Prof of Sociology @ Monash; Interim Head, School of Social Sciences; sociologist of masculinities and/or youth. Board Director, Respect Vic; Assoc Ed, Journal of Youth Studies; Committee member, AWCA; Spurs fan 😳😬
Steve Roberts
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The ABC did me a kindness by giving me space for an expanded/ slightly more analytical version of my take on Louis Theroux’s manosphere doco. There is value for the uninitiated, but risks of glamour, & huge limits in lack of attending to real life harms women face.
www.abc.net.au/religion/lou...
Part two of my debut on Taiwanese TV, with TaiwanPlus! :)
In this section of 'Connected', we explored the trad wife phenomenon...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLJU...
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Explore what Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere shows: the brazen entitlement of influencers, how they recruit boys, the harms to girls & women, and discuss why trauma doesn’t drive or explain misogyny. theconversation.com/louis-therou...
🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to have made my Taiwan TV debut this week!
Here is part one of the 'Connected' show on TaiwanPlus, in discussion with Jess Reia, talking about the manosphere and networked misogyny. Part 2 (on tradwives) to follow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGn...
Very happy to confirm our article is now OPEN ACCES!
'The reanimation of normative manhood acts in schools: teachers’ accounts of boys’ manosphere-aggravated misogyny', is published in Gender & Education.
Pls share widely!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social
New in Monash Lens by me & @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social.
Looking at Married at First Sight, we consider how the language of “masculine energy,” “alpha men,” & “natural roles” constructs a world where gender hierarchy feels inevitable rather than ideological.
lens.monash.edu/married-at-f...
What keeps men out of frontline care work? - Our new paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social suggests problem is less masculine identity anxieties & more low pay, insecure hours, limited progression & poor public understanding of care work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Great piece by @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social on Theroux's manosphere documentary - www.abc.net.au/religion/lou...
This is not "collateral damage." It is always civilians who suffer the most when nation states wage war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term oft...
Drawing on qualitative survey data from 107 Australian teachers, we analyse how boys perform masculinity in schools through dominance, derision, defiance, and harassment, in ways that constitute re...
A heated MAFS exchange reveals how “masculine energy” talk disguises power and submission as human nature.
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Michael Messner
Nathan Manning
Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid ....
The manosphere offers a false certainty in a time of social flux. It promises cheat codes, leadership and restored order — what it delivers is hierarchy repackaged as empowerment, with consequences th...
The manosphere offers a false certainty in a time of social flux. It promises cheat codes, leadership and restored order — what it delivers is hierarchy repackaged as empowerment, with consequences th...
