The Manosphere Versus Archaeology

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read the companion essay "It's just biology. It's always been this way." You've heard it. This week we put that claim on trial. We cross-examine one of the internet's most confident ideas — that gender roles are biologically hardwired — against three empirical sources: a psychological analysis of manosphere forums, a reassessment of the Roman villica (spoiler: not a housekeeper, but the CEO of an industrial estate), and a genome-wide study of Iron Age steppe burials where 4...