PositiveNPRThe founder of the Everyday Sexism Project and author of a number of other books about misogyny spent a year immersed in what\'s called the \'manosphere,\' a vast online world in which incels rub elbows with an assortment of other misogynists — from \'pickup artists\' with little respect for the concept of consent, to the male separatists who call themselves Men Going Their Own Way (but who can\'t seem to stop talking about women). The book she has extracted from this experience, Men Who Hate Women , which hit U.S. shelves this month but published earlier in the UK, is an often harrowing read; an uncompromising guide to the misogynistic backlash of the past decade or so ... Bates is deft in sorting through the angry, hostile, and self-pitying rhetoric of the incels, who manage, as she notes, to be both victims of and purveyors of hate ... The weakest part of Bates\' book is, unfortunately, the section devoted to solutions. But that\'s not altogether her fault ... there are few out there willing or able to do this important work — at least at this moment in history. Perhaps Bates\' book can help to inspire more men to try.
