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I'm writing a book about the rise of reactionary movements in Western geek culture, particularly since the beginning of the internet until now, and how we got stuck in this shitty alt-white meme-fash tech-dystopia within a mere 25 years: Article thread! 1/🧵

If you want to read along with this project as I draft it, you can sign up for my weekly current affairs commentary newsletter. The newsletter every Friday is free, but draft chapters of my book, roughly once a month, are for paid subscribers only. The first episode frames the topic: 2/🧵

The second episode defines feminism and sets the stage for how reactionary antifeminist movements emerged as a backlash to feminism in the mid to late 20th Century. 3/🧵

The third episode deals with the more extreme antifeminist sentiment that began to evolve upon the development of the internet, specifically the "Men's rights movement." 4/🧵

The fourth episode details the foundation of the internet itself, from its little-discussed bulletin board culture, that developed separately from ARPANET but seeded the internet's predominently white/male/libertarian culture. 4/🧵

The sixth episode takes us back to the symbiotic relationship between Japanese culture and Western culture, from the 18th Century up until the 21st Century and the development of the notorious 4chan culture that would largely define the internet. 6/🧵