It is a timely title: the manosphere is big news in the West. Its influence has been detected in everything from “Adolescence ...

Whenever Charlie (Charlie Sheen) and Alan (Jon Cryer) needed his cooperation, be it for silence, participation, or simply to avoid disaster, they’d whip out their wallets faster than he could find his ...

His commentary on the bathroom portion of the bill echoed much ... This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a moral panic used to justify government overreach,” Riepe said.

Despite being around 0.5% of the population, trans people have spent the past decade being attacked in one of the most flagrant moral panics ever ... before all women’s bathroom discourse ...

Media-invented moral panics are nothing new. What sets apart the modern-day Nazi moral panic, however, is that it has achieved “evergreen” status. It can be easily dusted off and deployed on a ...

This follows a yearslong moral panic over a small handful of ... even before the first bathroom bill panic set in. And now here we are, with Speaker Johnson committing to taking a big step in ...

That’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It just happened to me with the phrase “moral panic.” A moral panic is a mass movement based on a false or exaggerated perception that something ...

The moral panic over a scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics set off a firestorm of outrage from religious conservatives and politicians who believed the ...

A bathroom bill is soon headed to the desk of ... Focusing on schools fits the larger Republican playbook of previous moral panics, according to Erin Reed, an independent journalist and researcher.

the trans bathroom invader has become a cliche. And a more recent moral panic has taken the stereotype a step further, calling members of the LGBTQ+ community, specifically trans people ...