MATT LEWIS: But look, I think what's really dangerous for Donald Trump here are the last part of the coalition that kind of came together in 2024, call them the Manosphere, right? You've got this guy, Andrew Schulz, you’ve got Joe Rogan, you got Theo Vonn, they were really important for bringing kind of apathetic, non-political people into the Trump fold.
Dublin City Council's refusal to approve the ROSA demonstration posters, citing potential offensiveness towards individuals pictured, highlights ongoing tensions regarding freedom of expression in public demonstrations.
In a paper published in Feminist Media Studies earlier this year, Loughborough University professor Jilly Kay traced so-called femosphere online communities back to 2018 in a defensive reaction against the manosphere, the misogynistic communities that vary from anti-feminism to more explicit, violent rhetoric towards women. "In the femosphere, the red pill is often reframed as a 'pink pill' philosophy to signal a distinctively female-centric ethos," Kay wrote in her paper.