For the first time, the advocacy nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center has included male supremacy groups to their annual hate list, released today. Paul Elam’s "A Voice for Men" and Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh’s "Return of Kings" are the two active groups added to the roundup of hate groups which includes organizations which attack or malign an entire class of people.

"Male supremacy is a hateful ideology advocating for the subjugation of women. It misrepresents all women as genetically inferior, manipulative and stupid and reduces them to their reproductive or sexual function — with sex being something that they owe men and that can or even should be coerced out of them," reads a new report from SPLC obtained by ELLE.com. "Their thinly veiled desire for the domination of women and their conviction that the current system oppresses men in favor of women are the unifying tenets of the male supremacist worldview."



The report points out that male supremacy has resulted in violence and refers to a 2016 Vox story which shows how the sexism of the so-called "alt right" lures men into the racism of white supremacy.

"Like white supremacy, male supremacy is driven by fear and anger at the loss of white male status," the new SPLC report says.

One of the new groups added to the hate list is "A Voice for Men," which has called for October to be named “Bash-A-Violent-Bitch Month.” The second organization, "Return of Kings," was founded by so-called "pick-up artist" Valizadeh, who has advocated for the legalization of rape on private property, according to the report.

SPLC has been monitoring these two hate groups since 2012 and, now that they're officially on the hate list, will continue to monitor them and other groups in the movement.



Kate Storey Esquire Writer-at-Large Kate Storey is a Writer-at-Large for Esquire covering culture, politics, and style.

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