manosphere

English

Etymology

From man +‎ -o- +‎ -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmænəsfɪə/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈmanəsfɪː/, /ˈmanəsfɪjə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmænəsfɪr/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈmanəsfiɾ/

Noun

manosphere (plural manospheres)

1. (Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.
   • 2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2018 April 25, Alex Hern, “Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 August 2022:

     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.

   • 2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

     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.

   • 2024 November 20, Fortesa Latifi, “How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never”, in Teen Vogue‎^[3], archived from the original on 17 April 2025:

     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.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:manosphere.

Coordinate terms

• femosphere
• womanosphere

Derived terms

• manospherian
• manospheric

Descendants

• → Dutch: manosfeer

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: manosfeer (nl) m
• Finnish: manosfääri (fi)
• French: manosphère (fr) f
• Korean: 남성계 (namseonggye)
• Polish: manofsera f, androsfera f
• Portuguese: manosfera f, machosfera f
• Russian: маносфера f (manosfera), мэносфе́ра f (mɛnosféra)
• Serbo-Croatian: меносфера f
• Spanish: manosfera f
• Turkish: manosphere
• Ukrainian: маносфера f (manosfera)

Anagrams

• amorphenes