Clementine Prendergast

Clementine Prendergast writes about wellbeing, technology, and culture for British Vogue, and the Times. She is currently writing her first book about the coaching economy.

Is therapy culture to blame for the manosphere?

From our UK edition

There’s a moment in Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere where Theroux asks one of Andrew Tate’s protégés a simple question: why doesn’t he just try being a good person? Harrison Sullivan, known as HS, pauses. For the first time in the documentary, he’s thinking, not performing. ‘It’s a good question,’ he says. ‘If I’d just done good things, I’d never have blown up on social media...’ HS understands that he is in a world which rewards clout, not virtue. And that is exactly what the documentary fails to examine.