"Masculinsim" goes mainstream: a movement to fight feminism
This episode of Fresh Air features an in-depth interview with journalist Helen Lewis about her Atlantic article, The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet, which argues that masculinism—a reactionary ideology rooted in Christian nationalism and anti-feminism—has become the central unifying f
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