Show Notes
What do femcels, tradwives, and "dark feminine" dating coaches have in common? The pink-pill pipeline of antifeminist feminisms. Cristen unpacks the rise of the femosphere, aka womanosphere – a digital ecosystem of looksmaxxers, female dating strategists, TERFs and trads selling women warped visions of empowerment rooted in biological destiny, gender essentialism and divine femininity. But is the femosphere itself also getting misinterpreted as a far-left phenomenon of radicalized misandrists?
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