Richard Cooper

Like there's a chapter in my most recent book where I call it the mantle swamp.

And like the name itself, Manosphere, it sounds like a gay nightclub.

It doesn't sound like anything.

There's some cohesion, if you know what I mean.

Um, so it's got a real bad branding issue and you've got guys that come into the space that are, uh, getting kids incarcerated for the pickup artistry courses.

There's guys that are in the space that say, you know, I've, I've got this beautiful compliant wife that brings other women into the bedroom and you know, we have bisexual encounters all the time.

And then you hear the recording that's been captioned and put out publicly of him talking about his wife or his girlfriend really beating him, like physically assaulting him.

And he has no control over the relationship.

You have men that will create content and say, stay away from single moms.

And then they're found to be in a marriage with a single mom sort of thing.

Right.

So.

There's really no strong consistency.

There's no strong leadership in that space, in my opinion.

And with the absence of that void, like vacuums fill, and they're gonna fill with whatever will fill it up that gets the attention of young, persuadable men, right?

The new thing now are these looks-maxer guys, right?

You get this clav kid who's on trend, smashing his bones, taking crystal meth, talking about lengthening his limbs even though he's six foot two.

None of this stuff makes sense.

And he'll even admit on his streams that the only reason why women are there is because of the attention.

because of validation of the stream and the number count going down.