A review by jazlynaw
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

challenging dark informative medium-paced

3.0

The first two-thirds of the book is describing the manosphere and its consequences. Very dry and explicit but a great explanation for those less familiar. If you're well versed on this topic already, I would skip to the last third of the book which focuses more on how these ideologies have been adopted and weaponized by politicians and pseudoscientists as well as how young boys are radicalized. 

I’m not sold on the idea that labelling incels as terrorists and increasing police efforts to address them is an effective solution. As noted by Bates, so many of those in positions of power and police officers espouse these ideologies or are misogynistic. Counterterrorism has largely been ineffective in squashing terrorism, let alone the ideologies that underpin it. 

The analysis and recommendations are honestly quite tame. Deplatforming and regulating social media algorithms seem to be the two convincing recommendations put forward. Not convinced that terrorism framework is useful in this (or most) contexts. 
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