Abbie Chatfield's partner is often called a cuckold or a f-ggot while walking down the street.
"Men screaming at [Adam Hyde] on the street, 'You're a cuck, you're a faggot'... they're verbally abusing my partner because he loves a feminist," the podcaster says.
"That's manosphere shit.
"Everyone's like, 'Oh it's just guys in their basement', it's not. I have videos of these guys, it's guys that are going to the pub that are like in their early 30s, they're professionals."
Podcaster, influencer and former reality TV star, Abbie Chatfield wants everyone to realise exactly how alarming the manosphere is, so they can help her make fun of it.
Two years after her national Trauma Dump tour and with the continuing success of her podcast It's a Lot, Chatfield is returning to the capital with a new show to rescue men, and the women who love them.
Dealing with the backlash of being a vocal public presence who champions women's rights, Chatfield is all too familiar with the dark underworld taking over men's social media feeds.
"I'm hoping [my audience] can look at this manosphere content and still laugh at it, but not dismiss it as much and see like the real hideousness of it, the real core damaging aspects of it," she says.
"I've got a burner account, and I've been interacting and liking and re-sharing the misogynistic stuff that I've found, and the feed on that has gotten so crazy. I think it's nice for women to come and have a bit of escapism."
The screening of Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary has pushed conversations about misogyny and modern masculinity firmly into the spotlight, Chatfield says, after years of women raising the issue.
"People are more aware of [the manosphere], but I think that simultaneously, it's gotten so big that people have kind of given up on fighting back against it, because a lot of their stuff is just so nonsensical," she says.
"I'm not really seeing any change the way that we approach it, and in fact, these kind of manosphere-like figures have become more ... mainstream, because it's a part of a cultural shift."
Part of that cultural shift has been the growth of the far-right in Australian politics, with the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls.
The left-wing social media star, who has more than half a million Instagram followers, has been outspoken against Pauline Hanson's anti-immigration party and its "alternative facts".
"Whether or not One Nation ever come into power, the current culture has changed so much due to her, and due to the party, and due to Gina Rinehart, and due to all of this online vitriol and media attacks on people ... that I don't think it really matters if actual policy is going to be enacted," Chatfield says.
"What matters is the cultural change, and the cultural change comes from support of these parties."
Often painted by the right-wing media as a spokesperson for "woke" politics, Chatfield says the online hate from men and conservatives has been relentless.
Asked about comparisons to Karl Stefanovic and his infamous new podcast, which has interviewed politicians and agitators on the far-right of the political spectrum, Chatfield rejected the association.
"We have left-wing women often compared to men who are spewing violent rhetoric, or, like Karl, interviewing someone who's been charged with assault three times," she says.
"I'm not interviewing people that are charged with assault. I'm not interviewing people that have allegedly incited race riots.
"It's interesting that me dissecting Pauline Hanson's Press Club address and saying that climate change is not a hoax, is somehow seen as the same as that."
Is it possible to still love men amongst all the insanity? Chatfield has been with her partner Adam Hyde, half of Canberra DJ duo Peking Duk, for more than two years, and her new show, aptly titled Abbie Chatfield Loves Men, is all about her love, and worries, for the opposite sex.
To prove how much she loves the male species, The Canberra Times asked her to come up with something she loves about these famous (or not-so-famous) Canberra men.
International tennis player Nick Kyrgios: "Isn't there something about like whenever he's naughty on the field, you have to give the fine to charity?" she says. "I love that ... like hell yeah, get in trouble."
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr: Unfortunately Chatfield drew a blank for the ACT's top politician, but once told he was a light-rail advocate, she found inspiration.
"I also love a light rail, so let's just say that I love his light rail," she said.
Peking Duk's Adam Hyde: "Oh, I love everything about him. So talented, so beautiful, so funny, so smart, so kind and so Canberra, peak Canberra, my peak Canberra boys."
Abbie Chatfield Loves Men will be showing at the Canberra Theatre on July 29, tickets available online.
