The 'enlightened' influencer
There's been a bit of an online movement for a while now where women are speaking about men, and women's rights and things like that - but it's in a sort of empassioned, obsessive way, every post is a variation on these themes. It is not based on facts, solely personal opinion. There is no attempt to create conversation or change, the apparent goal is simply to polarise. What they say is extremely weighted in one direction - only one gender can behave immorally or unkindly according to them. There is no sign of them showing hobbies, art, normal life - it's entirely a soapbox for an issue they seemed oblivious to for the first 90% of their lives, usually, and presently, spent surrounded by the men they are now criticising, for example they will say they have sons and a 20 year marriage before stepping on their soapbox. It always seemed a bit off to me, bearing in mind I've been online since 2004 and these women are 30-40+ and had nothing, and I mean nothing - to say on these topics until about 2 years ago, but the 'sl4ve advertisement' posted yesterday made things quite clear. (See link below)
Attached: 1 video First time in my life I've seen someone openly advertise for a sl4ve. Context is it is a 'spiritual leader' who charges $
I've been on the internet long enough to know these women pretending to be wise and enlightened now are the same ones who would viciously attack another woman for saying something incredibly mild ten years ago. What they are doing now is essentially their villain spiel; 'poor unfortunate souls' from the Little Mermaid, Scar's conversations with Simba.
It is so widespread and overt it's hard to grasp because realising the numbers of people doing this...there are large numbers of manipulative women now dedicated to pretending they are safe for their target victims. Just as the internet has always been utilised to help predators seek victims, and people used to use it appropriately cautiously - dragonlady255, no ages and faces and such - some women have now realised they can use their status as a 'femosphere' influencer to source victims for themselves.
These women are attempting to target, and present themselves as safe for vulnerable women e.g. divorcees with young children, teenage runaways etc, so they can utilise their labour and resources. Bearing in mind these women are also still presently surrounded by the men they now criticise, to me is resembles something akin to the role of a pimp/madam where they are the female face of a male enterprise.
They are, in effect, leading vulnerable women to themselves, and behind themselves are husbands, brothers, friends - but these femosphere women make sure not to visually or narratively represent them. You will rarely or never see a male face or presence on their account in order to pretend they are working independently.
The clearest display of the end goal for these 'enlightened' women was the veiled 'sl4ve' advertisement I screenshot. The goal of making your whole online image, an obsessive attempt to prove you're safe specifically to vulnerable women while not being one, nor having any experience with being one yourself, and the goal of their attempts to sympathise with the needy - is to lure the vulnerable and needy so they can take advantage of them.
Bearing in mind there is no sense of charity, no offer of help, all they share is polarised personal opinion intended to attract a specific audience. In fact, as we can see from the 'sl4ve advertisement' what they are offering their target audience sits somewhere between demanding months of unpaid 24/7 labour or a $7 per minute charge. They are attracting a certain audience while offering said audience nothing except a request for resources.
Normal kind people live their lives, working, creating, socialising. They don't create a persona solely for the purpose of baiting vulnerable women with fake 'sympathy'. They don't run 'women's circles' that cost thousands, they don't post hundreds of videos of their extremely one sided 'truth' about a specific gender. Enlightenment is not found through division and black and white thinking, nor rigid worldviews of restrictive, stereotypical male/female dynamics. It is similar to the manosphere, male influencers saying the most ridiculous things to easily influenced men, but more insidious because it comes in a better disguise. Just like the Disney villains they inadvertently emulate, it comes with a disguise of sympathy and empathy.
At least the manosphere people are exhibiting what more closely resembles an insincere political campaign, finding weak points and offering terrible and short-sighted 'solutions' to those issues. The female version of the manosphere identifies weak points, then attempts to crawl into their hearts and minds via a convincing imitation of sympathy. The goal of manosphere influencers is to get subscribers and podcast listeners, that is, career success for themselves. They don't care about targeting specific individuals. The female 'enlightened' faux feminists of 2026 are seeking specific female targets to extract energy and resources from in person.
See: the 'advertisement' And how many more 'advertisements' are there now as these women get more confident that their manipulation is working? The biggest target for them is women under 25 who won't know, as I do, that these 'opinions' emerged from thin air 2 years ago.
Recently, I saw a married woman with children post a campaign on Instagram to find a young blonde woman she met on a plane while traveling with her family. The young woman had helped her with a technical issue which made her flight smoother regarding seating arrangements. She didn't have a name, just blonde, 20s, Derry. The woman was sourced within 24 hours, her family and friends posting about her personal life in the comments and in messages, removing her privacy even though it was stated she herself had no social media. The woman's husband was not mentioned in any of this, but what are the optics of a man sending out an online search party for a young blonde he saw on a plane.
Because a marriage is a partnership, meaning in effect, the young blonde's privacy was sacrificed in order for both of them to 'find' her. The woman's husband now knows the young blonde's name, location, and ample personal details shared by family and friends. The implicit trust given to a strange woman that would never have been given to her husband had he posted the same request (it would rightfully be viewed as sleazy) but the end result - him getting her personal details - is the same.
Why are we trusting strange women on the internet, as if they materialised from thin air and their lives are not closely involving unseen others? Very few people exist as the independent character they represent themselves as online. People need to think of the full picture before implicitly trusting any female face. Because like in this instance, 'trust' can mean all the viewers of that viral post (which had 20k likes) know know the blonde woman's details. All the men behind the scenes now know the blonde woman's details.
So you can see, the femosphere influencer is weilding a certain kind of implicit trust, where people will give up personal information to what appears to be an independent and sympathetic female face, people will listen to what they say and take it as truth. People may attend their 'spiritual' women's circles, message them private information they would never tell a strange man, and so on. So there is a lot to gain by being the 'sympathetic' woman online.