"manosphere" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmænəsfɪə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmanəsfɪː/ [British, Southern, Standard], /ˈmanəsfɪjə/ [British, Southern, Standard], /ˈmænəsfɪr/ [US], /ˈmanəsfiɾ/ [Scotland] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-manosphere.wav [UK], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-manosphere.wav [US] Forms: manospheres [plural]
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  1. (Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, passport bro's, NoFap, MGTOW, PUA, the redpill movement and incels. Tags: Internet, neologism Derived forms: manobabysphere, manospherian, manospheric Coordinate_terms: femosphere, womanosphere Translations (Translations): manosfeer [masculine] (Dutch), manosfääri (Finnish), manosphère [feminine] (French), 남성계 (namseonggye) (Korean), manofsera [feminine] (Polish), androsfera [feminine] (Polish), manosfera [feminine] (Portuguese), machosfera [feminine] (Portuguese), маносфера (manosfera) [feminine] (Russian), мэносфе́ра (mɛnosféra) [feminine] (Russian), меносфера [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), manosfera [feminine] (Spanish), manosphere (Turkish), маносфера (manosfera) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.",
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          "text": "Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.",
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          "text": "The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.",
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          "text": "Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works.”",
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