Manosphere Myths: What History ACTUALLY Says About Marriage, Gender & Obedience

Across the 'manosphere' and trad-wife culture, a claim keeps resurfacing: that marriage works best when men lead and women obey.

Accordingly, nearly a third of Gen Z men agreed that a wife should always obey her husband, and a third said the husband should have the final say in important decisions. That’s more likely than Baby Boomers or any other living generation to think so.

The people pushing this ideology usually argue two things at once: that this model is traditional, and that it’s natural.

So, is there some truth to this - or are they selective myths assembled from fragments of different periods? Because when people say the answer is to “go back,” the obvious question is... back to what, exactly?

Bianca Nobilo delves into the history of how the manosphere came to be - speaking to special guests, Princeton primatologist and biological anthropologist Professor Agustín Fuentes and legal historian Professor Rebecca Probert.

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