Gloria Steinem died trusting that the arc of women's liberation would bend forward without her — a faith forged across more than fifty years of movement-building. Yet the world she leaves behind is one where that arc is contested not merely by inertia but by organized, algorithmically amplified opposition. The manosphere has given millions of young men a counter-narrative to feminism, one that spreads with the speed and precision of modern platforms. Whether the next generation can sustain Steinem's vision in this fractured landscape is among the defining social questions of the decade.