manosphere

American  

[man-uh-sfeer] / ˈmæn əˌsfɪər /

noun

Digital Technology, Informal.

1. a loosely affiliated network of masculinist websites, blogs, and online forums.

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Etymology

Origin of manosphere

First recorded in 2015–20; man ( def. ) + -o- ( def. ) + sphere ( def. )

Example Sentences

Still, it calls on young men to cast off their old interests and influences and remake their lives by embracing a collection of extreme worldviews—in this case, tech’s optimization culture, fundamentalist Christianity, and the manosphere’s aesthetic self-improvement culture.

From Slate

Amid much talk last year of podcasting’s dominant “manosphere,” “Good Hang” became an instant success by making good on the promise of its title.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although the manosphere content often cited by media and scholars is not necessarily racially regressive, it is distinctly gender regressive, and that appears to be taking a toll on Gen Z.

From Slate

It does us no favors to conflate the important gains in racial progress among Gen Z with the real evidence of the impact of the manosphere and red-pill communities.

From Slate

But you and Travis present a masculinity that reads a little differently than some of the edgier “manosphere” stuff.

From The Wall Street Journal