‘By having sons, we do feminism a great service.’ Ugh

The war on boys is now prosecuted by their own mothers and begins in the womb. It is a sick and sinister perversion of feminism, writes Miranda Devine.

“I had never wanted a son,” one feminist has declared. Excuse me, but what is so wrong with sons? (Pic: iStock)

Hateful bigotry against men has become not only acceptable, but desirable among women of a certain feminist class.

Take the horror expressed by feminist Jane Caro’s feminist daughter Polly Dunning when she realised she was pregnant with — shock, horror — a boy!

“I had never wanted a son. In fact, I had decidedly not wanted one. I wanted daughters, probably because I am one of two daughters and six granddaughters, no sons or grandsons. This seemed altogether to fit in with my feminism better,” she wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald.

And in a sentence that was later modified online to make it more palatable, she wrote:

“There were dark moments in the middle of the night... when I felt sick at the thought of something male growing inside me.”

What is sick is that Dunning and her mother think this sort of misandry is “clever and honest”.

Imagine the outcry if someone spoke like that about females, black people or LGBTI folk.

Please, don’t let it be a boy. (Pic: iStock)

I don’t care that Dunning goes on to say that the baby grew on her after he was born and she’s come to terms with the great tragedy of his maleness.

She only resolves her distress by vowing to turn her son into a “feminist boy”. She considers him to be some programmable tool to be used in a great social engineering project. “By having sons, we do feminism a great service.”

Ugh.

The war on boys is now prosecuted by their own mothers. It is a sick and sinister perversion of feminism. Ultimately, it does no one — male or female — any good.

And if it is to be stopped, it will take women with rational minds and pure hearts to stand against it, on behalf of all those poor boy babies being conscripted into a life of thankless servitude.

One such woman is American feminist filmmaker Cassie Jaye, 29, who set out to expose what she’d been led to believe was a misogynistic rape culture on campuses. She wanted to challenge men’s rights activists but instead was won over by their arguments.

Her thoughtful documentary, The Red Pill: a feminist’s journey into the Men’s Rights Movement, brings the viewer along on her slow realisation that the oppressive male patriarchy is a myth, that men don’t have all the power, and that the world is not divided into male perpetrators and female victims.

Jaye interviews the leaders of the Men’s Rights Movement including A Voice For Men founder Paul Elam, and Dr Warren Farrell, who turn out to be gentle rational men with wives and children.

Cassie Jaye is now an ex-feminist. (Pic: Ian Stroud)

The violent haters in her documentary are the deranged social justice warriors who haunt MRA gatherings and scream “f**king scum” and “rapist” in the faces of attendees and police. These aggressive women exhibit no restraint because they know that, by virtue of their sex, they won’t get the punch in the nose they deserve.

Most men, on the other hand, have been socialised from childhood into the self-protective discipline of understanding that violence begets violence. Femininity used to impose the same restraint on women, but of course that’s just more patriarchal oppression now.

“I have believed for so long that I’m at a disadvantage for being a woman and have to work harder than anyone else and have more to overcome and more to prove just because of my gender,” says Jaye, half way through the film, as the penny starts to drop.

But the MRAs she interviewed “are saying that’s all a lie... actually the more I learn from them the more I thank God I wasn’t born a guy because I don’t think the expectations on men are healthy...

“Men are given medals and statues and written in the history books to justify them dying and being slaves to work or being used to progress societies.”

By the end of her journey, Jaye had stopped calling herself a feminist. Her documentary is an antidote to the vicious misandry which is now the bread and butter of feminism.

Which of course is why feminists are in a frenzy to stop anyone watching it, by attacking her funding and then by bullying cinemas into refusing to screen the film.

A screening scheduled for the Western Sydney University in Bankstown last month had to be cancelled after protests that it was promoting “rape culture”, and the Brisbane screening planned for next week is under siege.

Melbourne’s Palace Cinema cancelled its screening in October after a social media backlash.

When the family-owned Ultima function centre in Keilor, northwest Melbourne, became the alternative venue, it too was targeted with threats on its Facebook page and “one star” reviews which manager Nicholas Georgiades said threatened his business.

Nicholas Georgiades was accused of "supporting misogynist propaganda" for hosting a private viewing of the film The Red Pill at his function centre on Boxing Day. (Pic: David Geraghty/The Australian)

He only agreed to screen the movie after watching it, “because I would never forgive myself if it did promote violence against women. It doesn’t, so we allowed the screening.”

But the abuse was frightening, with one woman threatening to “key” his car.

“I was panicking,” he said yesterday. “I thought what have I done.”

But, in the end, the community rallied around him and his Facebook page was overwhelmed with positive ratings for his business.

“People were fantastic. It restored my faith in humanity.”

He had to hire extra security for the screening on Boxing Day but the screening was a huge success.

You can’t buy such good publicity.