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UrbanDox is a conspiracy theorist and a major figure among men’s rights groups. UrbanDox gives an interview with Tunde in which he confesses that he believes the women will eventually try to kill most of the men because they don’t need as many women as men to continue the human race. Tunde is deeply skeptical of UrbanDox, particularly because his manifestos are often used by male terrorist groups as motivation to carry out bombings and other terrorist acts. Towards the end of the novel, Tunde becomes especially resentful of UrbanDox because he diverts attention and causes people to focus on the extremist side of men’s rights groups and ignore the actual injustices that are befalling men in Bessapara.
UrbanDox Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by UrbanDox or refer to UrbanDox. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 47 Quotes
When the historians talk of this moment they talk about “tensions’’ and “global instability.” They posit the “resurgence of old structures” and the “inflexibility of existing belief patterns.” Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her.
When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised. To the woman with a skein, everything looks like a fight.
UrbanDox says: Do it.
Margot says: Do it.
Awadi-Atif says: Do it.
Mother Eve says: Do it.
And can you call back the lightning? Or does it return to your hand?
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UrbanDox Character Timeline in The Power
The timeline below shows where the character UrbanDox appears in The Power. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 17: Allie
...but Eve has paid the police off—the user says that this has been proven by UrbanDox.
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Chapter 21: Tunde
An email comes in from info@urbandoxspeaks.com. The email is from UrbanDox himself, saying that he saw Tunde’s reporting in Arizona and Delhi and they want him...
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Tunde is driven blindfolded to the interview. When he meets UrbanDox, he finds a white man in his mid-fifties with bleached blond hair and blue eyes....
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...to argue, knowing that there have been women who’ve protected him the last few years. UrbanDox says that they do that to confuse him, so that he doesn’t only think of...
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UrbanDox continues, repeating that the women want to kill all of the men. When Tunde brings...
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UrbanDox then asks Tunde to join their movement. He says that they need laws to protect...
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Chapter 29: Tunde
...pack. He turns on the TV and sees another story about domestic terrorism in Idaho. UrbanDox has successfully changed the story: these groups are now the only thing that people associate...
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Chapter 44
...man that it might contain nude pictures. He decides to take the items back to UrbanDox.
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