Simon Cowell (Picture: ITV)

Simon Cowell has just found himself at the forefront of the meninist movement after claiming on Britain’s Got Talent that a female magician’s commentary on equality was ‘annoying’.

‘I get it, you’re a girl, and blah blah blah blah blah, I liked the legs,’ he began.

‘I get it – you don’t want to be the assistant you want to the magician, but after I while I thought “this is beginning to irritate me”.’

Meninism is a semi-satirical gender equality and men’s rights movement, and in recent years it has gone on to be widely used on social media to make jokes which mock and criticise radical feminism.


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So-called meninists oppose the perceived oppression that men allegedly face in the 21st century.



Simon’s comments fit right into the ethos of meninism, which suggests that women need to stop banging on about equality and that the push for fairness among genders has pushed men and their rights out of the public eye.

David Walliams and Alesha Dixon were left unimpressed (Picture: ITV)

But on the Britain’s Got Talent panel, his fellow judges were shocked by his comments.

‘A true feminist on the panel here,’ deadpanned David Walliams, while Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and Ant and Dec looked on in surprise.

Dec looked surprised (Picture; ITV)

The comments came after hopeful Josephine Lee performed a magician’s act that saw her focus on the need for tolerance in the magic community.

Her act saw her being forced into roles that the traditional magician’s assistant would have been told to do but her twist at the end left everyone wondering how the hell she had done it.

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