James Innes-Smith

There’s more to the men’s movement than Incels

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The horror of August’s mass shooting by 22-year-old Jake Davison caused many commentators to point towards a dangerous underbelly of male disaffection. But what many overlooked was the fact that the shadowy underground group of disenfranchised males that inspired Davison to take up arms is part of a much larger network of male activism dating back to the late 1970s when the men’s liberation movement split into two camps consisting of the pro-feminist men’s movement and the anti-feminist men’s rights lobby.

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James Innes-Smith
James Innes-Smith is author of The Seven Ages of Man — How to Live a Meaningful Life (Little, Brown).

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