Family lawyers across Canada are bracing for a new wave of divorces driven not by infidelity, but by infopreneurs with ring lights. According to veteran divorce lawyer Ken Martell, the latest threat to marital stability is the so-called “manosphere” – a digital bro-cave where men are coached to treat empathy like a venereal disease.
“I used to see guys leave their wives for coworkers or yoga instructors,” Martell said. “Now they’re leaving because Andrew Tate told them doing the dishes is beta.”
The phenomenon has lawyers coining new terms like “emotional outsourcing” and “red pill irreconcilables.” Spouses cite everything from YouTube rants to alpha-male TikToks as the third party in their marriage.
“I lost my husband to a podcast,” said one woman. “He stopped talking to me and started quoting some guy named ‘The Rational Barbarian.’”
The courts remain unsure how to divide assets when one side insists real women are “NPCs.”
