Pauline Harmange wrote about living in a man-centred world. She's since received rape and death threats and had her literary debut, derided as a 'genocidal moral project', translated into 17 languages.
The feminist and author Pauline Harmange. She is adjusting to the success and backlash of her debut book, "I Hate Men," one of a handful of titles from France that suggest a more frank approach to sexism and gender violence. The New York Times
If it hadn't been for a man, Pauline Harmange's literary debut, I Hate Men, might have gone unnoticed.
The feminist essay, which makes a case for shunning men as a legitimate defence mechanism against widespread misogyny, was initially published in French by the non-profit press Monstrograph. It only printed 400 copies. On the day it was released in August, however, an employee of France's Ministry for Gender Equality, Ralph Zurmély, emailed Monstrograph from his government account.
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