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ALT Men Who Hate Women book by Laura Bates

ALT pink highlight from location 110 of the book: This is not just about women and girls. It is also a battle to protect the boys who are lost, who fall through the cracks of our society’s stereotypes and straight into the arms of the communities ready to recruit them, greedy to indoctrinate them with fears of threats to their manhood, their livelihood, their country.

ALT yellow highlight from location 217 of the book: The incel community is the most violent corner of the so-called manosphere. It is a community devoted to violent hatred of women. A community that actively recruits members who might have very real problems and vulnerabilities and tells them that women are the cause of all their woes. A community in whose name over one hundred people, mostly women, have been murdered or injured in the past ten years. And it’s a community you have probably never even heard of.

ALT yellow highlight from location 1080 of the book: We are talking about an industry that exploits men’s worst fears, preys on their vulnerabilities, and literally trains them in harassment, stalking, and even sexual assault. Targeting shy or romantically unsuccessful men as their disciples, so-called pickup gurus offer exhaustive, specific instructions for the entire span of a sexual encounter, from the approach to the minutiae of the conversation to the physical act of having sex.