Overview
- Publishing its annual report, the Haut Conseil à l’Égalité urges the government to treat masculinism as a public-security issue and to adopt a national prevention and response strategy.
- The body recommends integrating "misogynist terrorism" into security doctrines with intelligence services trained to decode manosphere rhetoric and recruitment methods.
- The report calls for tighter platform oversight and increased resources for Pharos, the illegal-content reporting platform, and Arcom, the media regulator.
- HCE notes France is lagging behind countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, which already fold misogynistic or gendered extremism into counter-extremism frameworks.
- Citing recent signals of risk, the report points to France’s first incel-linked terrorism case against an 18-year-old in Saint-Étienne and to data showing rapid youth exposure on TikTok and YouTube, alongside survey findings of widespread hostile and paternalistic sexism.