MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill

Always good to start the year with a publucation! This one includes a chapter by the @mantrap.bsky.social team about using corpus linguistics to address the effects of online misogyny.

Statement and Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls Today we are publishing practical guidance for tech companies on creating a safer life online for women and girls.

On some days, I am reminded that my work matters, like when @ofcom.bsky.social include the @mantrap.bsky.social response into their guidance on how tech companies can and must make online life safer for women and girls 💜

www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Featuring @jessaiston.bsky.social from the @mantrap.bsky.social team

Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.

The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content'

Read our submission below

committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...

The online manosphere poses a real threat to society

Our response published today in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them."

Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating

source: I literally wrote a book about this group

Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

And now it's my turn, to provide an overview of the @mantrap.bsky.social project - happy to share slides on request!

www.linkedin.com/posts/sensoc...

Senso.cloud | Cloud-based device monitoring, management and online safety tools Device monitoring and management software in an all-in-one cloud-based solution for network, classroom, asset management and online safety.

Today, the @mantrap.bsky.social team presented our research on the language of the manosphere to senso.cloud/en-GB, a company developing safeguarding software. We talked about manosphere-specific words, ordinary words in specific co-texts and discourse features beyond words (syntax, grammar etc.).

Two presentations with my and others'names on them were given today while I could have a domestic day: @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social on the discourse of supporters and opponents of Irish populust parties, and @alexiconartist.bsky.social on the latest @mantrap.bsky.social research - thank you both!

There should be no place for violent misogyny and sex trafficking rapists on Spotify.

Two of Tate's "courses" have been removed, but one still remains. You can join this email campaign to demand Spotify remove it: www.collectiveshout.org/contact-spot...

My monograph 'Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, Argumentation' is now available for purchase as an ebook with John Benjamins, though you will need to pre-order for a physical copy.

benjamins.com/catalog/daps...

I’ve put together a list of must read recent publications and resources about online misogyny, the manosphere & gender-based violence 🧵

Submit your extended abstract for a special issue of @critdiscstuds.bsky.social on the language of the #manosphere by the end of Sunday. My @mantrap.bsky.social colleagues and I are interested in research-based interventions and non-Anglo contexts.
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CfP deadline fast approaching for our special issue in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social

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