Citations:manosphere

Noun: "(neologism) the totality of men's rights-oriented blogs and websites"

 * 2012, Bettina Arndt, "Why women lose the dating game", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 April 2012:
 * That's when some men start behaving very badly - as the manosphere clearly shows. These internet sites are not for the faint-hearted.
 * 2012, Bilbo Poynter, "Fathers on the edge", The Gazette (Montreal), 21 July 2012:
 * Misandry is the hatred of men by women and there are dozens of websites like this one in what sometimes gets called the "manosphere," dedicated to the idea that men's' civil rights - often father's rights - are under attack by feminists and the courts.
 * 2013, Michael Kimmel, Angry White Men: American Masculinity and the End of an Era, Nation Books (2013), ISBN 9781568589640, unnumbered page:
 * The emergence of what one writer calls the “manosphere” is a loose collection of websites that sustain the rage;
 * 2013, Suzanne Moore, "The backlash against feminism aims to preserve the 'manosphere'", The Guardian, 31 July 2013:
 * They may do some childcare and fantasise about PJ O'Rourke, but they encourage the bottom-feeders of the "manosphere" who never seem to realise that feminists not only have relationships with men, but sons too.
 * 2013, Lesley Riddoch, "Male mindset still in threat mode", The Scotsman, 5 August 2013:
 * Thirty-three years later, here we are again, with prominent women sent rape threats as a way to silence and exclude them from the public world – a “so far and no further” alert delivered by the “manosphere” as it was once delivered by all powerful print media.
 * 2013, Daphna Hacker, "Men's Groups as a New Challenge to the Israeli Feminist Movement: Lessons from the Ongoing Gender War Over the Tender Years Presumption", Israel Studies, Volume 18, Number 3, Fall 2013:
 * Moreover, they promote a misogynist discourse in what is now called the "manosphere"—a web of hundreds of Internet sites, blogs, and forums devoted to slandering all women as a group.
 * 2013, Alyssa Pry & Alexa Valiente, "Women Battle Online Anti-Women Hate From the 'Manosphere'", ABC News, 16 October 2013:
 * Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic and blogger, learned this the hard way after campaigning on Kickstarter to raise funds for a web series on the roles of women in video games. The attacks from the Manosphere were swift.
 * 2014, Caitlin Dewey, "Inside the ‘manosphere’ that inspired Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger", The Washington Post, May 27 2014:
 * When people talk about the “manosphere,” they’re basically talking about a vast, diverse network of blogs and forums that take a certain antagonistic stance toward women and dating. Not all branches of the manosphere are overtly appalling; not all of them are even run by men.