"My Brother Routinely Takes Shots Of Energy Drinks In His Anus": People Are Sharing The Wildly Concerning Behaviors The Men In Their Lives Picked Up From Toxic Male Influencers, And Some Of These Are Genuinely Hard To Believe

If you've spent immoderate clip connected the net successful caller years, you've astir apt travel crossed the word "manosphere." The connection refers to a sprawling web of antheral influencers who've built monolithic followings of young men by promoting misogynistic, racist, and far-right ideas nether the guise of self-improvement and antheral empowerment.

Often centered astir a "red pill" mentality, these creators reason that men are the existent victims successful a nine that supposedly favors women. While the rhetoric is casual capable to spot successful viral clips and podcasts, it's harder to conceptualize what those misguided beliefs really look similar successful mundane relationships.

So, we asked radical to stock the wildest things men successful their lives who've fallen into the manosphere person said, done, oregon believed — and their responses scope from bizarre to downright frightening.

From chugging pee to not holding the doorway for women, present are 15 shocking ways radical saw manosphere ideology play retired successful their lives:

1. "My ex and I got unneurotic successful our aboriginal 20s. I'm a abbreviated gal and he's a reasonably abbreviated guy, which ne'er bothered maine successful the slightest. I ne'er commented connected his tallness but to reassure him erstwhile helium made self-deprecating jokes. We moved successful unneurotic aft a year, and thing unusual started happening. He'd fastener himself successful his office, and I could perceive what sounded similar alpha-male podcasts done the doorway — similar Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and Andrew Tate. I asked him astir it, and helium said helium was conscionable funny and mostly wanted to laughter astatine them. I shrugged it off. Then, 1 day, helium launched into an unprompted rant to maine astir however women were unfair to abbreviated men similar him and however they don't privation abbreviated men and lone privation gangly men. He was saying this to maine — his GIRLFRIEND."

"I calmly pointed retired that I'm a pistillate and I privation him, positive we had aggregate communal friends who were shorter than him who did good with the ladies. I don't adjacent retrieve however that resolved, but I astir apt gave up trying to explain. Then our 2nd Valentine's Day arsenic a mates rolled around, and it was similar nighttime and time from the twelvemonth before, which had been simple, low-budget, and sweet. All I expected was precisely what I got him: a card, a saccharine treat, and a committedness of a romanticist day unneurotic (I suggested a picnic). What did I get? A lecture. Unprompted. About however women are materialistic and Valentine's Day is simply a scam that they usage to instrumentality vantage of men. Yeah...it was astatine that constituent that I realized helium was intelligibly taking notes from those podcasts. We've been breached up for 4 years now, and helium has not dated anyone since; helium adjacent tried to get backmost with me. Something tells maine his tallness isn't the crushed helium is inactive single."

—Anonymous, 28, F, United Kingdom

2. "A person of mine’s lad has fallen heavy into the manosphere. Recently, her lad said, 'Women don’t privation to enactment oregon person careers. They similar staying astatine location and conscionable having children.' Women person worked for centuries to person options extracurricular the home."

—Anonymous, F, FL

3. "One feline I cognize wouldn't clasp the doorway for women due to the fact that helium thought that would beryllium 'leading them on,' arsenic if immoderate attraction from/interaction with a pistillate is an opportunity."

4. "I dated a feline successful my aboriginal 20s who consumed truthful overmuch big contented that helium could lone decorativeness if helium was watching it portion I was going down connected him. He would decorativeness successful my mouth, and past would garbage to buss maine again until aft I had brushed my teeth and utilized alcohol-based mouthwash. He said it was 'gay' and that it 'grossed him out' to deliberation astir what was successful my mouth."

—Anonymous, 31, F, KY

5. "A pistillate workfellow from a antithetic section came to enactment 1 time and, wholly unprompted, started spewing a ton of manosphere BS astatine me. She said that DEI was liable for an summation successful suicides among men, that toxic masculinity isn’t real, that trans radical are unnatural, and that women truly can’t person it all, truthful they request to prime 1 oregon 2 things they privation (as agelong arsenic those 2 things are a hubby and a family, due to the fact that enactment should ne'er travel first). I went to HR, who did nothing."

"Come to find out, this colleague’s hubby is simply a recovering cause addict from a section governmental household (I deliberation you tin conjecture arsenic to which party), and helium had turned to religion to assistance his sobriety. Cool, thing incorrect with uncovering tools that enactment for you. However, the hubby besides got a grade successful science from a less-than-reputable schoolhouse and started down the manosphere, touting himself arsenic a beingness manager but was truly peddling psycho-babble."

—Anonymous

6. "I enactment astatine a tiny casino attached to a motortruck stop. Good lord, those men walk WAY excessively overmuch clip by themselves connected the internet. I erstwhile got trapped successful a 30-minute lecture connected however the authorities controls the upwind and each birds are fake drones watching our each movement."

—Anonymous, 35, F, MT

7. "My sister went from being a highly-qualified technologist and information idiosyncratic to a stay-at-home mom. It would beryllium OK if she chose that for herself, but I can't accidental for definite if that was the case. She besides went afloat Southern Baptist aft marrying her husband, adopting his anti-gay, anti-abortion views that ran wholly antagonistic to however we were raised. She doesn't spell anyplace oregon bash thing but Bible survey — her lone friends are moms from church. Their matrimony ceremonial included a sermon astir however women were created arsenic lesser than men from the rib of Adam, to basal beneath and down him astatine his broadside to faithfully service him. (My different sister began furious breathing truthful hard I had to nudge her and hiss to halt listening). When we effort to (politely, teeth-achingly politely) inquire her hubby astir work, he'll casually say, 'Nah, you're not astute capable to recognize it, and I don't consciousness similar explaining it to you.'"

"For context, my mother, sister, and I are a doctor, a PhD, and a lawyer, respectively. My brother-in-law is simply a programmer astatine respective job-hopping tech startups. He doesn't cook, and during holidays, helium plays connected his telephone portion everyone other (regardless of gender) picks up and puts distant the leftovers, plates, etc. He perpetually 'tests' his assemblage astir facts. Like, helium asks maine astir SCOTUS podcasts and opinions, past snorts derisively if I accidental I don't cognize capable astir the taxable to springiness him an sentiment (or, he'd reason with immoderate presumption I took). He besides says each of america (women successful the family) speech acold excessively overmuch and deliberation excessively highly of ourselves and our apparel (because I deterioration suits to work). At Christmas, upon receiving a brace of socks, helium made a look and said, 'I don't privation this,' and handed them back. He besides openly returns each the items my ma gifts him truthful helium tin support the cash. I could spell on..."

—Anonymous, 35, F, USA

8. "It's not conscionable America wherever toxic wankerisim exists. My caller flatmate from India followed manosphere podcasters similar Josh Rogan. He had to devour caller lemons each time to 'alkaline' his assemblage (BS), truthful helium picked each of them from my tree, ripe oregon not, leaving nary for anyone else. He exercised perpetually but couldn't transportation firewood (I did astir of it contempt being an aged man). He needed breaks (ostensibly to springiness maine a interruption that I didn't need). Just a worthless portion of sh*t. Oh, tin I notation that I was a worker for galore a year, truthful I don't effort to beryllium a pugnacious He-Man. Quiet assurance beats try-hards who are excessively frightened to spell anyplace adjacent the military."

9. "My ex-husband fell hard. He wholly changed aft getting into the manosphere podcast echo chamber. He would really archer maine I couldn’t perchance recognize my ain vocation compared to what helium heard connected Twitter/X for nary different crushed than that I was not a feline — gaslighting maine into reasoning I don’t recognize however things enactment due to the fact that I’m female. As a white, cis male, helium believed helium was 'clearly a unfortunate of discrimination.' If I wasn’t waiting connected him aft a afloat day’s work, I was lazy; meanwhile, helium required downtime to recharge. We some had a definite favourite sport, but I wasn’t a 'true fan' due to the fact that of my gender. By the clip I left, I was thing much than a portion of spot to him."

—Anonymous, 45, F, US

10. "My ex-boyfriend was wholly surviving successful this world. I don't deliberation helium realized it, but successful hindsight, helium said and did a batch of things that SCREAMED toxic masculinity. Things like, 'I'm not touching a diaper,' oregon 'Nothing makes maine consciousness amended than getting up for enactment portion you prevarication successful bed,' oregon 'When we are successful public, my occupation is to marque you look good, and your occupation is to marque maine look good.' That past 1 was codification for him not wanting maine going retired with friends due to the fact that 'if a feline comes up to you, it means helium wants to f*ck you.'"

11. "I hadn’t hung retired with 1 of my aged feline friends successful a while, and helium asked to conscionable up for a portion to drawback up. When we got there, helium instantly started going into manosphere stuff, and I was floored. At 1 point, helium ranted astir gender-neutral bathrooms, and I said, 'But you conscionable utilized one,' to which helium said, 'Huh?' I responded that the bathrooms astatine the barroom we were astatine weren't gendered, and helium said, 'Yeah, they’re unisex, that’s fine. Unisex is fine…they conscionable shouldn’t beryllium called sex neutral.' The worst portion of garbage helium said is that helium would lone present day women nether 25 due to the fact that they weren’t corrupted by feminism, and that anyone older mislaid their worth. It’s similar helium had nary thought helium was talking to a pistillate successful her mid-30s. He didn’t spot astatine each however helium was insulting me, his friend, due to the fact that to him it was conscionable a talking point. I knew we could ne'er beryllium friends aft that, and I’ve ne'er spoken to him again."

—Anonymous, 37, F, NY

12. "A Tinder lucifer erstwhile told maine that the time the quality broke online astir Sarah Everard's execution by a constabulary officer was seemingly a ‘very pugnacious clip online for men.’ That’s erstwhile I knew their views were twisted. What astir the thousands of women who felt incapable to safely permission the location for weeks after?"

—Anonymous, 28, F, UK

13. "My fellow got truthful heavy into the manosphere that helium would aftermath up each greeting and drink a solid of his ain piss due to the fact that 'it was the lone liquid connected the satellite not engineered to marque america weaker.'"

14. "This man's full YouTube algorithm was anti-feminist rage bait. We were sitting connected his couch, and helium was choosing euphony from YouTube to perceive to erstwhile I noticed his full algorithm was videos like, 'Feminist Gets Pumped And Dumped By Chad,' 'Woman Leaves Her Husband To Become A Gold Digger And Gets Pumped And Dumped By Chad,' 'Feminist Crying Because They Can't Get A Man,' and truthful connected and truthful forth. All of those videos were evidently staged, and the girls look the same: fake nails, fake makeup, and determination are hundreds of them. When I pointed it retired to him, helium cringed truthful hard his assemblage jerked violently successful aggregate directions. He went from feeling similar a ace chill feline showing maine his house, to a sad, precocious divorced, chubby feline who sits connected his sofa watching videos astir women crying portion his woman is retired getting caller dates."

—Anonymous, 34, F, FL

15. "My member routinely takes shots of vigor drinks successful his anus earlier workouts due to the fact that the contiguous deed it gives him makes him consciousness similar helium could combat bears."

—Anonymous, 22, MI

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