Experts urge public health response to manosphere and online misogyny

UK experts have recommended that the government treat the manosphere and online misogyny as a public health issue. Writing in The Lancet journal, the authors argued that these online harms should be addressed in a manner similar to obesity, smoking, tobacco use, and ultra-processed food. [1]

The authors called for a coordinated response involving governments, schools, health services, and community organisations. The report stresses the need to offer boys better alternatives, noting that manosphere content frames men's problems as the direct result of feminism. [1]

The manosphere consists of websites, blogs, and online forums that promote masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism. It includes groups such as men's rights activists, incels, Men Going Their Own Way, pick-up artists, and fathers' rights groups. These communities are generally united in the belief that society is biased against men. [2]