Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss the sigma male.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/elliot-rodger-puahate-forever-alone-reddit-forums

2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/mass-shooting-1989-montreal-14-women-killed

3. https://newrepublic.com/article/145097/hugh-hefners-incomplete-sexual-revolution

4. https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/lepine_note_1.1.pdf

5. https://medium.com/@yaraticineo/what-is-sigma-male-b22bc154b3b9

6. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/what-is-a-sigma-male-the-so-called-rarest-man

7. https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/786016778048643073/photo/1

8. http://davemech.org/wolf-research/

9. https://www.themarysue.com/alpha-sigma-abo/

10. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/sigma-males-explained/

11. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sigma-males

12. http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/05/explaining-sigma-again.html

13. https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-everything-you-know-about-wolf-packs-is-wrong-502754629

14. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theodore_Beale

15. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/05/pickup-artists-teaching-men-approach-women-industry-street-harassment

16. https://deepai.org/publication/from-pick-up-artists-to-incels-a-data-driven-sketch-of-the-manosphere

17. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13216

18. https://www.amazon.com/Came-Something-Awful-Accidentally-Donald/dp/1250189748

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