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"Men Can't Be Men Anymore"

The root of the manosphere is hatred of women. It's mysogany. Hatred of women. Not anything else. Not men being dealt a bad hand. How can men be men without hating women. This is a link from the…

r/Stoicismcomment3/24/2026
The "Manosphere"

The "Manosphere" — Last night my wife and I watched the new Netflix documentary on the Manosphere. It was entertaining and informative, but also quite sad. My first reaction, honestly, was that with the exception of th…

r/Stoicismpost3/14/2026
Andrew and Tristan Tate visit Asia

Andrew and Tristan Tate visit Asia — Eww, not the western manosphere spreading their germs in Asia 🤮. Not surprised his fans in Hong Kong are all the LBH passport bros, locals would laugh his ass back home. While Asia gets more progress…

r/AsianAmericanpost3/14/2026
"Men Can't Be Men Anymore"

"Men Can't Be Men Anymore" — A week ago, I [posted about the Louis Theroux documentary on the “Manosphere,”](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/1rtveyg/the_manosphere/) noting my surprise at the scale of the phenomenon, u…

r/Stoicismpost3/23/2026
N Dad wants to divorce my mom after 30+ years because she hasn’t slept with him the week after her mom died

N Dad wants to divorce my mom after 30+ years because she hasn’t slept with him the week after her mom died — Marked NSFW just to be safe. TW for rape, physical abuse, verbal abuse, even if I don’t go into much detail. Let me know if I marked or did anything wrong! I don’t usually use Reddit. I’m (31F) unfor…

r/raisedbynarcissistspost4/10/2026
How can I change for the better?

How can I change for the better? — Warning: massive essay (life story) incoming. My profile should be open, so you could maybe browse what I’ve said earlier. They can be a little too much, and I can be judgmental sometimes. Some posts …

r/DecidingToBeBetterpost4/12/2026
Daily sticky thread for rants, raves, celebrations, advice and more! New? Start here!

>This is definitely a red flag, and the girls thing is weird too in that context. I understand why it's problematic but I don't know if it's "definitely a red flag". It's possible he just picked it u…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/4/2026
Is "good on paper" a thing for guys our age?

It's also worth noting that men are often specifically pressured to *suppress* emotions. That whole toxic "alpha-male" manosphere culture says that men who are in touch with their feelings, who allow…

r/datingoverthirtycomment2/20/2026
how to be "chill" in early stages of dating?

He prob had a dozen girls on go (& guys ) and manipulated them all . They read toxic manosphere blogs on ‘game’ etc

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment3/6/2026
Are Asian men at a disadvantage in dating in the US?

Big lesson I can say is to also read the room and go with the flow of that. Looks do play a part, but definitely the more subtle cues will do a LOT. Things like how you're dressed does definitely pl…

r/AsianMasculinitycomment3/9/2026
Her body😫

And thank you as well for sharing! I would get turned off by misogyny... It seems I kept getting these manosphere red pill men.... But they would go that route whenever they felt like I wasn't pleased…

r/BreakUpscomment3/9/2026
Tips for attracting left-leaning men?

A man who doesn't support feminism is by definition NOT left leaning. At best they are performing liberalism because they know it's generally viewed as more acceptable or benefits them. The "issues" …

r/datingoverfortycomment3/11/2026
My (19f) boyfriend (19m) keeps telling me I’m at high risk of diabetes. How do I address this?

What podcasts does he listen to? This sounds like some manosphere bs.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/12/2026
r/relationship_advicecomment3/14/2026
My boyfriend (31M) is upset I prioritize money and don’t want kids, even though I (24F) told him this from the start

A lot of men sincerely believe that women are confused or don't know what they want. Hence when you reject them they persist. And eventually "giving him a chance" doesn't help that bias. So in his br…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/14/2026
The "Manosphere"

Does the documentary explore how and why the manosphere arose? From what I've noticed with social and political stuff, for every action there is a more or less equal and opposite reaction. Maybe they'…

r/Stoicismcomment3/14/2026
The "Manosphere"

I think community and third spaces are extremely lacking. I guess manosphere sounds singular. Warrior sounds singular too. Anyone with a microphone can create little armies of men and radicalize them …

r/Stoicismcomment3/14/2026
The "Manosphere"

Responding partially to your response and partially to the OP. I've been concerned with this manosphere garbage since I accidentally stumbled onto it online six or seven years ago. My initial response…

r/Stoicismcomment3/14/2026
The "Manosphere"

I've been working my way through reading a lot about the late Roman and post-Roman world. I was struck by the way at least the learned classes of the Roman world prioritized character and how it appe…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

I’ve been on this subreddit for a couple of years and I recall more than 1 mother coming in here to reality check her own impressions about Stoicism because her 14 year old boy that she thought was an…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

The manosphere functions as a high-decibel simulation of misaligned masculine signals. Project Grounding Rod identifies multimillionaire influencers as volatility traps for the biological vessel. Thes…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

If they part of the “manosphere” most likely they are: covid and vacc deniers, misogynistic, andrew tate lovers, money obsessed, everything is the “lefts” fault and conspiracy nuts. Mind you i love a …

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

You’re wrong about absent or abusive fathers. I narrowly escaped this toxic shit back when red pill was in its infancy. My dad is awesome. My dad was present. I just didn’t feel that he understood m…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

Mark Manson did a lot to pull a lot of men out of the Manosphere for last generation of men. There are others doing the same for this generation like Scott Galloway and Jimmy Carr. Ronny Chieng has a …

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

I've been writing about this recently as well. My main post was about the lack of a sense of belonging - and what fills those voids for people. My take was that the manosphere is less about bad men an…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
Men having rigid body type preferences

He was probably taught to make comments like that on one of those misogynistic manosphere podcasts about how to control women or something.

r/datingoverfortycomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

While I agree that the young men who follow these "manosphere influencers" are sharing a common wound, I disagree that this wound is fatherlessness. It is actually loneliness and not having any access…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

I think you're correct, if a bit pessimistic. The grievances are real, issues like men underperforming in schools is real but they need to treated as their own problems rather than a footnote to women…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

Well said, weps. The 'manosphere' is mostly a grift I feel. With most men finding worth in their careers in previous generations, and with current generations being disenfranchised from gainful employ…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

this is such a weird argument, it’s basically just manosphere talking points with the word “society” swapped in so it doesn’t sound as obviously misogynistic lol. you’re talking about the problems m…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

Oh hey look. DARVO. Front and center. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO) Interesting how you not only hit all the keynotes you missed the entire point of the …

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

you’re arguing against something I didn’t say. women having social spaces isn’t the same thing as an ideological grievance movement like the manosphere, and the fact that you think the two are compa…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

i dont disagree but i think that we need an agnostic system. we cant correct course and then continue "correcting" and be mad that we're now discussing whether we have overcorrected. not saying you ar…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

you're more than welcome to restart the entire conversation from here if you can actually engage with what i said instead of Darvo'ing the conversation while accusing me of being biased and misogynist…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

I didn’t call you a misogynist, I said your talking points were because they are. and you can keep repeating DARVO all you want, the goalpost won’t be moved. back to the point—calling a few feminist…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

It is low hanging infotainment fruit, Theroux is selling to a mainstream audience as much as the “influencers” are selling to social media trends. A really solid area to look into is Divorce Statisti…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
My boyfriend blew our savings. (F32) (M34)

I just watched Louis Theroux's documentary about the manosphere and the influencers pushing dodgy investment sites. Was it one of those?

r/relationship_advicecomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

dismissal is the dangerous part. the stats can be true on both sides but when one feeds the other and no one see's eye to eye on how to approach even the topic nothing ever gets solved. As an example…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

I think we agree more than disagree. The agnostic system is correct. A truly just system would apply its rules evenly for everyone or it runs the risk of being an unjust system. I wonder where the tur…

r/Stoicismcomment3/15/2026
The "Manosphere"

The Andrew Tate variety never read Epictetus Discourse 1.15 titled “what philosophy promises”. Or Musonius Rufus’ lecture 3 titled “that women too should study philosophy”. Those 2 pages worth of te…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
My (M38) wife (F34) has been very quiet since a conversation we had of why I love her. Confused about her silence.

Dude, get off the manosphere and actually talk to the real women in your life. Your brain is rotted, this comment pathetic.

r/relationship_advicecomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

i think to some degree you have to admit the feminist crowd are partially right just as much as the manosphere side is. Men create problem for women and women for men. Neither side wants to give grace…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

"The mystery is the size and dedication of the audience." They offer community to guys who aren't successful with women and/or don't have a group where they can talk about those problems. That's the …

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

You're not wrong, but I think you need to be cautious with the generalizations. There's a lot of weird nuance between the groups inside the manosphere. It covers everything from guys looking to do bet…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

I think the issue they're partially getting at is that men do have problems and some elements of the manosphere are trying to fix that. By saying it's all just BS or grift it "invalidates" the underly…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

Yes but if he was asked "how do I do better?" he'd have an answer. (Sarcastic thought it might have been.) That's what the manosphere is doing. They're giving answers while other people are pointin…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

"But if men stop being entitled, it all stops." This is such a high level statement that I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about and I worry that it becomes a type of gospel that discourages cont…

r/Stoicismcomment3/16/2026
The "Manosphere"

The thing is these manosphere influencers are not at all empathetic. They're just feeding into an egotistical narrative. Instead of saying "hey I know you feel weak and I am with you man. Let's work t…

r/Stoicismcomment3/17/2026
The "Manosphere"

I have a great father and granddad, they taught me a lot about life, love and passion. I know my brothers and I were raised well, to the best of their ability they tried. One proof might be that none …

r/Stoicismcomment3/17/2026
I was the husband who didn't do enough. Sharing my perspective

There is so much rhetoric online about men and women that it makes it almost more confusing when your divorce process doesn’t match. It compels us to overexplain. In my own marriage, that rhetoric bec…

r/Divorcecomment3/17/2026
The "Manosphere"

Oh man totally agree! Was just wondering what that would mean for ourselves. I had a talk with my friend about the documentary and many know the "manfluencers" but don't know the real harm they actual…

r/Stoicismcomment3/17/2026
The "Manosphere"

I think the unfortunate piece of this that is the foundation for the manosphere is just that they are almost all grifting and doing so with that intent. I've watched plenty of manosphere content from …

r/Stoicismcomment3/17/2026
The "Manosphere"

The doc clearly edited the speakers and narratives to make the "Manosphere" look really bad and stupid. There are plenty of normal and healthy "Manosphere" creators on youtube and social media.

r/Stoicismcomment3/17/2026
Girlfriend(26F) of 3 months slapped me(32M) in the balls for a third time

Assuming one gender is absolutely infallible and judging their actions based on their gender and instead of them as actual real people is textbook sexism. I'd advise you to maybe go outside of your e…

r/relationship_advicecomment3/18/2026
The "Manosphere"

I can’t help but have this simple quote come to the forefront of my mind. “When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, bu…

r/Stoicismcomment3/18/2026