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Donna Zuckerberg discusses her book Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age; a disturbing expose of how today’s alt-right men’s groups use ancient sources to promote a new brand of toxic masculinity online.
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About Bang Rome: Why Pickup Artists Read Ovid, and Why It Matters
Diving deep into the virtual communities of the far right, where men lament their loss of power and privilege, and strategize about how to reclaim them, she finds, mixed in with weightlifting tips and misogynistic vitriol, the words of the Stoics deployed to support an ideal vision of masculine life. On other sites, pickup artists quote Ovid’s Ars Amatoria to justify ignoring women’s boundaries. In defense or retaliation, feminists have also taken up the Classics online, to counter the sanctioning of violence against women. Not All Dead White Men reveals that some of the most controversial and consequential debates about the legacy of the ancients are raging not in universities but online.