‘Mormon Land’: Are LDS men falling prey to extremist online messages — and messengers — about masculinity?
Some views may align with the church’s family proclamation, but others stray into dangerously misogynistic territory that most members and top leaders would surely oppose.
(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Certainly not for the first time, the United States has become a hotbed of hot takes and even hotter debates over men’s roles in the home and society. Fueling this fiery crisis of masculinity is, of course, social media, podcasts and other online forums.
Enter the “manosphere,” a conservative- and Christian-leaning media ecosystem aimed at male empowerment.
On this week’s show, Amy Chapman, a faculty member at Arizona State University’s teachers college, and Levi Sands, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Iowa, discuss this growing subculture and its influence on Latter-day Saint men.
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