
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.

ALT page 133 from The Myth of Normal (book) by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté: For reasons we have already begun to glimpse, many children in our culture are shut off from their authentic feelings. And how would they not be, given the conformist expectations of society, amplified through parenting advice liberally dispensed by behaviorist “experts”? Consider the prescription of psychologist and mega-bestselling author Jordan Peterson: “An angry child should sit by himself until he calms down. Then he should be allowed to return to normal life. That means the child wins—instead of his anger. The rule is ‘Come be with us as soon as you can behave properly.’ This is a very good deal for child, parent and society.”

ALT page 305 from Men Who Hate Women: Figures like Jordan Peterson represented the more socially acceptable end of the spectrum outlined in the report, while the other end featured recognizable names from the web’s most extreme communities of white supremacy and misogyny, like Richard B. Spencer and Mike Cernovich. They also included influencers with “red pill” in their usernames. By hosting and sharing platforms with some of the more radical thinkers, even if they don’t tend to subscribe openly to their views, the more mainstream personalities help to amplify “openly racist” or misogynistic ideas by treating them “as if they are perfectly normal.”

ALT page 306 from Men Who Hate Women: The potential impact of these videos on young people’s worldviews is enormous, not just because of their mass exposure but also particularly in light of the fact that repeated studies have suggested more young people now get their “news” from social media than from television or any other source. This risks leaving a deeply disturbing vacuum, ready to be filled by increasingly extreme YouTube content without the offsetting balance of any alternative or rigorously fact-checked information. But the worst was yet to come. In 2018, sociologists and former YouTube employees began to speak out about the secretive algorithms that serve up recommended videos to YouTube users, trying to entice them to watch more content after the video they originally viewed has finished. These algorithms might not seem especially important, until you learn that 70 percent of all YouTube videos watched are recommended by the platform’s algorithm.




































