De manera paralela al avance de una “cuarta ola” feminista, se ha consolidado un movimiento antifeminista que se articula en torno a la reinvindicación de los derechos de los hombres y la negación de la existencia de una violencia con un componente específico de género, que se ha articulado principalmente en y desde Internet. Finally, following Chouliaraki, we present an analysis of the four main argumentative mechanisms we have identified through which victimhood is claimed in the Spanish manosphere: (1) separation of victimhood from structural reality (2) separation of victimhood from its context (3) inversion of the roles of victim and perpetrator and (4) dismantling of the binary sufferer/perpetrator.Įstamos viviendo, desde hace algunos años, una polarización del debate público en lo concerniente a la cuestión de la igualdad de género, siendo la violencia sexual cometida contra mujeres un punto caliente de dicha discusión. Building on Fazili’s categorisation of victimhood claims as experience, stance and self-presentation, we operationalize them as a conceptual framework in this article to analyse how they are taken up in the manospheric context in a way that works to configure the regimes of male victimhood which, in turn, helps disseminate pain in the platform. We conclude that within the Spanish manosphere, there is a regime of male victimhood. Our findings are the result of a multiplatform digital ethnography conducted in the Spanish manosphere including participant observation of a variety of subcultures in diverse platforms, blogs and websites. We believe the narrative of male victimhood is being used to justify misogynistic claims and to ground a specific antifeminist strategy oriented towards a political dismantling of feminism.
In this article, we focus on the idea of male victimhood and the ways it is articulated and reworked to serve specific masculinist interests. The manosphere has become a popular digital social object of research and a growing academic corpus aims to make sense of online masculinist subcultures and the rise in misogynistic discourses in digital environments.
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