Anti-Feminism and Self-Improvement: Hegemonic Femininity in the Manosphere

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI:10.1177/20563051241302154

Sanne Pieters, Daniel Trottier

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Abstract

The Red Pill adherents believe “feminist doctrines” in society deprive men and women of being their natural selves, disrupting heterosexual relationships in consequence. Research on manosphere groups generally focuses on men’s involvement, but women participate in these movements too. One such form of participation is the RedPillWomen subreddit (“r/RPW” in reddit jargon). Hegemonic femininity remains an understudied component of the manosphere. Using a qualitative critical thematic analysis, 127 texts are analyzed to establish what constitutes hegemonic femininity on the r/RPW according to moderators and how this is enacted and maintained by Subreddit members. It is found that moderator texts use discourses of evolutionary psychology, neoliberalism, and anti-feminism to construct a local postfeminist femininity that is both subordinate to men as well as highly entrepreneurial. Subreddit-member posts showed how this femininity is enacted and maintained, demonstrating the responsibility women feel in transforming both the physical and psychological. Peer-surveillance served to reach consent on group norms, correct those who deviate from these norms, and create boundaries between RedPillWomen and other women. This research demonstrated how postfeminist sensibilities in the manosphere shape the articulation of various local hegemonic femininities that both contrast and parallel each other.

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反女权主义与自我完善：男人圈中的霸权女性气质

“红色药丸”的拥护者认为，社会上的“女权主义教义”剥夺了男人和女人做自然自我的权利，从而破坏了异性恋关系。对管理圈团体的研究通常集中在男性的参与上，但女性也会参与这些运动。其中一种参与形式是RedPillWomen子reddit （reddit行话中的“r/RPW”）。霸道的女性气质仍然是管理圈中一个未被充分研究的组成部分。使用定性的关键主题分析，127个文本被分析，以建立什么构成了霸权的女性气质在r/RPW根据版主和这是如何制定和维护Subreddit成员。研究发现，调节文本运用进化心理学、新自由主义和反女权主义话语，构建了一种既服从于男性又具有高度创业精神的地方后女权主义女性气质。subreddit成员的帖子展示了这种女性气质是如何制定和维持的，展示了女性在改变身体和心理方面的责任。同伴监督的作用是在群体规范上达成一致，纠正那些偏离这些规范的人，并在RedPillWomen和其他女性之间建立界限。这项研究表明，在庄园中，后女权主义的敏感性如何塑造各种地方霸权女性的表达，这些女性既相互对照又相互平行。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.