Media Matters — Manosphere influencers promote sexual assault and downplay rape

What the study found

A March 2024 analysis by the media-watchdog group Media Matters for America documented the podcast Fresh & Fit and its co-host Myron Gaines promoting sexual assault and downplaying rape. It quotes a post from the Fresh & Fit X account reframing a woman's account of coercion as not really rape, and it quotes Gaines describing false accusations as common and dismissing the idea of rape culture. ^[1]

False accusations are a real thing and women lie about that all the time to get sympathy and garner some type of attention to themselves because they regret sex

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Why it matters here

This Media Matters analysis is one of the sources the site uses to document the public statements of Myron Gaines, a co-host of the Fresh & Fit podcast. It gathers his recorded remarks on rape and false accusations in one place, which lets readers weigh characterisations of his rhetoric against the primary posts and clips it cites. On this site it is used to ground factual details about what he has said rather than to editorialise about him.