{"id":356103,"date":"2026-03-20T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:39:10","slug":"bill-linnane-manosphere-im-raising-my-sons-to-be-decent-blokes-in-the-linnaneosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356103\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: Manosphere? I\u2019m raising my sons to be decent blokes in the \u2018Linnaneosphere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">I want my kids to strive to be decent \u2013 because it can be harder than it looks\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(L to R) Louis Theroux and Harrison Sullivan (HS Tikky Tokky) in \u2018Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere\u2019. Photo: Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6fce9d4d-73cc-4593-97b3-5f01dfb01d92.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">(L to R) Louis Theroux and Harrison Sullivan (HS Tikky Tokky) in \u2018Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere\u2019. Photo: Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Like any father, I too am worried about the manosphere \u2013 primarily I worry about having to read any more about it or that I might be forced to listen to another podcast on the topic, but also that my kids might end up being confused enough to actually absorb some of the messaging emanating from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Louis Theroux\u2019s Netflix documentary on some of the more prominent figures in the sphere provided more reasons of concern for anyone not already fretting about the impact toxic masculinity might have on their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I want my kids to strive to be decent \u2013 because it can be harder than it looks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17711,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-356103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bill-linnane","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}