By K.J. Yossman
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Courtesy of Netflix The Louis Theroux story I wanted to write was about what he learned while making his new Netflix documentary, “Inside the Manosphere,” which came out on March 11. In it, the filmmaker follows four so-called “masculinity” influencers who have grown sizeable online followings by loudly proclaiming themselves to be the apex of manhood. They espouse misogynistic, homophobic, scammy and violent views, predominantly for attention, which they then monetize.
But my encounter with Theroux, in a recent 30-minute Google Meet interview to promote the documentary, unexpectedly went in a different direction, one that suggested the U.K.’s most proficient public interrogator has a peculiar blind-spot when it comes to probing his own dogmas.
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