India, March 18 -- 'Manosphere' has recently become a popular term in internet vocabulary, with a recent Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, generating further interest in the subject.

The UN Women website defines manosphere as "an umbrella term for online communities that have increasingly promoted narrow and aggressive definitions of what it means to be a man, and the false narrative that feminism and gender equality have come at the cost of men's rights."

Communities that form the manosphere promote their own markers of "male worth." These include emotional control, material wealth, physical appearance, and dominance, especially over women. They target male audiences across all digital spaces by appearing to fo...