and to Professor Stefan Priebe and Dr Alfonso Ceccherini-Nelli for their illuminating paper on the subject.
My final thanks to you, for buying this book. I hope it at least meets your expectations. I should be interested to read your opinions in relation to any of the topics covered in it, and invite you to contact me at [email protected]. Alternatively, feel free to comment on any of the posts in my related blog:
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FOREWORD
This book details many radical feminist myths and barefaced lies, and explores the damage radical feminism has wrought on relationships and the family in our Western world. It often does this with some humour, but its message is very serious.
Like so many women of my age I became involved in the very early days of the newly emerging women’s movement and I would have called myself an ‘equity’ feminist. I was interested in making sure that men and women could compete with each other on a level playing field. Radical feminists are now – as they were then – different from the majority of feminists, and they’re highly unrepresentative of women in general. They hate men and they want equality of gender outcomes at any cost, regardless of what men and women choose to do in their personal and working lives.
I was rapidly disillusioned when I recognised that the women’s movement was never meant to be a movement for most women. It was an attempt by militant women in the Marxist movement to wrest power from men and to create a movement of their own. They simply moved the political goalposts and instead of capitalism being the enemy it was now patriarchy i.e. all men. It didn’t take them long to hijack the entire domestic violence debate and use the money to fill their coffers and state that ‘all women are victims of male violence.’
Mike Buchanan is a very brave man. I’ve known other men who’ve tried to draw the public’s attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find publishers for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of sexually abusing their children. The legitimate interests of men in Western society have been systematically assaulted by radical feminists, as this book explains.
Men are starting to campaign more effectively for their interests, though they still have a long way to go before they halt the tide of feminist influence, let alone start to reverse it.
Feminists can expect more challenges from another quarter. With every year that passes, more women are becoming aware of the damage that men-hating and family-hating feminists have wrought (and continue to wreak) on society in general, and on women’s interests in particular. An increasing number of women are summoning up the courage to openly criticise feminists. This shouldn’t surprise us, given that the vast majority of women don’t share the feminists’ political ideology.
How much more damage will radical feminists be allowed to wreak before they’re more widely recognised as the evil women they are?
Erin Pizzey
London, 23 January 2012
INTRODUCTION
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, free trade champion, pacifist and social critic
On the evening of 15 September 2011 two women were being interviewed by Gavin Esler on the BBC’s flagship television news programme Newsnight. One was the dour feminist Labour politician Angela Eagle (née Eaglet). She’d obviously chewed on a thick slice of lemon before the interview, to set her customary expression. The other was Charlotte Vere, a businesswoman and former prospective Parliamentary candidate for the Conservative party for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. The seat was unfortunately won by a green MP, Caroline Lucas, presumably green for the reason outlined in a chapter of this book, ‘Why are fat women fat?’
I cheered Ms Vere upon hearing her state the following in a piece recorded to camera before the interview:
‘I think feminism is a toxic, battle-hardened and arrogant philosophy which has been manipulated by those at the extremes of politics. Feminism has had its day. We need women to stand up and shout, ‘Feminism? Not in my name!’ ’
At last, I thought, at long last… people are starting to get it!
A warm welcome to Feminism: The Ugly Truth. I should start with a few words about terminology. In her book Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (1994) Christina Hoff Sommers made a useful distinction between ‘equity’ feminists who campaign for equality of opportunities, and ‘gender’ feminists who seek special treatment for women with a view to gaining advantage over men. She herself is in the former camp.
In a sense, aren’t we all equity feminists now? Women have worked hard and achieved so much in the workplace and elsewhere that very few people in developed countries in the modern era wouldn’t support equality of opportunity. But I don’t know a single person (other than through email correspondence) who advocates equality of outcomes – in senior executive positions, say – regardless of the relative numbers of men and women able and willing to undertake those positions. Yet equality of outcomes remains a key feminist objective, and feminists are making relentless progress towards that goal.
This isn’t about gender equality, it’s about relentless special treatment for women. Feminists aren’t troubled when women enjoy superiority of outcomes, as they now do in a growing number of fields. How do a small number of feminists, in a modern democracy, manage to exert so much influence over legislative and public policy agendas? This book seeks to answer that question, along with many others.
For the avoidance of doubt the focus of this book is on gender feminism, often termed militant feminism or radical feminism. From this point onwards I shall use the word ‘feminism’ for the ideology, and the word ‘feminists’ for its adherents. It’s these feminists – who constitute a small but highly influential proportion of feminists – who are having such a dire impact in so many areas. Where I’m making a point about equity feminism I’ll make it clear I’m doing so.
Feminism has at its core five elements: misandry (hatred of men), fantasies, lies, delusions and myths. I believe the female mind is more naturally inclined to love than to hate, one of the many reasons women tend to be a civilising force in society. But when the female mind is persuaded to adopt hatred as a core value – a requirement of feminism – then the results can be ugly.
Feminism attracts little serious opposition in the developed world, which is extraordinary given that it’s systematically and progressively assaulting men, women, marriage, the family, government, the legal system, the media, academia, capitalism and much else. It’s killing men in large numbers through depriving them of employment. It’s killing women, albeit in lesser numbers, by forcing them to go against their natural instincts and rely on the world of work for their economic survival. It’s a leading cause of misery and mental health problems in both men and women, but mostly in women. It’s arguably the most dangerous ‘ism’ in the developed world today, following the widespread defeat of fascism and communism in the 20th century.
I’ll be using the term ‘Leftie’ as both a noun and an adjective. In the United Kingdom it’s become a term denoting ‘left-of-centre’ politically. The equivalent term in North America and elsewhere might be ‘Liberal’ but in the United Kingdom that word means something more nuanced, albeit still left-of-centre on most issues. The UK, in common with many countries in Europe, has had numerous Leftie administrations since the Second World War, but few as incompetent as the one in power over 1997-2010, led in