Nasty, misogynist influencer Myron Gaines reaches millions of impressionable young men with his “Fresh and Fit” podcast.

However, his most dedicated fans are treated to an even deeper dive into his anti-woman worldview via his self-published books: “Why Women Deserve Less” and the imaginatively titled 2026 follow-up “Why Women Deserve Even Less.”

So much for character development.

Mercifully, they’re only a flimsy 84 and 103 pages respectively. Inside they set out to help the reader avoid “wasting your resources on the unreciprocated romantic pursuit of women to the point it ruins your life.”

“The BIGGEST waste of time in a man’s life is women,” Gaines writes.

“Women have the insatiable desire for attention and will gladly dangle the prospect of sex in front of your face so they can suck away as much of your life as possible.”

This from a man who runs a podcast where women with an insatiable desire for attention dangle the prospect of sex in front of viewers, while he talks over them.

Frankly, the books are a ridiculous read, offering up advice like stop “being a girl’s emotional tampon,” whatever that means. But it’s an unfiltered peek into the ideology that feeds the fury of the manosphere and has earned Gaines millions of followers.

“Never forget that you are the one who is sane for simply wanting an obedient, pretty woman, and maybe some kids,” he writes. ‘It’s society that’s lost its mind to shame you for that.”

More than 1,000 people have reviewed the first book on Amazon, giving it a shining 4.7 out of 5 stars. “A fine addition to the library, a must have for young and older men,” one user wrote. And another, “My eyes are open about the things which I somehow knew but never wanted to admit.”

What sort of wisdom are they finding in the pages? It’s even more toxic than the titles suggest.

Gaines waxes poetic about a long-gone time when “women had to find a man and keep him happy” and “had to dote on men, cook for men, have sex with men (even if they didn’t want to) and take care of men, all of this lest they cared to die.” Yep, die!

He laments that “just as the days of horse-drawn artillery are gone, so too are the days of simply hitting the gym, putting on a nice shirt, and asking that cute girl online out for a date,” because “you are fighting in 2026.”

“Where sweet, kind, feminine women once were, we now have vapid, arrogant, vindictive, and mean women today,” he claims.

The books are intended for men, and no self-respecting woman would read them by choice. If she did, she’d find it laughable but also alarming. As ridiculous as it the books may be, there is a legitimate subset of young men who consider this sort of manosphere drivel to be forbidden wisdom.

To prove how “disinterested women are in working real jobs and supporting society,” he lists the most predominantly female lines of work in the United States, the first of which is preschool and kindergarten teachers. Because who needs them, right?

But perhaps the most problematic feature of his worldview is the way it advises young, predominantly teen male audiences that relationships with women are a net negative, making them suspicious of finding love and forming a family — and ultimately encouraging them to be alone and resentful.

“Without women or children in your life there is only one thing left to live for — yourself. And this has been the whole point of this book,” Gaines writes. How fulfilling!

While it’s hard to see how anyone could actually have such a dim worldview, it’s not all bluff. Gaines walks the walk, living for himself while giving women the bare minimum.

During a cameo in Netflix documentary “Inside the Manosphere” with Louis Theroux, he appears with his girlfriend, Angie, bragging about their “one-way monogamy” dynamic, meaning she can only be with him but he can have relations with as many women as he wants.

Her ambivalence about the dynamic was evident in her face on screen. And, sure enough, they’ve reportedly since broken up — proof that living for yourself and disrespecting women only ultimately leaves you bitter and alone.

Or, worse yet, it can land you in jail. “Why Women Deserve Less” is dedicated to a list of manosphere influencers who live by its philosophy, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, currently in custody for possible extradition on sex trafficking charges.

Gaines’s lack of effort — like a first chapter entirely lifted from another book written by someone else — is proof of how little he respects his fans.

The series is a recycled tangle of his “insights” from his podcasts and videos, clearly thrown together to make a quick buck.

For all the toxicity, Gaines does make one very legitimate point: he argues that male-female relations have been so fundamentally turned on their head by a whole number of sociological changes, like dating apps, birth control, feminism, and shifting norms, as to be rendered unrecognizable.

The result is a dating scene that’s confused, miserable, and dysfunctional. This is all true. His mistake is framing it as an “us-versus-them” problem. Gaines literally refers to women as “they” throughout his books.

What he misses is that women aren’t the “bad guys” in the search for love. Men and women are not enemies. They’re fellow travelers in a radically transformed romantic world.

Finding love today is difficult and confusing for everyone. And treating the other sex as the enemy only makes matters worse. But Gaines has learned that nothing is as lucrative as telling boys that the world is stacked against them.