Hatewatch has identified a previously pseudonymous author and ideologue whose writings in the 2000s and early 2010s heavily influenced the “manosphere,” a loose network of blogs, forums, websites and influencers who support rolling back women’s rights, reject feminism and advocate for rigid gender roles. Christopher Moore, 60, is a former academic who has written under the pen name “Francis Roger Devlin” or “F. Roger Devlin” since the early 2000s. He is the author of the highly influential 2006 essay “Sexual Utopia in Power” and a 2015 book by the same name. Both works argue that men are victimized by policies and other efforts to promote sexual and gender equality, which he argues have “made men less attractive to women” and “probably contributed significantly to the decline in Western birthrates.” White nationalists and more mainstream far-right figures have credited Moore’s work as Devlin with shaping the male supremacist movement, or “manosphere,” into what it is today. “Everyone who has read Devlin seems to have started a blog or YouTube channel,” David Futrelle, a researcher on the radical right, wrote in 2013, referring to “Devlin’s” essays as a “Manospherian urtext.” Moore’s essays and commentary present sexual liberation and declining birth rates in white-majority countries as intertwined. In so doing, they provide a bridge between the more overt white nationalist groups and broader male supremacist circles, whose adherents may be less politically inclined. Under the Devlin pseudonym, Moore has spoken at various conferences hosted by radical-right groups within the U.S. and Europe. He has served as a contributor to several white nationalist publications, penning over 200 articles for those outlets since the mid-2000s, in addition to editing, authoring and translating several books.
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