Louis Theroux, the reporter who helped unmask the crimes of Jimmy Savile, managed to convince members of the “manosphere” realm of influencers to let him into their lives, and what he uncovered was a legion of hate fueled by emotional neglect in their early years as father figures hit the horizon.Irish Times writer Kathy Sheridan said she watched Theroux’s “Inside the Manosphere” documentary, wherein he deconstructs the “vacuous, vainglorious” rich scam artists with their Lamborghinis, desperately farming every click they can with abuse and spectacle. “Watch again and the soulless, ignorant young men become savagely wounded children with podcasts, millions of social media followers and a guru in the shape of the alleged rapist and sex trafficker, Andrew Tate,” said Sheridan, who describes them scratching for the content to get clicks to lure more lonely, insecure boys into a squalid world of porn, crypto and Ponzi schemes that fund the influencers’ toys, which serve to lure in even more lonely boys.”As an experiment, Theroux dropped $500 in one influencer’s investment project, only to find all but roughly $150 of it gone a few days later. The word “misogyny” plays deep into the documentary, considering how thoroughly the manosphere despises women in their endless rants. Theroux focuses on a handful of young men who’ve made performative misogyny their path to fame.In Marbella, Theroux spends time with Harrison Sullivan, the son of an English rugby international and a livestreamer who turns every interaction he has in Spain into a moment to be monetized. He teaches ‘boys to be proper boys … not these soyboy gimps,’ and he describes a female housemate as his ‘dishwasher’ only for his braggadocio to evaporate before the cameras when his mom visits.Then it’s on to Florida to meet Myron Gaines, a broadcaster and author of the self-help book Why Women Deserve Less. Gaines believes in one-way monogamy, where he gets to play around while his partner must stay faithful — all while denying his misogyny. “Misogyny would be the hatred of women. I love women and I understand them,” claims Gaines.It’s not the first conversation where Theroux’ prodding uncovers inconsistency and some worried looks. Another target – Harrison Sullivan aka HSTikkyTokky – proudly admits that he gets a cut of OnlyFans ‘models’ earnings, which Sheridan said was “once known as pimping.” He also uses them for sex, all while expressing disgust for how they make their money.When confronted about his homophobic and anti-Semitic rants, Sullivan denies it all, claiming he’s only “clip farming.”“Women offer themselves up to be shamed and abused on air, which raises the question of whether they are complicit in some grotesquely unbalanced transaction,” said Sheridan. “Female partners and employees are silenced when Theroux attempts to [interview] them. Their role is only degradation. It can never be otherwise.”Their victims include other men without a proper sense of respect for others instilled by guardians. This includes “Mattie,” a vulnerable young man who “moved to Miami to make it big, but ended up sleeping in his car and crying every night, grieving for his dead brother.”“We can argue about the original sin that turned little boys into a version of Donald Trump – the world’s most obviously wounded child – but it’s the Matties who should concern us now,” Sheridan said. “He represents all the boys on the cusp, who have been sold the idea of a matrix – a secret world government run by Satanists, feminists and Jews, which is purposely designed to make men fail. Mattie will crumble under his guru’s pressure to man up or he will morph into the worst, emotionally-disconnected version of himself, like his gurus.”
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