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> a topic which in this era is more likely to be met with scoffs of “good riddance” rather than alarm bells. I'm not sure about that. The Internet "manosphere"

> a topic which in this era is more likely to be met with scoffs of “good riddance” rather than alarm bells. I'm not sure about that. The Internet "manosphere" (for lack of a better term; consider it the all-encompassing phrase for both harmless and not-so-harmless subcultures like weightlifting, PUA, redpillers, the alt-right, etc.) seems more obsessed with masculinity than anyone I can recall seeing in previous decades. "Plastics in the water are destroying men" has been a ha-ha-only-serious topic in those circles for a while now and this will only solidify it. For better or worse, there are enough people concerned about this stuff that I doubt it will get handwaved away.

zaroth 8y ago
It’s exactly those harmless and not-so-harmless subcultures obsessed with [toxic] masculinity who are the fringe groups which somehow (almost by osmosis) seem to corrupt this fairly shocking scientific line of inquiry.
- Analemma_ 8y ago
  It is unfortunate that this pretty serious issue is going to be somewhat "guilty by association", but I don't think it will get so bad that no one's going to care about it. Men are just, well, too invested in this stuff. I just wanted to allay concerns that nobody's going to care because it would be too "un-PC".