Tory Shepherd: Many misogynistic hate sites operate in Australia, recruiting and radicalising men and boys
Hidden in secret Facebook groups, these Australian men brag and swap tips about abusive sexual conquests overseas. This is what Tory Shepherd found out by infiltrating their community.
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In the festering corners of the internet, there are groups of angry men who believe they have a “right” to sex. Poor things. Wait until someone tells them you don’t even have a “right” to have sex with your own wife.
Their outraged spittle will speckle their laptops.
Lots of Australians are in these extremist groups. They both detest and desire women. They want to rape them but also want to be wanted. They feel their lives are not what they dreamt of, and that feminism is the reason.
Many of them are labelled “incels” — involuntarily celibates. Some incels are just sad. Others are angry. Recent mass shooters in the US were incels; Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant was an incel website regular.
There are also Pick Up Artists (hellbent on tricking women into having sex with them, and occasionally forcing them); Men Going Their Own Way (who avoid women altogether), and; Red Pillers (who believe they’ve found the truth about women).
They’re the “manosphere” — a loose conglomeration of groups on the internet that focus on men’s victimhood.
Recently I somehow found myself in a private chat with some members of Anti-Feminism Australia. Their leader Michael Smith (probably not his real name) is keeping a diary of his overseas adventures.
It’s a wild ride, comprising angry rants about Australian women and feminism. And his white-hot rage that women won’t sleep with him even when he’s spent $10 buying them dinner.
He’s been in South America, searching for the perfect “p**sy paradise”, because he really likes to “smash p**sy” and believes he is “exotic” because of the “high white god factor” in the countries he is visiting. But his frustration is mounting.
The women he meets through apps are “gold-diggers” or “frigid” or “c**k teasers”.
But, he decides, you can “be more forceful with them” because “you don’t have to worry about bitches making false rape allegations”.
“I started touching her boobs and she said no and moved my hand. At this point, my instinct from all the feminist brainwashing of ’no means no’ in Australia told me to stop there, but then I remembered what (pick-up artist) Roosh said — these women like to pretend they are resisting and they want you to use force,” he writes.
“So I kept forcing her hand away and tried to take off her clothes as she resisted. She was laughing so I knew she was enjoying it. So forget all the feminist bull***t you hear in Australia — in Colombia ‘no doesn’t mean no’ and they actually want you to use force.”
He eventually cracks it entirely because he keeps buying those $10 dinners and thinks that should get him laid.
“They have made me so f**king pissed I want to punch them. No wonder so many guys hit them here. I don’t blame them for a second. Bitches deserve it.”
When a critic jumps into the chat, one of his followers suggests he should be slotted — that’s internet slang for putting someone in the ground. I’m probably on their slot list now, too.
This is a guy whose closed Facebook Group has almost 10,000 members — according to the Anti-Feminism Australia website. A previous one had 70,000 before it was banned.
And it’s just one of many misogynistic hate sites operating in Australia, recruiting and radicalising men and boys. Authorities know there are dangers lurking in the manosphere but not how to deal with them.
Banning sites is an endless game of whack-a-mole, while broader fixes such as dealing with toxic masculinity are nebulous, long-term pipe dreams.
Professor Rob Brooks, from the University of NSW, has suggested sex robots could be an answer.
Men’s rights activists could program their perfect female: Submissive, obedient, and always sexually available.
Then these men would have what they appear to want — complete dominion over perfectly put-together female forms. A creature you can silence with an app and order to make sandwiches.
And you don’t even have to fork out for a $10 dinner to get what you want.