Ben Vasilou

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633 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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But Are You Happy? · The Manosphere Is A Scamosphere (And This Is How You Fight It) · 29 May 2026 podcast

So I've worked in family violence, I've worked in homelessness, I've worked in addiction and I'm like,

hold on, we have a challenge on our hands that we're really not addressing.

So I think in my sort of mid to late 20s is when I started to investigate and get a bit curious about it, start to really lean on my mates and start to ask them about their experiences.

But over the last couple of years, I think with my work at the Man Cave, it's become really obvious that we have some big challenges ahead of us.

Yeah.

I feel like there's people way more qualified than me, but the Manosphere is the perfect shit storm.

It's, you know, I had to explain actually to my auntie the other day.

I really wanted her to watch the Louis Thoreau documentary.

And I was like, watch it.

And she's like, what is it?

Is it like one of those apps like Facebook?

And I was like, okay, sit down on your cat.

Yeah, it really is.

It is a network of just really harmful, unhealthy content disguised in entertainment or healthy advice for particularly teenage boys and young men.

But the manosphere itself is constantly evolving.

So what was like a focus on Andrew Tate kind of telling people to like be dominant, be aggressive, take control.

Women want to be controlled and dominated.

has kind of really taken off kind of like a bushfire.

And now there's so many layers and complexities and nuances and different trends and algorithms.

And what it actually is, is a bunch of unhealed, immature men in teenage, sorry, teenage boys in men's bodies spouting content that is clear and concise messaging that they know

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