What is the Manosphere?
Have you seen the new Netflix documentary ‘Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere’ in which Louis Theroux interviews several ‘influencers’ that promote extreme / disturbing ideologies online. It is a shocking watch but prompts the importance of ensuring our children are protected from this content. In essence, the manosphere is against the empowerment of women and certain people promote these views and other harmful misinformation online via social media etc.
What should I do?
We need to develop critical thinking in our children and have age appropriate conversations with them as explained in these two articles:
https://www.brook.org.uk/blog/4-ways-to-tackle-misogyny-among-young-people/
Further info:
https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/what-is-the-manosphere-and-why-should-we-care