The Louis Theroux Manosphere Documentary

This is a bit late, isn't it! Inside the Manosphere was released this year, but in March, so I'm a good five months behind the curve. Story of my life.

I enjoyed it. There was a very interesting bit where he spoke to.. let me look up the name again, they're all the same...

Amrou Fudl (Fresh and Fit). The interesting thing was with his girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend I guess now, who basically had different ideas about the relationship to him. I can believe that he is actually quite nice to his partner behind the camera, but one thing that was interesting was where Theroux mentioned about multiple wives part. His girlfriend seemed to be against the multiple-wives thing, and looked quite uncomfortable with it, and then, it being clear it is an incompatibility between them, Amrou said that maybe in the future he'll decide to only be with one wife. After Theroux returned, ~it~you've backtracked on that already!?~~it~, and noted that it was very avoidant of him, the expression of Amrou was interesting. He swallowed and looked down. He's feeling unconfident.

It's interesting how the way he was phrasing it seemed to emphasise his, the male's agency, as the prime factor: he would decide that the multiple-wives wouldn't happen, when really it was that he would be disallowed it by his partner. Yet when he's called out, his confidence evaporated immediately. It was just bravado. He didn't want to admit that actually, he had just had to compromise in the relationship (which is standard for a relationship...)

Also interesting is the insecurity all of these people have about hitpieces, and image. They all want to look a certain part, because their livelihood is dependent on an aesthetic.

I also like the fact that the contradiction between the distaste of Onlyfans etc. that these manospherers have (and which, fwiw, I think is perfectly justified. I don't think Onlyfans/pornography is good for society) but how they then spend time with Onlyfans models, was emphasised. It's because both share the same way of living: they live off attention, off clout. It's something I noted when I used to (much to my shame) sometimes watch the `whatever` podcast as a teen. It's got a whole load of Onlyfans models and some silly men who spend their time belitting them.

A good documentary in all. It's rather unedited and there's very little commentary; it's more just clips of the influencers that reveal the story itself.

The internet is weird eh...