The Roosh V. Welcoming Party will take place tonight at 8pm at the Vancouver Public Library. To learn more, visit the Official Roosh V Welcoming Party event page on Facebook .

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Jen Kim and Emily Monaghan -- members of a Vancouver-based activist group called the Guerilla Feminist Collective -- about what Roosh symbolizes and why they decided to organize what they called a "Welcoming Party" in response to the planned meetups.

Roosh V. , a man widely known as a "pickup artist," who espouses a particularly extreme version of misogyny (recently advocating for legalized rape), had planned a number of meetups for his followers around the world. After widespread protest, the meetups were, supposedly, cancelled . But that doesn't mean the misogynist views supported by men like Roosh and his followers were quashed…

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