In an emasculated society, men acting like men will seem extreme. If men are routinely demonized, more is at stake than just a growing cultural skirmish between sexes. Is patriarchalism a bad thing? Of course not. But if a politicized society must virtue-signal by indignantly labeling someone a criminal extremist, a dad with children has become the target. He is labeled worse than a delinquent – he is a danger. More extreme than a terrorist.

What about the guy who’s a single unmarried bachelor? Visiting manosphere websites makes him enemy number one in the UK. Officially. In the government policy documents. Thus the true threats to national security, or the actual problems, are now conveniently disregarded by the government whose job it is to protect the people from evil.

Writes Nathan Pinkoski:

“Western governments have picked up the wrong weapons to strike at Islamism and have unsurprisingly failed to hit their target. Since 9/11, many have associated Islamism with terrorism and reduced the former to the latter. This has led to a mistaken view that responding to Islamism means simply adopting tighter anti-terrorism measures. But since the problem concerns the spread of an ideology that may or may not resort to violence, these measures are inadequate to address the actual problem:

the imposition of an Islamist civilizational alternative that erases the Western and American way of life.

"Islamists can, will, and do use nonviolent techniques to gain political control over local communities and governments. Anti-terrorism measures do little to counteract that threat.

"The first strategic failure is to fight Islamism by anti-terrorism alone; the second failure is to fight Islamism by substantive neutrality alone. This approach treats all ideologies opposed to constitutional government the same. Government leaders often speak in neutral, unclear language about “extremism” or threats to “liberal democracy.” To give content to these anti-extremist programs, they end up focusing on the psychology of extremists, extrapolating a list of behaviors, attitudes, or dispositions that could affect nearly anyone and betray their own progressive ideological slant.

"The British have been caught in this cycle for years. In the first place, their “neutrality” is a fiction, since their motivations have mainly been to show they are not guilty of any anti-Muslim sentiment. In that spirit of signaling their friendliness to Islam, the Conservative Government tried to adopt substantively neutral language to address the problem of extremism. As expected, its vagueness satisfied few. Following their electoral defeat in 2024, the new Labour Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, ordered a review of anti-extremist policy.

"The UK government now defines extremism in terms of behaviors that include “spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories” and participating in “an online subculture called the ‘manosphere.’”