the GOP let the horse out of the barn a long time ago but only now is closing the doors. Except it wasn’t really a horse, but a mangy goat covered in rotten marmalade who thinks he’s a unicorn.

Are there prominent scholars in the field coming to his defense, or is it just external MRA/first amendment types?

Your post deserves more stars! Thank you for taking the time to explain why it’s a big deal (and more than simply being about a random old white man spouting off).

I’ll confess, a big part of the failure I have to engage with the MRA movement’s arguments is their overuse of stupid jargon. When I hear “The Manosphere”, I do not think of a collection of intellectuals who cut through the obfuscations of feminism. I think of a bunch of guys wearing black robes with giant red hands…

And that’s not even to mention Frantzen’s work on the discernment of clitori! Now that piece was...what? What do you mean they aren’t the same misogynistic asshole? “Franzen”? Yeah, that’s what I said! Oh. Ohhhhh. Well, are we sure they’re two different people? I mean have we ever seen them in the same room? Cause I…