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This book details many radical feminist myths and barefaced lies, and explores the damage radical feminism has wrought on relationships and the family in our Western world. It often does this with some humour, but its message is very serious.

Like so many women of my age I became involved in the very early days of the newly emerging women’s movement and I would have called myself an ‘equity’ feminist. I was interested in making sure that men and women could compete with each other on a level playing field. Radical feminists are now – as they were then – different from the majority of feminists, and they’re highly unrepresentative of women in general. They hate men and they want equality of gender outcomes at any cost, regardless of what men and women choose to do in their personal and working lives.

I was rapidly disillusioned when I recognised that the women’s movement was never meant to be a movement for most women. It was an attempt by militant women in the Marxist movement to wrest power from men and to create a movement of their own. They simply moved the political goalposts and instead of capitalism being the enemy it was now patriarchy i.e. all men. It didn’t take them long to hijack the entire domestic violence debate and use the money to fill their coffers and state that ‘all women are victims of male violence.’

Mike Buchanan is a very brave man. I’ve known other men who’ve tried to draw the public’s attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find publishers for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of sexually abusing their children. The legitimate interests of men in Western society have been systematically assaulted by radical feminists, as this book explains.

Men are starting to campaign more effectively for their interests, though they still have a long way to go before they halt the tide of feminist influence, let alone start to reverse it.

Feminists can expect more challenges from another quarter. With every year that passes, more women are becoming aware of the damage that men-hating and family-hating feminists have wrought (and continue to wreak) on society in general, and on women’s interests in particular. An increasing number of women are summoning up the courage to openly criticise feminists. This shouldn’t surprise us, given that the vast majority of women don’t share the feminists’ political ideology.

How much more damage will radical feminists be allowed to wreak before they’re more widely recognised as the evil women they are?

Erin Pizzey

London, 23 January 2012

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