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Western society has, in the last 50 years, come up with some pretty daft things to pretend are real crises.

From the days of my youth, I remember how I was going to get choked to death by smog, swarmed by killer bees, and given LSD on pencil erasers some perfidious drug dealers would entice me to chew upon.

This was all pretty stupid, mind you; smog as a public health concern had been mostly eliminated by the time I got to school, killer bees have killed fewer people in the 40 or so years since that panic started than dogs will kill in half a month, and I don’t hang out with drug dealers as a rule, but I’m pretty sure they don’t waste primo product on school supplies.

All of these moral panics have been revealed for what they are: just panic. So thank heavens these grifters got the internet and social media sometime around the turn of the millennium. Unlike the fake psychedelic eraser scare, there are very real harms associated with the internet, particularly when it comes to predators and vulnerable minors. This makes it a lot easier for culture-war hustlers to launder their desire for control and censorship under the guise of a real threat, and to demand power in order to eradicate it.

In this vein, I give you Dr. Zak Zafrani, a British general practitioner who wrote a piece for the U.K. HuffPost published on Wednesday titled (no, seriously) “I’m A Doctor, We Need To Crack Down On The ‘Manosphere’ Before It’s Too Late.”

For those of you who’ve managed to avoid gawking at this silly internet subculture, it’s a diffuse, diverse group of click-chasers whose opinions about women are just as mephitic and misguided as … well, the HuffPost’s opinions about men. (Irony, thou art verily beautiful.)

The manosphere has made porn-monger (and walking advertisement for the dangers of chronic traumatic encephalopathy) Andrew Tate a minor celebrity, if primarily just as a figure of fun. It’s somehow made the phrase “Clavicular frame mogged by ASU frat leader” into an intelligible string of words for those in the know. It’s spawned so many strange, dumb........

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