The oh-so awkward interview with the creator of documentary The Red Pill.

Her controversial men's rights documentary was banned from screening in Melbourne due to heated protests, Netflix won't show it, and other cinema's around the world have banned it.

But when Cassie Jaye - creator of The Red Pill - appeared on The Project she said she didn't understand the extreme reactions to it in Australia. "I'm curious what is different about Australia that makes this topic so polarising and so fearful to people that they want to shut it down and silence it and pull it from theatres," the American said.

We speak to director Cassie Jaye about her film ‘The Red Pill’ and the discussion surrounding it in Australia. #TheProjectTV pic.twitter.com/J2BSqtnjw8 — #TheProjectTV (@theprojecttv) June 8, 2017

Carrie Bickmore, clearly not impressed with Jaye's work, suggested it was due to the issue of domestic violence.

"A couple of years ago our Australian of the Year was a mum who lost her only son at the hands of his father in a domestic violence incident," Bickmore said. "One woman is killed every week at the hands of domestic violence. It's really on the agenda here in Australia. It's not tolerated and we're really trying to move forward and get on a path where women aren't dying. "I think that is why your film has hit a nerve."

Jaye, who said she was unaware of that incident, said it showed that there are also male victims of domestic violence.

Cue awkward silence.

The tense interview wasn't going that well and her response didn't make things any better. That's when Waleed Aly stepped in.

"Sorry, that's the lesson you took from that?," he asked. "The point I think a lot of people take from that is that the violence was perpetrated by a man in that situation as it overwhelmingly is particularly in cases where there's a fatality."

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Bickmore then asked Jaye why she didn't address rape culture more in depth in the film. She noted one male activist Paul Elam, who claims that women want to be raped.

"I did ask them about that. I have 100 hours of footage and the film is two hours long," she said, adding that a lot of their comments had been taken out of context. She also said she hopes people who see the film focus on what is in it rather than what was left out. And on rape culture she said she didn't believe she could give the adequate time that is needed to explore the issue.

Jaye, a former feminist, says she has left feminism and thinks that too many feminists have blinkers on.

If you haven't seen it the film chronicles Jaye's journey into the men's rights movement and professes to take a "balanced approach", documenting Jaye's "life-altering journey where she would never see the world the same way again". But it has been widely denounced as misogynist and criticised for giving a platform to extremists such as Daryush Valizadeh, a neo-masculinist writer whose biographical postings include "When No Means Yes".

The reactions on Twitter to Jaye's film were equally mixed

How can it be OK to say men are OPPRESSED, when the ratio of female partner killers,is SO disparate, as to be RIDICULOUS! #TheProjectTV — Christine Whybrow (@christine_w56) June 8, 2017

1 woman killed per week by domestic violence is 1 too many. #TheProjectTV — Kate V (@Kater27) June 8, 2017

Let's not make it an 'either or' situation - both genders have problems, dismissing them doesn't help #TheProjectTV — John Loy 💭 (@johnwloy) June 8, 2017