Reframing the manosphere: a public health response to a commercial ecosystem.

The manosphere is an under-recognised commercial online ecosystem linked to substantial health harms, including widespread mental health impacts in young people.

• Why it matters: Its influence is associated with mental health harms, violence against women, girls, and gender minorities, and discouraging help-seeking in boys and men.
• What they did: This Viewpoint reframes the manosphere as a public health problem, using a public health lens to interpret its role in these harms.
• The result: Treating the manosphere as a public health issue may support more appropriate responses to its linked harms across affected groups.

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