The Manosphere Isn't About Men. Or Women

Everyone has a take on the manosphere.
This isn't one of them.
Because the debate you've been watching - the one about men, women, masculinity, feminism, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson - isn't actually about any of those things.
It's about something else entirely.
Something far more boring and far more profitable.

The science on this is extraordinary. And nobody is talking about it.

Research and sources in this video:
Naomi Eisenberger, UCLA, social exclusion and physical pain
Henri Tajfel, group identity, tribalism and prejudice
NYU Center for Social Media and Politic, algorithmic radicalisation on YouTube
Molly Crockett, Nature Human Behaviour (2017), moral outrage and social media amplification
Daniel Kahneman, System 1 and System 2 thinking
Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Princeton, Deaths of Despair

Link 1 - Henri Tajfel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSx1EG4V0s
Link 2 - Molly Crocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRAfcpPpXrg
Link 3 - Anne Case and Angus Deaton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9k4s_UWiU&t=320s
Link 4 - Daniel Kahnemann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirFrDVRBo4&t=195s

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