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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Honey-pots, femme fatales, offers they cannot refuse, yes, now for the alt-right.

Reportage at Journal Pioneer [journalpioneer.com]

The oldest adage in marketing is that sex sells.

Extreme right-wing groups in the UK are using hate “Barbies” to lure in young men, the UK Sun reports [thesun.co.uk].

Traditionally, the extreme right has been nearly exclusively the sole domain of men.

No more.

Heroines like blond Canadian one-time media personality Lauren Southern are rock stars in the alt-right movement. She has a whopping 170,000 followers on Instagram.

And women like Southern are luring in female believers, the newspaper reports.

For some disaffected young women, Southern, et al. have become role models and promising lots of male attention, a lux lifestyle and a community of like-minded “sisters.”

Far-right extremist expert Julia Ebner told the UK Sun that the poster girls for hate are “almost like Instagram models”.

“By having women, [groups] can paint themselves as being more socially acceptable and less of a threat to society”, Ebner said.

Southern’s buddy, activist Brittany Sellner, also does boffo on social media.

Boffo. British, I take it.

One former Canadian neo-Nazi, Elisa Hategan, said joining the extremists can give a woman a big ego boost.

There are a lot more men than women so the odds are in the female’s favour.

“Their leaders understood that a message of xenophobia and hate was much more palatable if it came from the mouth of an innocuous, innocent-looking teenage girl,” Hategan said.

As a member of the notorious Heritage Front, she learned how to fire a gun, terrorize anti-racist activists and most importantly — how to dress and behave.

“[I was told] to dress more provocatively,” she said.

“To wear my hair down and keep it long. To flirt with potential recruits in order to get donations.”

And the ratio of men to women?

She adds: “Probably 10-to-1.”

Southern, 24, has lambasted Islam, immigration, feminism, Black Lives Matter and claims “there is no rape culture in the West”.

She is barred from the UK.

No accounting for taste, or as the Romans said, "THOT gustibus non disputandum." And Australians have no use for Barbies if you cannot throw another shrimp on them.

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