Origins of the Manosphere

Manosphere is a term that encompasses a vast array of subjects that concern (primarily) men which rose in prominence in the internet era as online forums provided the freedom to the average man out there to express his own perspectives, free from the tightly controlled press, tv, publication houses and a very tightly controlled academia. Contrary to common views, the manosphere is not just about bitter divorced men or inc-els who just can't get laid - they include spheres/forums in which men will talk on any issues, politics, geopolitics, economy, sociology, history sciences and of course sports. And of course there is no such thing as a "manospherian ideology", the manosphere is not an ideology, it is a theoretical all encompassing term to describe the sum of various forums where men talk, often contradicting and competing ones. Manosphere rose as a term 10-15 years into the internet era but components of it such as the MRAs and PUAs existed since the late 1970s and late 1980s respectively ( Thus thinking that the manosphere started with Jordan Peterson in 2017 or Fresh and Fit in 2021 is huge error which shows non-existent understanding of this topic ).

Manosphere encompasses an array of topics including (not at all exhaustively!) the following:

- MRAs = Men rights activists -> rose in the late 1970s to defend men from the continuously changing family laws that came at the expense of men's basic human rights regarding their biological kids and their personal property. These issues and legal injustices that turn men into 2nd class citizens have not been resolved as of 2024/2025.

- PUAs = Pick-up artists -> rose in the late 1980s with writers such as Ross Jeffries and took a "community" format in the internet era in respective forums lead by PUAs such as Mystery.

- Red Pill = a generic term to describe the action of accepting the reality as it is and not as it should be -> Red Pill elements were found among MRAs and early PUAs but it was the 2nd generation of PUAs, many were followers of Mystery, such as Roissy and Roosh V who were interested to dig deeper into the topic of intersexual dynamics and how these have been affected by the established political, economic and social polices.

- MGTOWs = a group of men stemming from any of the aforementioned communities or coming from any other provenance on their own, who decide to distance themselves from women as well as from the established social paradigm

- Black Pillers = a group of disillusioned men who are completely disappointed, really dejected from the status quo, and who fall into absolute pessimism about not only the future of intersexual relations but really of the overall survivability of western societies as we know them

- Purple Pillers = men who accept most of Red Pill observations but who want to apply that knowledge within the blue-pill paradigm (i.e. knowing what they know but pretending they do not know anything)

- Christ/White/Pillers = people who combine selective observations from the Red Pill with adherence to well established religious doctrines

Even a cursory glance at the above, which are only a small number of the overall manosphere, is enough to indicate that the manosphere:

- is not an ideology

- is not one unified space

- is extremely diverse

- is just a theoretical, abstract term to

describe what is basically a collection of a huge number of mostly internet communities/forums of men discussing on a vast array of issues.The very essence of the Red Pill, especially, was precisely born to shatter that "innocent-women" image and present the female nature in its reality.