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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-27-2025

Abstract

In recent years, male supremacist actors have reinforced their misogynistic worldviews by using narrative strategies centered on authoritative “common sense” and scientific “fact.” This paper presents a thematic narrative analysis of The Incel Wiki and the Wiki4Men, representing the first formal analysis of the wiki for the men’s rights organization A Voice for Men. The analysis indicates male supremacists use techniques including misappropriation of scientific information, manipulation of statistics, and leveraging pseudoscientific information to develop their narrative strategies of supremacy. The most consistent narrative strategies of scientific sexism on the wikis are male victimhood, denial of inequality between men and women, and the dehumanization of women. The study contributes to our understanding of how male supremacist actors differ in their approaches to leveraging scientific sexism to reinforce, perpetuate, and ultimately normalize their misogynistic belief systems.

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This work was originally published in Men and Masculinities, DOI: 10.1177/1097184X251386553.

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