Stoicism isn’t just for men – despite what the manosphere would tell you

By John Sellars, Reader in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London

Stoicism has attracted all sorts of fans over recent years, but one group whose interest in this ancient philosophy has attracted a good deal of comment is the “manosphere”.

In her 2018 book Not all Dead White Men, on classics, misogyny and the digital age, the American classicist Donna Zuckerberg noted with some concern that “the men of the manosphere have a deep fascination with Stoic philosophy.” She makes clear how these online spaces use extracts from Stoic works to argue that women are psychologically…

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