Craig Haslop
Biographic Data
| ID | 284831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Haslop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Haslop |
| SIGNATURE | HASLOP C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3183-5671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sun, sea, and sexism on Love Island
In the summer of 2022, Twitter (now X) users took to their platform to highlight the “lad culture” and misogynistic actions of the men contestants on Season 8 of the reality show Love Island. In this article, we examine their interpretations of two aspects of lad culture—“banter” and the “lads’ holiday”—and associated misogyny. We found that Twitter users who watched Love Island had a complex relationship with banter. Some valorised it as an impo…
Beyond the manosphere
The manosphere is a loose network of anti-feminist and more broadly reactionary male-centred online spaces, influencers and communities. A range of scholars, activists, practitioners and policy makers have turned their attention to generating strategies aimed at countering the misogynistic reactionary ideologies that boys and young men influenced by the manosphere are increasingly adopting. While great work is being undertaken in this space, what…
Post-Tate, post-truth, post-digital
Misogynistic and Homophobic 'Banter' in UK Digitised 'Lad Cultures
There is a growing scholarship which focuses on the effectiveness of interventions that aim to develop men's critical awareness of harmful norms of masculinity, including those associated with misogyny and homophobia. This paper makes a unique contribution to this literature by showing how qualitative research with young (18-25 years old) cisgender heterosexual men ( n = 42) about their digital homosocial practices, alongside relevant theory, und…
‘We’re respectful boys … we’re not misogynistic!’
Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers
This article explores the affective dynamics of researching boys’ views on gender inequalities, (anti)feminism and ‘misogyny influencers’ such as Andrew Tate. We interviewed boys (aged 13–14) who had participated in ‘rethinking masculinity’ workshops delivered by an educational charity at their school. Using an affective ethnographic approach, this article focuses on a particular research encounter, where boys expressed heightened misogyny and ho…
Mainstreaming the Manosphere's Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies
During the summer of 2022, Andrew Tate became a focus of concern for the media, parents, and educational leaders as his sexist and misogynistic social media content became popular with young people, especially boys. To explore Tate's appeal, we conducted a discourse and content analysis of Tate's videos and a small focus group study with boys aged 13-14 from London (United Kingdom). We found that apart from the obvious ways that Tate promotes men…
NoSnowflakes
In recent years, some political commentators and mainstream media outlets in the United Kingdom have pejoratively labelled young people, especially university students, a ‘snowflake generation’ – a term used to mock their perceived intolerance and over-sensitivity (Fox, 2016; Gullis, 2017; Slater, 2016; Talbot, 2020). This article challenges this discourse by drawing on findings from a large-scale study ( N = 810) conducted on a university campus…
‘I mean, in my opinion, I have it the worst, because I am white. I am male. I am heterosexual’
This paper critically examines how gendered hierarchies and relations, particularly those between hegemonic masculinities and non-hegemonic gendered identities, manifest between students at a university in North West England in and through forms of online harassment, using data collected from a large-scale study (N= 810) conducted in this institutional context. Key findings indicate that some young masculinities subordinate non-hegemonic gendered…
Do you wanna come with me
A key strategy of TV companies in the UK and US since the late 1990s, has been to create distinctive channel brands with flagship TV shows as brands that act to convey the channel’s brand values to audiences. Mainstream quality cult shows, including Doctor Who for the BBC and Game of Thrones for HBO, have conveyed something of the brand of their respective channels in the highly competitive multi-media global TV market. In this essay, I analyse s…
Steed as a drag queen and the asexual Number Six
From Scene to Screen
This article draws upon data from Reaching Out Online, a collaborative research project that explored the need for, and development of, a digital health outreach service for gay, bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM) in London and Brighton, United Kingdom. It identifies the challenges that commercial hook-up apps and other digitally based dating and sex services pose for conventional forms of gay men's health promotion. It then moves t…
Mainstreaming the Manosphere's Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies
During the summer of 2022, Andrew Tate became a focus of concern for the media, parents, and educational leaders as his sexist and misogynistic social media content became popular with young people, especially boys. To explore Tate's appeal, we conducted a discourse and content analysis of Tate's videos and a small focus group study with boys aged 13-14 from London (United Kingdom). We found that apart from the obvious ways that Tate promotes men…
From Scene to Screen
This article draws upon data from Reaching Out Online, a collaborative research project that explored the need for, and development of, a digital health outreach service for gay, bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM) in London and Brighton, United Kingdom. It identifies the challenges that commercial hook-up apps and other digitally based dating and sex services pose for conventional forms of gay men's health promotion. It then moves t…
Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers
This article explores the affective dynamics of researching boys’ views on gender inequalities, (anti)feminism and ‘misogyny influencers’ such as Andrew Tate. We interviewed boys (aged 13–14) who had participated in ‘rethinking masculinity’ workshops delivered by an educational charity at their school. Using an affective ethnographic approach, this article focuses on a particular research encounter, where boys expressed heightened misogyny and ho…
Misogynistic and Homophobic 'Banter' in UK Digitised 'Lad Cultures
There is a growing scholarship which focuses on the effectiveness of interventions that aim to develop men's critical awareness of harmful norms of masculinity, including those associated with misogyny and homophobia. This paper makes a unique contribution to this literature by showing how qualitative research with young (18-25 years old) cisgender heterosexual men ( n = 42) about their digital homosocial practices, alongside relevant theory, und…
Do you wanna come with me
A key strategy of TV companies in the UK and US since the late 1990s, has been to create distinctive channel brands with flagship TV shows as brands that act to convey the channel’s brand values to audiences. Mainstream quality cult shows, including Doctor Who for the BBC and Game of Thrones for HBO, have conveyed something of the brand of their respective channels in the highly competitive multi-media global TV market. In this essay, I analyse s…
From Scene to Screen
This article draws upon data from Reaching Out Online, a collaborative research project that explored the need for, and development of, a digital health outreach service for gay, bisexual men and men who have sex with men (MSM) in London and Brighton, United Kingdom. It identifies the challenges that commercial hook-up apps and other digitally based dating and sex services pose for conventional forms of gay men's health promotion. It then moves t…
Steed as a drag queen and the asexual Number Six
NoSnowflakes
In recent years, some political commentators and mainstream media outlets in the United Kingdom have pejoratively labelled young people, especially university students, a ‘snowflake generation’ – a term used to mock their perceived intolerance and over-sensitivity (Fox, 2016; Gullis, 2017; Slater, 2016; Talbot, 2020). This article challenges this discourse by drawing on findings from a large-scale study ( N = 810) conducted on a university campus…
‘I mean, in my opinion, I have it the worst, because I am white. I am male. I am heterosexual’
This paper critically examines how gendered hierarchies and relations, particularly those between hegemonic masculinities and non-hegemonic gendered identities, manifest between students at a university in North West England in and through forms of online harassment, using data collected from a large-scale study (N= 810) conducted in this institutional context. Key findings indicate that some young masculinities subordinate non-hegemonic gendered…
Do you wanna come with me
A key strategy of TV companies in the UK and US since the late 1990s, has been to create distinctive channel brands with flagship TV shows as brands that act to convey the channel’s brand values to audiences. Mainstream quality cult shows, including Doctor Who for the BBC and Game of Thrones for HBO, have conveyed something of the brand of their respective channels in the highly competitive multi-media global TV market. In this essay, I analyse s…
‘We’re respectful boys … we’re not misogynistic!’
Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers
This article explores the affective dynamics of researching boys’ views on gender inequalities, (anti)feminism and ‘misogyny influencers’ such as Andrew Tate. We interviewed boys (aged 13–14) who had participated in ‘rethinking masculinity’ workshops delivered by an educational charity at their school. Using an affective ethnographic approach, this article focuses on a particular research encounter, where boys expressed heightened misogyny and ho…
Mainstreaming the Manosphere's Misogyny Through Affective Homosocial Currencies
During the summer of 2022, Andrew Tate became a focus of concern for the media, parents, and educational leaders as his sexist and misogynistic social media content became popular with young people, especially boys. To explore Tate's appeal, we conducted a discourse and content analysis of Tate's videos and a small focus group study with boys aged 13-14 from London (United Kingdom). We found that apart from the obvious ways that Tate promotes men…
Post-Tate, post-truth, post-digital
Misogynistic and Homophobic 'Banter' in UK Digitised 'Lad Cultures
There is a growing scholarship which focuses on the effectiveness of interventions that aim to develop men's critical awareness of harmful norms of masculinity, including those associated with misogyny and homophobia. This paper makes a unique contribution to this literature by showing how qualitative research with young (18-25 years old) cisgender heterosexual men ( n = 42) about their digital homosocial practices, alongside relevant theory, und…
Sun, sea, and sexism on Love Island
In the summer of 2022, Twitter (now X) users took to their platform to highlight the “lad culture” and misogynistic actions of the men contestants on Season 8 of the reality show Love Island. In this article, we examine their interpretations of two aspects of lad culture—“banter” and the “lads’ holiday”—and associated misogyny. We found that Twitter users who watched Love Island had a complex relationship with banter. Some valorised it as an impo…
Beyond the manosphere
The manosphere is a loose network of anti-feminist and more broadly reactionary male-centred online spaces, influencers and communities. A range of scholars, activists, practitioners and policy makers have turned their attention to generating strategies aimed at countering the misogynistic reactionary ideologies that boys and young men influenced by the manosphere are increasingly adopting. While great work is being undertaken in this space, what…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Masculinity (4 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)