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Losing at home, U. Known to most Americans only as a humid cruise ship stopover, Belize is most often visited for its stunning coral reefs. But it is a key battle, and the stakes are high. For example, many manosphere pundits claim women are “oppressing” men, and that men need to be “awakened” to that reality.

The idea that a killing could be provoked by such talk is not so far out. The manosphere is a varied collection of sites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism. Their group discussions are often rooted in feelings.

Yet the idea of cultural Marxism was cooked up by American white supremacists to describe a convoluted leftist conspiracy to manipulate white-dominated societies into expanding rights for people of color, women, LGBT people and others. To some Belizeans, the derivation of this rhetoric is obvious.

He is so vulnerable, in fact, that his lawyers worry openly about having Orozco as the only plaintiff in their civil case — they need a back-up in the very possible event of his assassination. This legal contest is only the latest in a wider struggle that is simultaneously being waged in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.

The manosphere is intertwined with homophobia and transphobia, including gay and trans slurs, used as insults for men who are weak or are not alpha males. It is also part of an even larger international battle, with the United Nations increasingly pressuring nations including Belize to live up to commitments under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a treaty that took effect in and outlaws discrimination of many kinds.

A large number of these groups are based in the United States, where the Christian Right is increasingly losing its battle against gay rights, especially since the Lawrence v. On the other side is the government, including both the prime minister and the attorney general, and an alliance called Church Interested Parties CIP.

Ranged alongside those pro-criminalization forces are U. Most remarkable is its citation of U. Another U. Led by Patricia King, the ministry has been known to pray in mortuaries in an effort to raise the dead. For three years, a ferocious legal battle has been waged in this nation of some ,00 people over a criminal statute that can land men and women in prison for engaging in private acts between consenting adults of the same sex.

Even if misogyny is the goal of the manosphere, it also tolerates, amplifies, and breeds discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community. Involuntary celibates or “Incels” are a subculture of men who feel they are unable to find romantic or sexual partners despite wanting them.

Overturning Section 53 in Belize could lead to the upending of similar statutes in a dozen countries that also belong to the Commonwealth of former British colonies, particularly those in the Caribbean, where several countries are part of a single legal system that culminates in the Caribbean Court of Justice.

[1] Communities within the manosphere include men's rights activists (MRAs), [2] incels (involuntary celibates), [3] Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), [4] pick-up artists (PUA), [5] and fathers' rights groups. Texas Supreme Court case decriminalized gay sex. It also reiterated the longstanding U.

The Rev. The irony is rich. [6]. Violence aimed at gay people is endemic, according to reports, including one issued this March that also charged that much of that violence comes from police. Another report, this one released in March by the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance, found that LGBT people in Belize are routinely subjected to violence, some of it coming from law enforcement officials.

As discriminatory policies in the U. And Belize is just such a place. Other U. Moreover, the ADF is on record backing criminalization. It submitted an amicus brief in the Lawrence case supporting the U. One of the more remarkable aspects of the battle in Belize is how closely the anti-gay rhetoric employed there resembles U.

The Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, two of the largest Christian Right heavyweights in the United States, argued that criminalizing gay sex was a good way to protect marriage. Many of these U. They say gay people will live short lives, and that they molest children at rates way out of proportion to their numbers a particularly egregious, and false, allegation.

At a court appearance in May, he was protected by armed guards hired with funds provided by foreign sympathizers. The manosphere aims to address the concerns of men but often veers into toxic masculinity.