Men Who Hate Women

From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

De: Laura Bates

Narrado por: Tanya Eby

Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.

Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote this book as someone who has been the target of many hate-fueled misogynistic attacks online. 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 went undercover into the corners of the internet, she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon women.

In the book, Bates explores:

• Extreme communities like incels, pick-up artists, MGTOW, Men's Rights Activists and more
• The hateful, toxic rhetoric used by these groups
• How this movement connects to other extremist movements like white supremacy
• Where this ideology shows up in our everyday lives in mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government

©2020, 2021 Laura Bates (P)2022 Tantor

Vitally Important

This was a hard book to listen to only for its brutal honesty and revealing nature of the vial things being bounced around on line and manifesting in our day-to-day lives. A must-read for awareness and shifting the conversation forward.

Good look at the background issues

This book does a good job of looking into the issues that men can be swept up into. As a man who grew up gaming and on the internet a lot of this wasn’t a surprise this affects men & women on the internet daily. I think the author does mean to pull people away from the manosphere and other areas, but I still always got the feeling she was bashing men at times. Not intentionally though just because that bad side is so bad. I want to see us pull away from these stupid women hating ways on the internet, but this book is more for people on our side and not people who are on the border to falling in IMO. Worth a read definitely

exceptional information

this was so well researched and eye opening. share this with all of your friends.

Informative & Hopeful

I was shocked by the statistics and anecdotes, but Bates wrapped up her work with some advice and instances of positive change. The only reason I’m not giving it 5 stars is because the audiobook version doesn’t provide sources and citations, which, I understand, as it’s an audiobook. But I still feel they should be provided so we, as readers, can further our critical thinking and analysis of this global phenomenon.

MUST READ

Most essential book for women, mothers of boys, and young men, this year. Please share with everyone you know

Important information

Bates does not sugar coat the situation. It’s important for us to understand how these groups are increasing in size and the impact their hatred of women has on society.

Informational

Educational eye opener with lots of info for many ages in an orderly format.

Important

Really important topic to understand what feminism is and isn’t, and how a prolific misunderstanding of it is threatening women today and tomorrow.

My only complaint is that I didn’t feel that the audio book narrator had the appropriate tone and infliction. It bothered me so much at first I almost bailed on the book. But I’m glad I stuck it out and eventually got used to it.

So so important

This book captures so many important concepts, the chapters are well organized and the information is brutal. I appreciated the chapter men who don’t know they hate women, I thought it was particularly impactful growing up with men in the 2000s. I have recommended this book to all my friends who date men because I think it captures a lot about how toxic men are in relationships.

Hard Truths Needed to be Heard

I'm so thankful for the strong intelligent women educating those of us who were raised & groomed to be beaten down and enslaved by christofacist men.