Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-23
Books mentioned on Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere
Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss the sigma male. FOOTNOTES: 1.
Robert Evans discussed Sigma Male by Mario White, The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell, It Came from Something Awful by Dale Beran, 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson, and The Wolf by L. David Mech.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sigma Male
Discussed“The cover of a book titled The Sigma Male, What Women Really Want. Now, the cover of this book features a man in a suit with a medieval sword as the cover art.”
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The Myth of Male Power
Discussed“He then in 1993 wrote the myth of male power. Now, this book was a foundational text for men's rights activists and it claimed that men, not women, were systematically disadvantaged in modern society.”
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It Came from Something Awful
Discussed“In his book, it came from something awful, which is wonderful. David Baron notes, quote, this Hefner vision of manhood was still tied to economic achievement. like the breadwinner vision of manhood.”
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12 Rules for Life
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B.
Discussed“With the advent of the internet, elements of the pickup artist community's ideology hardened into something darker. It paved the way for other masculineized self-help formations to emerge, such as Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life, says O'Neal.”
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The Wolf
Discussed“His findings were backed up in 1970 when wildlife biologist David Mech published the wolf, the ecology and behavior of an endangered species. Now, we now know that all of this research was fundamentally flawed.”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Lolita
“my week really did devolve into Lolita ended and I'm like I can do whatever I want and it turns out whatever I want is reading Kathy comics for three straight days.”
Passing We need to talk about Kevin
“Um Mark's hobbies as a boy included shooting pigeons with an air rifle and reading about Adolf Hitler, who he grew to admire. It's very we need to talk about Kevin.”
Passing The Game
“We're heading into the years of Tucker Max and The Game and that mids [ __ ] Bring it on. Yeah. And I I I don't know. I think also maybe part of the reason I didn't get as much into it is that by kind of 2004 or five”