“So far, unlike most other European countries, we don’t really have any Irish male supremacist influencers,” says Prof Debbie Ging, “and long may that last”.
Ging has been keeping tabs on the so-called manosphere for the past decade. Through extensive research, she has traced the early beginnings of this previously obscure online world right up to its current status as the talking point of the day.
The conversation about the manosphere has been given fresh legs by Louis Theroux’s recent Netflix documentary, titled Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere.
But anyone shocked or appalled by what they saw in Theroux’s programme should not take too much solace from Ging’s…