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4.2M Q&A - Sleeping With An Ex, Harambe & Settling Down - #1104
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Q&A: Louis Theroux Manosphere Backlash
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After doing the Louis Theroux manosphere documentary episode, then a Bernie Sanders interview on birth rates, Chris found himself accused of being a feminist shill by the manosphere and a red-pill grifter by feminists — often in the same month. Being hated by both sides might be the clearest sign you're doing something right.
Alex O'Connor's shift from atheism to agnosticism isn't just a semantic tweak — it reframes the whole conversation. Instead of charging in with 'that's irrational, here's science,' he steps onto believers' own field of play and engages on their terms. People are exhausted by adversarial religion discourse, and O'Connor is filling that gap.
