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Southern’s buddy, activist Brittany Sellner, also does boffo on social media.

Inside the movement, women on the outside are slagged as “normies” become “red-pilled” when they join the movement. The concept is taken from 1999 sci-fi smash The Matrix.

“Women usually climb up the rungs [of groups] really quickly,” Ebner said. “They get a lot of attention from the male fan base and are almost fetishized… that can be an incentive.”

One former Canadian neo-Nazi, Elisa Hategan, said joining the extremists can give a woman a big ego boost.

There are a lot more men than women so the odds are in the female’s favour.

“Their leaders understood that a message of xenophobia and hate was much more palatable if it came from the mouth of an innocuous, innocent-looking teenage girl,” Hategan said.

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As a member of the notorious Heritage Front, she learned how to fire a gun, terrorize anti-racist activists and most importantly — how to dress and behave.

“[I was told] to dress more provocatively,” she said.

“To wear my hair down and keep it long. To flirt with potential recruits in order to get donations.”

And the ratio of men to women?

She adds: “Probably 10-to-1.”

Southern, 24, has lambasted Islam, immigration, feminism, Black Lives Matter and claims “there is no rape culture in the West”.

She is barred from the UK.

All that aside, she still has fans.

One woman wrote on her Instagram page: “You are my role model, someday o wish to be like you, a strong, beautiful, smarrrttt. Human being (sic).”

Another tweeted: “You inspired me to get into politics.”

Southern’s pal Brittany Sellner has been called a “White Power Barbie” and also holds strident anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant views.

Sellner and her husband Martin, a former neo-Nazi, look more like Queen St. W. hipsters than hate preachers.

But looks can be deceiving.