The femosphere is the internet's toxic women-focused answer to the manosphere

In a paper published in Feminist Media Studies earlier this year, Loughborough University professor Jilly Kay traced so-called femosphere online communities back to 2018 in a defensive reaction against the manosphere, the misogynistic communities that vary from anti-feminism to more explicit, violent rhetoric towards women. "In the femosphere, the red pill is often reframed as a 'pink pill' philosophy to signal a distinctively female-centric ethos," Kay wrote in her paper.

Branding itself as "the only dating subreddit exclusively for women," Female Dating Strategy promotes a six-point ideology that presents men as sex-driven and lazy, and encourages women to only seek out men who can provide for them financially.

The same goes for the phenomenon of female dating influencers on TikTok and YouTube. Influencers like Kanika Batra teach emotionally manipulative techniques for "managing [men's] dopamine levels," as a way to shape male behavior to their advantage.

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