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So, in case you missed it, Netflix, which is about as misandressed, anti-male, and woke as any company I can think of, just dropped a so-called documentary about the manosphere. And I'm going to say this as clearly and unequivocally as possible. This is not a documentary. This is a narrative-driven hit piece designed to frame men as a problem and sell that framing as the truth. If that sounds harsh, good. It's supposed to. Because by the end of this, we're going to see exactly why. That's not an opinion, it's a conclusion.
So, as I said, Netflix just released the latest show in a long list of misandrous ones, and this one is called Manosphere. It follows last year's hit piece entitled Adolescence, which I've detailed in a prior video, and which has now gone on to be used in public schools in the UK to indoctrinate, oops, sorry, I meant teach the girl students to fear the boys and the boys to hate themselves. Even though that one was a complete work of fiction, much like this one is, it has nonetheless led to the implementation of policies in the UK schools that are, to say the least, about as anti-male, anti-boy, and glaringly sexist as I've ever seen. But I digress.
Let's turn our attention to Manosphere, which claims to be a documentary, but is anything but. So, I guess it would be prudent to start with what a documentary is supposed to be, what it's supposed to do. Well, a real documentary informs and educates. It presents facts, not assumptions. It shows multiple perspectives, including the uncomfortable ones. Most of all, if it has any credibility whatsoever, it challenges its own assumptions. Bottom line, a quality documentary helps you understand a topic, not just feel something about it. What this piece of trash doesn't do any of that. No, what it does is tells you what to think, and then builds a carefully crafted and edited story to make sure you get there. There's a word for that, but we'll get to it.
Now, let's start with the first trick, which is one Netflix has used many times in the past when it comes to societal issues. They take this massive, messy, complicated space online and slap one label on it. In this case, the manosphere. Now, everything gets thrown into that bucket. Men's self-improvement content in the bucket. Dating advice for men in the bucket. Guys talking about their struggles and issues. Oops, sorry. Ragging in anger and venting about their sad, lonely, incel lives, as Netflix calls it. Yeah, you guessed it, in the bucket. And then they cherrypick the worst, most extreme voices they can find and present that as the norm, as the whole. No nuance, no differentiation. No, they just lump everyone and everything about the subject into that one bucket, as I said earlier, and then they stick that label on hoping it will stick. That's like walking into a gym, finding the one guy doing some exercise completely wrong and about to hurt himself, and then making a documentary about it called "Why Fitness is Dangerous." It's not analysis. It's certainly not journalism. It's framing. It's narrative. It's manipulation.
And here's where it gets interesting because they don't actually have to lie. No, they just have to control what you see. And boy, do they. It's why throughout the show, they chose to use selective clips, out-of-context sound bites, dramatic music, and of course, all the emotional interviews they could find. It's a tried-and-true propaganda technique straight out of the Dr. Goebbels' handbook that was used to convince an entire country to support a Holocaust. Everything is designed and carefully crafted to guide your reaction. Not your thinking, your reaction. I mean, seriously, if your argument needs a soundtrack to work, it's not that strong. And once you see that trick, well, you can't unsee it.
So, let's talk a bit about some things they conveniently left out of their little documentary. Let's talk about what's missing because this is where the mask really slips. You cannot claim to explain men, their thoughts, their behaviors, their emotions, while at the same time completely ignoring what's happening to them. Yet, that's exactly what this show does. We all know the statistics. Men make up roughly 75 to 80% of all suicides, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Over 90% of workplace deaths are men. Boys are falling behind in school. Men are dropping out, checking out, and quietly disappearing from spaces they used to occupy. And they're sharing their struggles in relationships, the workplace, and throughout society. And what does this documentary have to say about all that? Well, nothing. Literally nothing. Not a single second of caring, concern, or kindness about any of them. Now tell me, if you're making a documentary about men, how do you leave all of that out? You don't do that by accident. It's done knowingly, deliberately, and with an agenda. And that's not incomplete. It's just plain intentional.
We all know how every fairy tale needs a villain. Every cult, even more so. And in this one, as well as the cult of feminism, which is in the end what actually created this show, that villain is men. All men. Hell, even young boys aren't exempt. More specifically, they're targeting frustrated men. Frustrated men who have chosen to share their pain, share their struggles, share their misery, only to have it weaponized against them. Because that's easy. It's clean. It's clickable. It's profitable. Showing a man rebuilding his life isn't going to trend. Showing a man growing and getting stronger won't either. But labeling it all as a dangerous, misogynistic male movement, well, that's going to get views. It's going to get headlines and it's going to get people talking. Most of all, it's going to rake in the profit. Suddenly, you're not informing the audience anymore. You're simply selling them a story, a piece of fiction disguised as a documentary. All to generate discord and, oh yeah, make a few bucks while you're at it.
Now, let's talk about how they use guilt by association, which is one of the oldest tricks in the propaganda book. One that is used to great success in this phony documentary. One where they chose to show a few of the most extreme examples you can find and then quietly suggest that everyone else is connected to it. You don't have to say it outright. In fact, they go to great lengths not to say it outright. No, they just let the audience feel it. Thus, people like me or my friend Lindsay aka Squirly Girl or Sarah Eaton or Ryan from The Unmarried Father or a host of others like us I could name are all lumped together with the Tates, the Myron Gaines, the Harrison Sullivans, and the Ed Matthews of the world. They want the audience to conclude that we're all the same. So then it's okay to view us as women-haters and misogyny personified. Except they're not, and we're not. Look, I've long been critical of many of the men they chose to feature. Mostly because I don't agree with a lot of what they have to say. Yet, this so-called documentary makes no differentiation between me, them, or really anyone who speaks out on the issues that men and boys face. It's like blaming every guy who lifts weights for that one guy on steroids who's running around punching holes in the wall. That's exactly what they're trying to do. It's not just lazy, it's downright dishonest. And make no mistake, it's deliberate. Unless we not say it, it's effective, which is exactly why they're doing it.
And let's talk about something they avoid at all costs in this so-called documentary. The questions they don't even mention or bring up, such as, why does this space even exist? Why are so many men frustrated? Why are men walking away? Why are they angry? Why are they done? Why are men having struggles at all? Well, I'll answer that for you. They don't because they don't want anyone thinking about it. Because if you do answer those honestly, well, then you don't have a clean villain anymore. No, you've got complexity. You've got nuance. You've got a discussion about the realities of the world that men face. You've got some uncomfortable truths. And we can't have any of that, can we? We can't have anyone knowing anything about the misandry, toxicity, and hate that men face from women every single day. We can't discuss the systems, the culture, the societal incentives designed to target men and cast them in a negative light or really anything being brought up that doesn't fit neatly into the Netflix narrative. So instead, they'll show you the smoke and pretend the fire doesn't matter or even exists.
And I'd be remiss not to point out another little thing they conveniently forgot to put in the documentary. And this one gets real interesting because they spend all this time digging through the internet looking for the worst examples of men to build their narrative. Yet somehow they never seem to find the femosphere. Never seem to find a single one of all those feminist women's groups out there which literally outnumber the so-called men's ones by thousands if not millions at all. You know those millions upon millions of women in online groups, forums, and comment sections openly bashing men, mocking men, generalizing men, calling them useless, calling them trash, celebrating divorce wins like it's a championship parade. Strange how none of that made the final cut. Didn't even get mentioned. Strange how they didn't make the connection. Gee, I wonder why that is. Now, are they ignorant, blind, stupid, or do they know it exists yet chose to hide its existence, lest it counter the narrative they're trying to sell?
And before someone says it, yes, there are toxic men that exist online. We've already talked about it. But if you're going to shine a spotlight on one side and completely ignore the other, well, that's not awareness. That's pure raging, toxic, hate-filled agenda. Because if this was really about the truth, they'd show both. They'd show the similarities and the differences. If it was really about understanding, they'd be asking why toxicity exists on both sides. But they didn't do any of that. Because showing both sides kills their narrative, kills their story, kills the whole "men are bad and women good" narrative. Again, proving beyond any doubt, this so-called documentary wasn't built to inform you. It was built to steer you.
Let's get real for a second. There are toxic male voices online, more than a few of them, almost all of which I've criticized more than once. There are guys out there saying dumb, harmful things. There's even women like Pearl out there trying to make a buck by inciting rage and comments by saying insane things like women shouldn't be able to vote. But the fact is nobody serious about addressing the issues men and boys face, like say, "Oh, I don't know, me," is defending what they say or do. In fact, we deplore it because it takes away from our message. But when you take the worst 1% and present it like it represents the whole, well, you're not exposing a problem. You're creating one. You are one.
So, let's wrap this up and put it all together. Manosphere is no more a documentary than the moon is made of cheese. It's hate, toxicity, and blatant sexism wrapped up in a pretty bow to make it palatable. The fact is, if you selectively represent any group and deliberately choose to ignore critical data, not to mention refuse to show the opposing views, all to emotionally manipulate the audience and frame the conclusion from the start. Well, we have to ask, at what point does that stop being a documentary and start being propaganda? And let's go one step further. If you did this to any other group but men, if you did it to, say, blacks or Asians, if you did it to Hispanics or Muslims, if you did it to women, well, let's be honest, we wouldn't hesitate to call it what it is, and rightfully so. We'd call it bias. We'd call it discrimination. We'd call it hate. But when it's men, well, then suddenly it's education and awareness. Well, my friends, no. No, it's not. Not by a long shot. Look, this isn't about defending bad behavior. It's about calling out bad storytelling, bad journalism, and yes, bad intent. It's about exposing the agenda and lies. Because when you manipulate perception and omit reality all so you can target an entire group with a distorted narrative. Well, as I said at the beginning, there is a word for that, and it's not documentary.