Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

Oh how Louis Theroux has fallen. This isn't as interesting, deep or thoughtful as his older work back from the early 2000's. The core problem is that it's not a very deep documentary. It's basically interviews with 4 "bro dudes" (a mix between the lads lads lads types you've seen in pubs or young men who encourage the traditional male values like being in shape, being brave and projecting a traditional male presence) who have an online audience of mostly men and encourage lad behaviour. From what I've seen this show will only appeal to radicle feminists (checkout the reddit AskWomen thread for examples of this). It's missing the critical thinking that's needed to understand why these men are this way and why their audience tunes in. There's no insight on Louis' behalf into how or why they gained their following. There's no insight into why the "lad" behaviour is a bad thing either. There's no evidence presented that shows that it actually hurts women (much like how recorded incel murders is actually only at 13 worldwide, much lower than most believe). Yeah their content is crude but it isn't mainstream. Sure the influencers say controversial things, but then so do a lot of people these days including the opposite side of the spectrum, such as religious fanatics or radicle feminists. There's also no insight into who is their main demographic (it's mostly Asian men by the way, and they follow a specific religion from the middle easy that encourages multiple wives). There is also an argument to be made that Louis Theroux has always been an example of the type of man you get if you take away all traditional male values. He's the result if you don't have male only spaces, if you demonise traditional male values of being in shape and having confidence, if you demonise male banter. Is that the future for men that you really want? The truth is that there's some compromise that needs to happen between both the Manosphere group and the radicle feminist groups who think men are out to get them. This show doesn't address that at all, it just jumps on a bandwagon of this word is bad and look at these horrible people. Until people try to understand why something is the way it is, it's never going to change.