The Toxic-Masculinity-Industrial Complex
How to Get Rich and Famous by Being an Abusive Creep on the Internet, and Why That Needs to Change
In case you haven’t heard the story that took the internet by storm, it goes — deep breath — like this. An online influencer and noted violent misogynist decided to make fun — for no reason, just out of the blue, because, well, misogynists will be misogynists — of Greta Thunberg. To which she replied with the tweet above, which the internet celebrated as a hilariously accurate takedown. It went viral, and said guy — let’s call him a manfluencer — responded with a bizarre video in a bathrobe and a cigar. Next to him was a pizza box. And what happened next? The Romanian authorities swiftly detained him on charges of organised crime and rape.
To which Greta responded: “this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.” Funny? Savage? Ludicrous? All of the above. But also deadly serious. Said guy runs a camgirl “business,” and he’s more or less out of the closet as a trafficker. Don’t take it from me, take it from him, normal guys don’t exactly make remarks like (and trigger warning here for violent misogyny): “It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up b*tch.” Or, for example:
In one video explaining his reasons for…
