Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates
Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates
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Men Who Hate Women
From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

Author: Laura Bates

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

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


About Laura Bates

Laura Bates is an English professor at Indiana State University, where she has taught courses on Shakespeare for the past 15 years to students on campus and in prison. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at Indiana State University, from Children's Literature to World Literature, Shakespeare, and Crime and Punishment. With a PhD (University of Chicago, 1998) in Comparative Literature, her academic training involved classic world literature alongside contemporary texts and theory. Her work has been featured in national media, including MSNBC's Lock Up. Laura lives in Indiana.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on August 22, 2023

This was a painful read but a necessary one.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 08, 2020

This is such a depressing book that I just didn’t want to review it because that would make me have to think about the disgusting creeps that Laura Bates writes about. But life is not always spring sunshine and little lambs gamboling in the fields. Some nasty things have to be done, so, onward. THE M......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on March 06, 2021

Why trying to become a better human, fit, smart, and thereby more attractive, when it´s so much easier to participate in murderous anonymous hate troll slutshaming victim blaming mobs. And it doesn´t end there, dozens of people have died because incels think that alphas and Stacies, even Beckies, hav......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on October 05, 2020

But I am interested in the men in between. The boys who fall through the cracks. The ‘good’ men who feel scared. The ones who went looking for help, because they felt frightened or sad or lonely, and haven’t been able to disentangle themselves. The ones who just haven’t heard about any of this ye......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 09, 2022

An important book about a horrifying topic we need to talk about. In Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates discusses the roots of misogyny and how they manifest in online communities such as incels, pickup artists, trolls, and more. She does a great job of describing the online radicalization process of v......more