than later. 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @DogMomIrene I am glad I read it before today. I don't know if I could get through it after last night. American men really, really hate women 2mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Incels.

Laura Bates

BkClubCare 😢 2mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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At its simplest the argument goes like this: if women‘s sexual autonomy has given them wicked & tyrannical control over men‘s lives, then women‘s liberation is at the root of all male suffering. Therefore, the obvious remedy is to remove women‘s freedom and independence and to use specifically sexual means (like rape & sexual slavery) to do so. In other words, the problem is not women having sex but women having the choice of whom to have sex with

DogMomIrene Whoa! You have my attention with thus quote. Definitely will need to read this one. 2mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @DogMomIrene it is a real doosey of a book. Broken up into chapters incels, players, and some other very internet heavy groups of men who basically do not see women as humans. She is a British author so it has a global look (though have to say most of it is US centric) 2mo
DogMomIrene @ChaoticMissAdventures sounds so good! Frustrating and disturbing but that‘s okay. 2mo
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“It is not women, or even feminists, who have limited, frustrated, diminished, hurt, and damaged men but masculinity itself or, rather, our society‘s constricting, toxic, self-defeating version of what it means to perform being a man. Yet every time anybody tries to make progress in tackling this particular version of masculinity, the MRM rises up as a united voice to condemn and undermine the attempt.”
Laura Bates

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Feeling very lucky since I have already started both!

#Bookspin - Men Who Hate Women part of my #NFNovember with @Bookwormjillk
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#DoubleSpin is my #RandomClassic which I will be completing this month! with @thearomaofbooks

Bookwormjillk That‘s always a bonus! I‘m looking forward to your review. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2mo
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TrishB
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Hibernation for now. Work and other things very stressful and I just can‘t read about these men anymore who‘s only thoughts in life are to rape and murder women 🥲 you have to be in a very good place to read this. Like being bludgeoned with hate.

GingerAntics Oh my god I don‘t think I could read that ever. I may never leave my house again. 3y
DrexEdit 😳 you are braver than I am! 3y
TrishB @GingerAntics @DrexEdit it‘s very hard Work 😞😞 3y
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Tamra Yikes, no thanks. Hang in there with adulting. 3y
MicheleinPhilly Ugh. No. 3y
Nute I don‘t think that I want to know all of this truth!😳 3y
Deblovestoread This book was on my #NewYearWhoDis list but I‘ve been reluctant to pick it up. Now, I know why. 3y
sarahbarnes Ugh. 😞 3y
merelybookish Yikes. As if the news weren't brutal enough. 😣 3y
TrishB @Tamra @MicheleinPhilly @Nute @Kdgordon88 @sarahbarnes @merelybookish sometimes you have to go with the self protection! 3y
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A few minor criticisms: 1) It's a bit repetitive, 2) Domestic violence is not terrorism. It is disgusting, appalling, cowardly, and unacceptable. But it is not terrorism just because it is deeply upsetting. 3) She only dedicated one sentence to this, but she believes that the gender sections of toy stores should be eliminated. It's this type of nonsense that makes people hate liberals.

Other than that, this book is important and disturbing.

keithmalek I would put this somewhere between a So-So and a Pick. 3y
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I'm 43, and I can't name even one. Nor do I want to.

Suet624 So depressing. 3y
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Whoops. 😂

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JenniferEgnor This book and its author were referenced in the book I just read. 3y
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Suet624 Frightening 3y
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🤣🤣

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(Continued)...consider sexual violence.

ScrappyMags 🙌🏼 💯 and this needs to CHANGE 3y
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#TheMenWhoHateWomen is a terrifying must-read. Especially the first chapter * Men who kill Women * clearly proves how dangerous these groups have become and how even terrorist acts are committed by them.

#LauraBates #NonFiction

TrishB I‘ve had this one a while but know it‘s going to make me mad and sad. 3y
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Terrifying but an important book!