Slate published an article from two feminists whining that Movember “celebrated masculinity” in order to fight cancer. They meant it as a criticism. They wrote: “Are we grumpy contrarians and feminist killjoys who hate things precisely because other people love them? Probably, but…” Well, at least they have some self-awareness, that’s rare for feminists these days.
Testicular cancer is also one of the few men’s diseases with a grassroots awareness campaign, #CockInASock. It’s fairly self-explanatory, especially if you’re familiar with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and receives wide praise in Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Articles show chiseled men exposing most of their body to raise awareness. VICE published an article condemning #CockInASock as an “inane counterpart” to the breast cancer awareness #nomakeupselfie, and claimed, “Without exception, everyone who’s doing it is a douchebag.”76
Fashionista celebrated the “objectification of the male form” but complained that the common sight of pubic hair exposed a sexist double standard (men don’t have to shave and women do).77 Once again, feminists were taking a male advocacy campaign and trying to make it all about them and their hair problems.
The University of York’s equality and diversity committee announced they would mark International Men’s Day with an event addressing men’s issues, particularly suicide. A campaign from more than 200 activist students and professors demanded the event be cancelled. “We believe that men’s issues cannot be approached in the same way as unfairness and discrimination towards women, because women are structurally unequal to men,” said an open letter. The University of York quickly complied and cancelled the celebration.
This happened less than 24 hours after a male student at York killed himself.78
As the examples above demonstrate, we are living in an era when much of the feminism on display to the public is petty, mean-spirited, obsessed with trivialities, man-hating and implacably opposed to free expression. When men try to talk about their problems—not something many men are comfortable doing in the first place—they are treated with indifference, anger, or scorn by feminists.
Hatred has engulfed the politics of the Left. Socialists hate the financially successful. LGBT activists hate fundamentalist Christians. Black Lives Matter hate police officers. Fat people hate skinny people, like me and Ann Coulter. But none of these groups hate with the PMS-fueled pettiness of feminism. Here are a few more examples. In 2015, British student activist Bahar Mustafa was pictured beneath a sign on a door reading “no white-cis-men pls,” while she made a faux tearful gesture beneath it. She had already attracted controversy for banning “cis-gendered”79 white males from the screening of a film at her university’s student union, of which she then was a representative.
The incident occurred just as the mainstream press became aware of the return of segregation on campuses, under the guise of “safe spaces” for women and minorities. As the press dug through Mustafa’s history, they found tweets in which she used #KillAllWhiteMen and #WhiteTrash. Moderate liberals and establishment conservatives alike huffed and puffed.
Mustafa was eventually put on trial for hate speech, a ridiculous charge for which she was eventually cleared. As odious as Mustafa’s opinions were, it’s better they were out in the open, rather than have her Gone Girl some poor unsuspecting chap.
Mustafa wasn’t the first of her kind—she was just the first the media took notice of. The “nu-feminist,” or “fourth-wave feminist” Left has been running rampant for years, often with the tolerance and even tacit approval of the establishment. Mustafa was set upon because she was an easy target; less easy a target was Jessica Valenti, who proudly posed for pictures wearing a sweater bearing the slogan “I BATHE IN MALE TEARS” more than a full year before that. The picture was taken at the beach but luckily for all, it was cropped so you only saw a smidge of her fat legs.
Valenti is a columnist at The Guardian and therefore considered a protected class by other journalists. No one should ever be investigated for hate speech, as Mustafa was, but it’s clear from the example of Valenti, who once wrote the headline, “Feminists Don’t Hate Men, but it Wouldn’t Matter if We Did,” that feminists today are in no way concerned about equality of the sexes.
Many will say I’ve written far worse than Valenti. I have! But I’m not trying to lead a self-proclaimed equality movement. The only cause I represent is that of free speech, where I consider myself part of a long line of boundary-pushers who shocked the mainstream, from Andres Serrano of Piss Christ fame to George Carlin. If I were the leader of an egalitarian movement, it would deserve to be unpopular!
The problem with feminists isn’t that they’re hateful and outrageous, it’s that they’re hateful and outrageous while claiming to be just, moral, caring, and egalitarian. Plus almost everything that comes out of their mouths is a blatant lie, which will be covered up by more lies and screeching insults if you dare to call them out on it.
LIARS
On November 14, 2014, Rolling Stone published the now-infamous article, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.” It told the story of Jackie, a female student at University of Virginia, who claimed to have been repeatedly raped by members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
I heard voices and I started to scream and someone pummeled into me and told me to shut up. And that’s when I tripped and fell against the coffee table and it smashed underneath me and this other boy, who was throwing his weight on top of me. Then one of them grabbed my shoulders… One of them put his hand over my mouth and I bit him – and he straight-up punched me in the face… One of them said, ‘Grab its motherfucking leg.’ As soon as they said it, I knew they were going to rape me.80
Horrifying. It almost sounds too gruesome and sadistic to be true.
Well, that’s because it wasn’t.
Within days of publication, the story began to unravel. Journalist Richard Bradley first began to raise questions about the story on his personal blog, followed by conservative pundit Steve Sailer. Bradley pointed out that Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the Rolling Stone journalist who wrote the story, failed to identify or reach out to any of the men who, according to Jackie, repeatedly raped her. Nor did she appear to have identified or communicated with two friends of Jackie’s, who allegedly corroborated her story.
The Washington Post eventually did track down the two “corroborators,” only to receive a completely different account from them. They told the Post they felt Jackie had “manipulated” them, and that they had requested their names be taken out of the Rolling Stone article, to no avail. It also emerged that Rolling Stone had agreed, at Jackie’s request, not to contact any of her alleged attackers for their side of the story.