"Understanding the patterns of misogyny online shouldn’t just help people find better ways to put individual hateful users in a time out. It should also give insight into how a young man becomes a misogynist. Vossen once taught courses on gender and gaming at Seneca College in Toronto, where the Toronto van attacker went to school. 'I didn’t teach him personally,' she said. 'But I had to go and check, because the views he held weren’t uncommon among his peers. There were lots of pro-rape perspectives in their essays.' People who think of men’s rights activists as rare, isolated weirdos aren’t wrong, but they’re missing the point. 'There are a thousand steps before incel, and none of them are good,' Vossen says. Tracing the steps of radicalization might someday help people walk away."
~ Emma Gray Ellis
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