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Everybody wants to be a manager: On masculinity, microfascism and the manosphere

Bazzano, Manu·2022·European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling
DOI 10.1080/13642537.2022.2090588
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The emergence of the manosphere with its online promotion of a blinkered view of masculinity associated with the alt-right, its hostility to feminism and explicit misogyny has been characterized as aberrant in relation to mainstream psychological and cultural values. Partly expanding on Guattari’s Everybody Wants to be a Fascist, this paper argues that there is instead a profound continuity between the two. They both share an ideology of resilience: a misleading notion dominating current representations of masculinity. They both share the ideology of dataism, i.e. the view that the world can be reduced to abstracted data and measurable logic. They both share practices of microfascism, i.e. a yearning for more management, order and control in relation to the intrinsic ambivalence of being human. In our post-civil-rights era of identity politics, white ‘injured’ masculinity masquerades as a ‘different’ and ‘marginalized’ identity in relation to which the bland slogans of woke capitalism and woke consumer-culture present no real opposition. At present, most cultural representations of masculinity are essentialist. Can psychotherapy theory and practice help construct new representations of masculinity as performative, fluid and as a turning point to a deeper form of inquiry?

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  • Burbuja.info ranks 35th among the most visited Spanish forums, with traffic of 7.2 million visits in November 2022, its main competitor being Forocoches with 25.8 million.

    “Burbuja.info ranks 35th among the most visited Spanish forums, with traffic of 7.2 million visits in November 2022, its main competitor being specifically Forocoches (25.8 million).”

    From Misogyny and the construction of toxic masculinity in the Spanish Manosphere (Burbuja.info) (2023) · cites this paper as [3]

  • Of the audience that visited Burbuja.info in November, 68.9% were men and 31.1% were women.

    “Of the audience that visited Burbuja.info in November, 68.9% were men and 31.1% were women.”

    From Misogyny and the construction of toxic masculinity in the Spanish Manosphere (Burbuja.info) (2023) · cites this paper as [3]

  • The largest age group of Burbuja.info visitors in November was 25-34 years (27.3%), followed by 35-44 (22.0%) and 45-54 (18.8%); visitors aged 18-24 were 13.9%.

    “By age group, the largest was the 25-34-year age group (27.3%), followed by the 35-44-year (22.0%) and 45-54-year (18.8%) age groups. Visitors between the ages of 18 and 24 years (13.9%) were in fourth place”

    From Misogyny and the construction of toxic masculinity in the Spanish Manosphere (Burbuja.info) (2023) · cites this paper as [3]

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Authors
Bazzano, M.
Affiliations
Independent Scholar
Corresponding author
Bazzano, Manu
ORCID
Bazzano, Manu
Venue
European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2022-04-03
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
173-186
ISSN
  • 1364-2537 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-5901
DOI
10.1080/13642537.2022.2090588
OpenAlex
W4283389763
Cited by
9
References
21
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3
FWCI
2.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
Keywords
manosphere, masculinity, microfascism, alt-right, dataism, Félix Guattari, misogyny, anti-feminism, identity politics, essentialism, performative masculinity, psychotherapy practice

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