In front of the United Nations, Emma Warson promoted HeForShe with the following statement:

This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible. I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. For the record, feminism by definition is: “[Insert vague platitude here]

Rather than call out the misandrist notions of feminists and say they must stop, Emma Watson wants us to ignore feminist misandry and pretend it doesn’t exist by trotting out a platitude.

Now read a feminist article by Chelsea Summers titled The Year In Male Tears and decide for yourself if feminism is, or is not, “synonymous with man-hating.”



2014 was the year that misandry became chic. That January began with the reminder from Madeleine Holden, creator of Critique my Dick Pic, that “dick is abundant and low value,” a Tweet that resonated with the power of a 140-character manifesto. The movie release of Gone Girl and Taylor Swift’s video for “Blank Space” made misandry aspirational. Etsy samplers emblazoned with “men are scum” and Café Press mugs reading “male tears” proliferated. The year ended with feminazis opening their 2014 Misandmas presents with glee, finding copies of Bitch Planet and Bad Feminist. Then there were the thinkpieces analyzing the new misandry chic. Amanda Hess claimed that “ironic misandry functions like a stuck-out tongue pointed at a playground bully” in Slate. Jess Zimmerman took up the cry and informed men that they needed to get with misandry jokes because “not everything is about men’s comfort, not anymore.” And Time’s Sara Begley voiced the backlash, telling us, “inherent in this word ‘misandry’ is hatred,” as if that’s a bad look. On the whole, however, 2014’s misandry was flavored with wry bemusement and detached irony. But in 2015, misandry changed and chic got real. Misandry isn’t as simple as hating men. Just as misogyny is less a dislike of women and more a network of practice built on the oppression of women, misandry is a seething rage against patriarchal power, not just a dislike of men. And maybe it was born in irony, but it has hardened with [emoticons]



Emma Watson encourages men to embrace the platitude feminism pretends to be, but ignore the man-hating feminism truly is. As such, HeForShe is a hypocritical fraud. Until Ms. Watson embraces the man-hating that feminism truly is, and ignores the platitude feminism pretends to be, I will never support the movement.

That’s a real shame because if it embraced a little honesty, I think the movement could do some good. Until then, no doubt, it is feminist tears that will continue to flow like the Mississippi.