Feminism is a Hate Movement: In Their Own Words
A Long History of Hate Being Spewed by Feminists
Last updated 5/30/2025
Tens of millions of people worldwide think that feminism is only about equality, but don’t have a clue about feminism’s true history and its dark, hateful side:
This post documents just some of the almost limitless number of hateful quotes made by feminists over the past two centuries. It will be amended from time-to-time as more quotes are discovered through additional research.
Note that this list doesn’t mean that all women — or even all feminists — support these hateful statements. Rather, too many feminists and the women they speak for refuse to renounce such hate speech:
“It isn't fair to judge a social movement by its few inevitable nutbars. But when the mainstream of the movement refuses to distance itself from extremist elements - when, in fact, it embraces them - there's a problem.” — Donna Laframboise, in her book The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics.
The Hate Began in 1848 at Seneca Falls
“At Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, as the fruit of one of the first official women’s rights conventions in the United States, 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments, an angry document written primarily by feminist activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a virago now celebrated as an early feminist foremother.
“The Declaration is filled with statements asserting the near-measureless brutality and injustice of the entire male sex towards the female, beginning with the document’s primary claim, astonishing in its vulgar malice, that “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.”
“That fire-breathing allegation is followed by a long list of dubious and often outright false claims, including that men have consistently persecuted women psychologically by “endeavor[ing] in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.” The statement was written at a time when many colleges had been established specifically for women’s education (contradicting another of the claims in the Declaration that “all colleges [were] closed against her”), when laws were being passed to protect married women’s property and other rights, and at a time when many women, with the full support of their fathers, husbands, and brothers, made respectable and lucrative careers for themselves as authors, educators, scholars, and businesswomen.
“There is nothing in the document to mitigate the mass condemnation of men or to suggest that biology or circumstances played any role in the social order of the time. There is nothing in the document to suggest that men ever acted justly or sacrificially to protect or provide for women, or to respond to their needs. The document launches an unmitigated smear campaign from first to last.
“The fact that men signed this self-condemnation gives the lie to the document’s assertions about male tyranny and lust for power. The fact that the document is celebrated today as the laudable beginning of the women’s “equality” movement in America and that it spawned many later women’s conventions, as well as much adulatory commemoration, demonstrates that both men and women of the time, and later, approved public expressions of fanatical and false anti-male condemnation.” — anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo, Men Have Been Psychologically Abused by Feminist Ideology For Decades
In a Category of Their Own:
Suzanna Danuta Walters
“Why can’t we hate men?” — an Opinion piece published in The Washington Post in 2018 by women’s studies professor Suzanna Danuta Walters. A sample passage:
“… it seems logical to hate men. I can’t lie, I’ve always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I’ve rankled at the “but we don’t hate men” protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the “men are not the problem, this system is” obfuscation too precious by half.”
Charlotte Proudman
Charlotte Proudman is a radical feminist and British barrister, described as a “self-absorbed, man-hating feminazi”, as corroborated by a long list of unhinged, hateful quotes about men and boys. Some examples:
“A classic act of gender aggression that’s normalized everywhere including public transport. Stop #manspreading. Reclaim your space, women.” — 2023 tweet
“What does it mean to live your life as a revolutionary feminist?” — admiringly refering to Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto — the Society for Cutting Up Men — found guilty of the attempted murder of artist Andy Warhol. Also see this glowing article about Solanas on a website maintained by Proudman.
“I’ve never liked Harry Potter. I didn’t even finish the first book. Potter is an English schoolboy genius living in a largely male, white fairytale land that looks like Oxbridge (for the elite). He’s a little patriarch that resorts to magic & violence to rule.” — 2023 tweet
Clementine Ford
Clementine Ford is an Australian extreme radical feminist known for her virulently anti-male commentary, as documented here and here. Among her more notorious quotes:
All men are scum and must die.
KILL ALL MEN AND THEN KILL THEM AGAIN
Who among us hasn’t had a daydream of going on a rampage and wiping out a third of the male population, AMIRITE?
Despite this, Ford still writes for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Major Politicians
“Women have always been the primary victims of war.” — Hillary Clinton, in a 1998 speech delivered at a DV conference in El Salvador.
Michelle Obama:
2014: “So we can’t waste this spotlight. It is temporary and life is short, and change is needed. And women are smarter than men.” — Daily Mail
2016: “Be better” — when asked what men can do — NPR
2019: “Are we protecting our men too much, so that they feel a little entitled, a little self-righteous?” — Daily Mail
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley, at the first presidential debate: “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” The media reaction? Ho-hum. She lost my vote for sure!
“I don’t think we are anywhere near a tipping point where the people accused of this are somehow being treated unfairly.” — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, on suits filed by men for alleged violations of their due process rights in connection with sexual assault claims, The College Rape Overcorrection.
"Guess who's perpetuating all of these kind of actions? It's the men in this country, and I just want to say to the men in this country: Just shut up and step up." — US Senator from Hawaii Mazie Hirono, Sep 18, 2018
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it." — late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Misandry: Hatred of Men & Boys
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” — Gloria Steinem. Turns out she had a change of mind: in 2000, at age 66, she married — a man!
“It’s essentially a pile of men, and as with all piles of men — from the medieval fortress to the financial group — it is inherently dull, yet there is no adequate answer for it.” — Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins, in an April 2025 column
"Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers,” “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice,” “Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies,” and “Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman” — American radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
“(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.” — Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
"All men are rapists” and "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter." — Marilyn French, from her book The Women's Room
“To be male is to be a kind of idiot savant.” — Germaine Greer, from her book The Whole Woman
“When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression.” — Sheila Jeffreys, University of Melbourne feminist professor
“A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. American and Australian feminists have always known this, and absorbed it cheerfully into their act; one thinks of Shere Hite julienning men on phone-in shows, or Dale Spender telling us that a good feminist is rude to a man at least three times a day ON PRINCIPLE. Of course, there’s a lot more to feminism...but scaring the shit out of the scumbags is an amusing and necessary part because, sadly, a good many men still respect nothing but strength.” — Julie Burchill, an English journalist who describes herself as a "militant feminist", from article Badmouthing
“The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist." — National Organization for Women, Emma Watson's new feminism: Count me in
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things” — English author Jilly Cooper, in Guardian article Jilly’s japes
“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.” / Sexual objectification is the primary process of the subjection of women. It unites act with word, construction with expression, perception with enforcement, myth with reality. Man fucks woman; subject verb object.” — American radical feminist lawyer Catherine MacKinnon
“I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” — Robin Morgan, editor, Ms. magazine
“I figured it was going to be a white guy between 25 and 55 because they're the root of most evil” — Ann Rhodes, University of Iowa, in response to a black female dental student arrested for making threats against minority students.
“Looking how easy it is for women to treat men in cruel ways is oddly liberating.” — feminist Naomi Wolf, Fire with Fire, 1993 p. 215.
“The male is a biological accident: the y (male) gene is an incomplete x (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.” — Valerie Solanas, the “SCUM Manifesto” (Society for Cutting Up Men)
“…not unless men get their act together, have their power taken from them and behave themselves. I mean, I would actually put them all in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans.” — Julie Bindel, still a columnist for the British Guardian newspaper. (See satirical YouTube video!)
“Shut the fuck up!” — extreme feminist Chanty Binx, also known as Big Red. See video about Red here!
“The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone, actress
“Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” — Germaine Greer
“I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they’re doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they’re manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don’t take place anywhere near an ovum. I don’t know that the ecosphere can tolerate it.” — Germaine Greer, promoting her book The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause, November 14, 1991
“All men are good for is fucking, and running over with a truck.” — Statement made by a University of Maine feminist administrator, quoted by Richard Dinsmore, who brought a successful civil suit against the university in the amount of $600,000. Dinsmore had protested the quote; was dismissed thereafter on the grounds of harassment; and responded by bringing suit against the university, which was settled successfully in 1995
“Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.” — American radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
“I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.” — Claire Sargent, 1992 Arizona senatorial candidate (She lost in a landslide to John McCain)
“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.” — Evelyn Cunningham. Hypocritically, Cunningham married four times!!! She must have enjoyed being “oppressed”.
“Ninety-five percent of women’s experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive… women didn’t go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.” — Jodie Foster, The New York Times Magazine
“So now that women don’t need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is, will we keep you around? And the answer is, ‘You know we need you in the way we need ice cream — you’ll be more ornamental.” — NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd
“I Hate Men” — A 2020 book written by French feminist Pauline Harmange
How to Date Men When You Hate Men — a book written by Blythe Roberson
“As I became more and more feminist, I think I got to a point where I was literally just straight up hating men. I just hated men, I wished all men would die.” — Emma Sulkowicz, aka Columbia University’s “Mattress Girl”. In fairness, she’s had a change of heart: “Now she wants to listen to their perspective — not just men, but others she has disagreed with.” Did Emma Sulkowicz Get Redpilled? At the very least, she’s found a new social set.
“As part of this discussion, boys were asked to stand as a symbolic gesture of apology for the behaviours of their gender that have hurt or offended girls and women.” — Jane Boyle, principal of a school in Australia that forced boys to stand up in assembly and apologize to their female classmates. After parents complained, she had to issue her own apology: “In retrospect, while well-intended, we recognise that part of the assembly was inappropriate.”
WHY IS THIS GENDER BIGOT STILL PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL?
“The only way to win liberation is to make men miserable so they will have no peace until women are free” — Women’s Studies professor Pat Mainardi said at “Feminists Of New York Conference”, September 1972
“Represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants...the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female” — definition for “male” in A Feminist Dictionary, Pandora Press, 1985
“An obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched...a contradictory baby-man” – definition for “man” in A Feminist Dictionary, Pandora Press, 1985
“Are men necessary? No. And I can prove it in eight words: Rob Ford. Ted Cruz. Dick Cheney. Anthony Weiner … Men have not only stopped evolving. They’re devolving.” — Maureen Dowd, in The Globe and Mail, November 2013
“Men are animals” — Swedish feminist Ireen von Wachenfeldt, on TV show, “Könskriget/The Gender War”, May 2005
“AIDS education will not get very far until young men are taught how not to rape young women and how to eroticize trust and consent; and until young women are supported in the way they need to be redefining their desires” -- Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 55
“I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead.” — Victoria Bissell Brown, in a 2018 rant published in The Washington Post where she admitted to 30 minutes of “from-the-gut yelling” at her husband, for “a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment”.
“The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist.” — American radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson
“I am a prevention violence minister [sic]. I know who causes violence in the world, it is white cis men. That is white cis men who cause violence in the world.” — Marama Davidson, New Zealand Minister for Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, who refused when publically called upon to apologize.
“… I will say loud and proud, yes, today I hate men, and will tomorrow and the day after. But only the men who perpetrate these crimes against my sisters, and those who do nothing to stop it. Are you in either one of those categories? If so, then I despise you.” — Julie Bindel, Why I hate men, in The Guardian
“Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.” — Carrie (Or Carry) Amelia Moore Nation, temperance advocate, found in a Diary entry after her death on June the 9th 1911
“The Patriarchy continues to try to crush my neck with their heavy boots, cut off my life force and take away my voice—Even those who call themselves artists..............You know who you are!!! DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY! Now and Forever.” – Madonna, in 2021 tweet
“Because men do horrible, horrible things.” … [‘batty as hell’ uber-femininists Andrea Dworkin and Shulamith Firestone] ... “were properly furious at the horrible things men do to women.” — Suzanne Moore, The Guardian columnist, in her 2011 It's time to get angry article
2024 update: looks like Moore is still espousing her anti-male hate. In a recent Substack article, she republished an earlier article she wrote gleefully promoting the book the “SCUM Manifesto” (Society for Cutting Up Men) by Valerie Solonas, the mentally ill woman who shot artist Andy Warhol. It’s amazing that mainstream media publications provide a platform that allows such a malicious woman spew her hate against men.“Think of all the financial and emotional damage that could have been avoided if men simply stayed at home where they belong” — Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, It’s Time to Admit That Allowing Men Into the Workplace Was a Mistake
“Women may not find this surprising, but one of the most persistent and frustrating problems in evolutionary biology is the male. Specifically. . . why doesn’t he just go away?” writer Natalie Angier, The Male of the Species: Why Is He Needed? The New York Times, May 17, 1994.
“Men know they are a genetic deformity deep down. They know what they are. This is why they seek to degrade woman, their maker. To them equality means hitting women because the only way women are made more ‘equal’ to men is through abuse and degradation.” — Radical Feminist Witch on X, Sept. 2023
“The Sisterhood… dictates that in the battle between the sexes, women friends stick by each other. Men know that when the Sisterhood unites, there will be no peace until they’ve given up, given in or apologized and promised never to do it again.” — Olivette Orme in the Wall Street Journal, May 9, 1997
“I don't want to do this, I am so done with men. They are so disgusting.” — Australian woman Tasia Taderera, who complained online about a date who only bought her a single drink
“The degeneracy we deplore lies at the door of a selfish, lustful, diseased manhood. Men have sought in woman only a body.” — British feminist Frances Swiney, The Bar of Isis (PDF), 1907
“The whole race is suffering from masculinity; and men and women are alike to blame for tolerating it.” — Canadian feminist Nellie McClung, In Times Like These, 1915
Hatred of Men and Boys in India
“Sir, no Sir, I will not give you sons,
I will abort every male fetus I bearI will live to ensure there are no more sons,
I will live to see your bloodline cross over
with you to the other side,
now the blessing from your lips is your execution.” — Indian-American feminist poet Usha Akella in her book I Will Not Bear You Sons
“It’s time for men to suffer now.” — Renuka Chowdhary, Indian feminist politician and former Union minister of State for Ministry of Women and Child Development, comments made while passing the Domestic Violence Act 2005
Following quotes by Indian feminists published on Twitter:
“It’s time for men to suffer. You cannot trust men or your husband.” — Renuka Chaudharay
“Boys are rejected maal.” — Indian politician Anandiben Patel (“Rejected maals” refers to “boys of insufficient acheivement to be selected by girls”)
“Every man is a potenAltial rapist.” — Nandita Das
“All violence is male generated.” — Maneka Gandhi
“Indian sub-continent men do not say ‘we make love’; they either say ‘I make love to her’ or ‘I fuck her’. Hope they’ll learn to be a bit civilized.” — Indian feminist Taslima Nasrin
“Indian males as a species must be the ugliest in the world.” — Indian journalist Sagarika Ghose
“Delhi men won’t let go of any opportunity to eye-tease or behave indecently.” — Indian actress Gul Panag
Misandry: Gender Slurs and Epithets
Male Chauvinist Pig: a hateful gender slur against men, uttered freely and shamelessly since the 1960’s by millions of women around the world, completely oblivious to the hypocrisy and long history of chauvinistic utterances by women. Most notable is Elizabeth Cady Stanton who said, “We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men…”.1
Fragile male ego: refers to the feminist belittling of men. It is also an ironic gender slur against men, as it completely ignores fragile female egos.
Male fragility: see fragile male ego, above
Male, pale and stale: A term used by intersectional feminists to criticise an organisation for having too many old, white and male people working for it, based on the idea that age, race and sex disparity alone in an organisation is enough to accuse it of agist, racist or sexist behaviour.
Male tears: a shaming term used to make fun of men who dare to complain about the reverse sexism of feminism and the movement’s lies and hatred of men, often arrogantly expressed as “I drink male tears”. The slur has been spread on coffee mugs.
Manbaby: A man who acts like a baby. If he doesn't get his way, he becomes crabby and unable to work with. Whoa! Why don’t feminists admit that many of their population are “womanbabies”?
Manflu: an arrogant, female-chauvinistic, derisive term spoken by women as a “condition shared by all males wherein a common illness (usually a mild cold) is presented by the patient as life-threatening.” (See Urban dictionary for a three page description showing how far feminism has warped women’s compassion for men.
Manterrupting: a disparaging term meaning “for a man to interrupt a woman”
Manpology: an insulting idea that men don’t apologize as “well” as women, manpology is “… a way of pretending to be remorseful once caught at sexual harassment, infidelity, or any number of wrong-doing by males.” This is opposed to the overwraught way that women apologize:
“Women, conversely, treat an apology like a torture ritual. … The kind of demonstrative protracted apologies shared among Sex and the City characters play out like modern crucifixion scenes to the male eye, eliciting a kind of violent nausea and an unrelenting need to take a baseball bat to the television to ensure it can never again convey such insufferable wordiness.” [source]Mansplaining: a pejorative term meaning “for a man to comment on or explain something, to a woman”. See this for a woman being corrected for using the term.
Manspreading: a pejorative term referring to the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs apart. Anti-manspreading campaigns that began in 2013 have been heavily criticised as public shaming campaigns, particularly objectionable as they posted non-consensual photos of men with emphasis on their crotches, comparable to creepshots or revenge porn. The female version of manspreading is “shebagging”, referring to who take up one or more additional seats on public transit with bags or other personal items.
Manslamming: (1) term coined by New Yorker Beth Breslaw to describe men bumping into women on the street (2) the act of a woman deliberately walking into a man while claiming that the opposite occurred. Ironically, columnist Katherine Timpf found that while walking in New York, women ran into her nearly 3 times as often as men (66 to 23).
MenAreTrash: see a video by conservative punkit Tomi Lahren who ranted for 15 minutes about how men are trash, who don’t deserve her and her friends. An ugly expose of her own hatred of men.
Testosterone poisoning: a bigoted way of blaming all of the world’s problems on “overdoses” of testosterone, without acknowledging women’s own propensity to approve of violence and wars — for example, Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes waged a violent terrorist campaign of bombings, assassination, and arson before WW1, only stopping to support the British war effort with a completely hypocritical White Feather campaign, where women passed out white feathers — a symbol of cowardice — to shame them into enlisting. These feathers were often forced onto boys and to men who had already served in the war, some with visible war injuries.
Toxic masculinity: (1) “.. a relentless ideological attack on masculinity stemming from radical feminism which literally seeks to pathologize masculinity in ways that are profoundly harmful to the existential sense of self of young men.” — Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men; (2) “… a mammoth and global false accusation” — Tom Golden, publisher of Men Are Good Substack, (3) “… an attempt to smear the idea of masculinity by confusing masculine competence with tyranny.” — Jordan Peterson
Calls for Violence or Harm Against Men & Boys
“I personally am livid… Have you considered castration as an option?”
—NBC co-anchor Katie Couric to a bride who was left standing at the altar
“The Today Show,” November 25, 1997“Boys should be castrated at birth, but selectively, to avoid the extinction of the species. We must make men stop governing so they give power to us. Will they voluntarily do it? No. We have to resort to selective castration.” — Aurelia Vera, a Canary Islands school teacher, spoken to her teenage students.
“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” — American radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
“Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” — Christine Fair, associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, in a Sept 29, 2019 tweet
“Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad luck -- and if you get in my way I'll run you down.” — “Liberated Woman”, Melbourne, Australia
Actual Feminist-Inspired Violence Against Men & Boys
Jolene Doherty, while she was pregnant and high on drugs, knifed a teenager to death. She later bragged about the crime to other inmates in jail, claiming that she was a “man hater”. She had earlier beat up an autistic boy when she was around 12.
Finding Humor in Violence Against Men & Boys
In a Category of its Own: "Boys are Stupid” Products Sold by David & Goliath Girls Clothing Store
“Will you please shut up and get a life, already? / Critics targeting anti-boy T-shirts must have something better to do than take political correctness to new depths of inanity” — Jane Ganahl, in San Francisco Chronicle article.
It took a nationwide campaign to drive "Boys are Stupid" products from store shelves.
“I do think it’s quite fabulous! That will teach him! She should have thrown it in the dog’s bowl! But why should the dog suffer?” — The entire cast of The View, led by Sharon Osbourne, in a 2011 episode, laughing about the case of a woman, Catherine Kieu Becker, who had drugged her husband, tied him to his bed, and when he woke up, she sliced off his penis and threw it in the garbage disposal unit, shredding it beyond repair. Watch the entire hateful clip here.
"The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife." — British comedian Jo Brand, in a BBC web page Are these the greatest comedy one-liners ever told? (Brand also “joked” about throwing battery acid on “unpleasant” politicians.)
“Did you hear about the woman who stabbed her husband thirty seven times? I admire her restraint.” — comedian Roseanne Barr
“Number 10: Regularly beat him on the head with your shoe.” – Actress Sharon Stone, presenting the top-ten list of “keeping your man” on David Letterman show
Calls for Killing Men
“I ask people to imagine — now I'm using this word imagine, and I'm underlining it three times — a scenario in which we kill a certain number of men every week. How many men must we kill until patriarchy sits across the table from us and says, OK, stop.” — Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American contributor to the Post and NY Times, in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview, September 2019
“Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers.” — Robin Morgan, editor, Ms. magazine
2018 New Year’s resolutions:
1. Cultivate female friendships
2. Band together to kill all men — Emily McCombs, Huffington Post editor, in December, 2017 tweet
#killallmen: this hateful hashtag might not literally call for male genocide; some claim it’s “humor”, but does anyone think that a #killallwomen would be considered funny?
“Honestly, the corona virus isn’t killing men fast enough” — posted by radical feminist Clementine Ford under Twitter hashtag #killallmen:
Calls for Male Genocide
“… So the only answer to that is to kill male babies and just kill any man you see in the street. We want the species to go on but only with women in it. So that’s what we have to do.” — Jenny McDermott, “Unhinged Feminist”
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." "The world would be better off with dramatically fewer men" — Mary Daly, Boston College feminism professor (1967 to 1999)
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.” — Valerie Solanas, the “SCUM Manifesto” (Society for Cutting Up Men)
“To secure a world of female values and female freedom we must, I believe, add one more element to the structure of the future: the ratio of men to women must be radically reduced so that men approximate only ten percent of the total population.” — Sally Miller Gearhart, feminism professor, in her book “Reweaving The Web of Life: Feminism and [IRONICALLY] Nonviolence”
“[Males should] “...go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quickly and painlessly gassed to death.” — Valerie Solanas, Radical feminist, “S.C.U.M. Manifesto”, 1967
Lois Waisbrooker was a 19th century radical feminist who, in her 1893 novel “A Sex Revolution” advocated for the mass slaughter of men, reducing them to ten percent of the human population. Notably, she also wrote a book, “Eugenics; or Race Culture Lessons”, and contributed to an anarchist magazine “Lucifer, the Light-Bearer”.
Lies About Violence Against Women
As co-founder of the California Women's Law Center, Sheila Kuehl started the lie about DV increasing on Super Bowl Sunday in 1993.
“The patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself.” — Gloria Steinem, “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”
“Every piece of credible research produced in every country in the world where this work has been done shows that sexual and domestic violence is committed overwhelmingly by men against females.” — Julie Bindel, Why I hate men, in The Guardian. Ms. Bindel has clearly fallen for the feminist lie about DV. She should talk to Erin Pizzey, the woman who opened the world’s first battered women’s shelter, or visit The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) website.
Lies About Sexual Abuse by Men
“[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.” — Susan Brownmiller,radical feminist, “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape”
“We live in a culture that condones and celebrates rape. Within a phallocentric, patriarchal state the rape of women by men is a ritual that daily perpetuates and maintains sexist oppression and exploitation. We cannot hope to transform "rape culture" without committing ourselves fully to resisting and eradicating patriarchy.” — Bell Hooks, Seduced by Violence No More
False Accusations: Amber Heard: In a Class of Her Own
“I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture's wrath. That has to end.” — Amber Heard, Washington Post opinion piece, December 18, 2018.
“Tell people it was a fair fight and see what the jury and judge think. Tell the world, Johnny. Tell them, ‘I, Johnny Depp, I’m a victim, too, of domestic violence, and it was a fair fight,’ and see if people believe or side with you.” — Amber Heard
“Yes. I am.” — Johnny Depp
False Accusations Against Men
“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience.” — Catherine Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of Student Life, The Bigot of Vassar College
“Here’s an unpopular opinion: I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations, Sorry. If some innocent men’s reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price I am absolutely willing to pay”. — Emily Lindin, columnist for Teen Vogue posted to her Twitter account in 2017
“In October [2017], I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of RUMORS AND ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT [emphasis added], much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing.” — Moira Donegan. A Stephen Elliott, who was included on the list, sued and won a six-figure payment from Donegan. Said Elliott: “the settlement was enough money that it's basically an admission of guilt…”.
“And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.” — Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime
“My husband beat me.” — Betty Friedan. Her husband Carl proved that she beat him: “Betty was …the most violent person I have ever known”.
“I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.” — Robin Morgan editor, Ms. magazine
“In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.” — American radical feminist lawyer Catherine MacKinnon
“As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women … he can sexually molest his daughters … THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE.” — Marilyn French
“All violence is male generated.” — Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Indian Feminist politician and Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development, September 2015 during a live chat session on Facebook
Destruction of the Family, Marriage, Fathers
“But [feminists’] criticism of the family is intellectually dishonest, in as much as anti—family advocates are generally mute when it comes to proposing concrete alternatives to family organization. How society is to be rearranged once the family is dissolved is never explained.” — The Left's War on the Family
“The father is no longer essential to the economic survival of the unit. Men haven’t kept up with the changes in society; they don’t know how to be parents. Nobody has taught them: where are the cultural institutions to tell them that being a parent is a good thing? They don’t exist. At the same time, women don’t have many expectations of what men might provide.” — Anna Coote, Institute for Public Policy Research (England)
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." — Sheila Cronin, co-founder of Feminists—A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles
“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.” — Kate Millet, author of Sexual Politics
“The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” — Linda Gordon
“In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.” — Dr Mary Jo Bane, The Left's War on the Family
“We have to abolish and reform the institution of marriage...By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God...We must understand what we are attempting is a revolution, not a public relations movement.” — Gloria Steinem, The Left's War on the Family
“The little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why we are hanging on to it, I don't know.” — Toni Morrison, novelist and feminist, The Left's War on the Family
“We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.” — Robin Morgan, editor, Ms. magazine, Sisterhood Is Powerful
“The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
— Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in Women and the New Race“How will the family unit be destroyed? … the demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.” — Roxanne Dunbar, “Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution”
“Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women.... We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men.” — Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger, “The Declaration of Feminism”, 1971
“Women’s liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let’s get on with it.” — Germaine Greer, “The Female Eunuch ‘Revolution’”
“The institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation of the oppression of women; it is through the role of wife that the subjugation of women is maintained. In a very real way the role of wife has been the genesis of women's rebellion throughout history.” — Marlene Dixon, radical feminist professor at University of Chicago, “Why Women’s Liberation? Racism and Male supremacy”
“The married woman knows that love is, at its best, an inadequate reward for her unnecessary and bizarre heritage of oppression.” — radical feminists Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, Toward a Female Liberation Movement, 1968
“… reimagining the family as an arrangement in which children would no longer belong to their parents … but would instead be “raised by society as a whole.” — radical Marxist-feminist Sophie Lewis, author of two books that call for the destruction of the family: Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022) and Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (2021).
Attacking Civil Rights of Men and Boys
"I'm really tired of people suggesting that you're somehow un-American if you don't respect the presumption of innocence, because you know what that sounds like to a victim? Presumption: You're a liar." — Duke University professor Wendy Murphy, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
“Why could we not expel a student based on an allegation?” – Amanda Childress, Dartmouth sexual assault awareness program coordinator, declaring that campus policies aren’t going far enough to protect students. (Dartmouth defended Childress, noting that she “was asking a question—a provocative one—meant to generate dialogue around complex issues….”.)
“These lawsuits are an incredible display of entitlement, the same entitlement that drove them to rape.” — Occidental College professor Caroline Heldman, on suits filed by men for alleged violations of their due process rights in connection with sexual assault claims, The College Rape Overcorrection
“Assuming it is a male and female, it is the responsibility in the case of the male to gain consent before proceeding with sex.“ — Duke University Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek when asked what would happen if two students both got drunk to the point of incapacity and then had sex. (The Campus Rape Frenzy — The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities)
“Ultimately, though, from where I sit in Charlottesville, to let fact checking define the narrative would be a huge mistake.” – Julia Horowitz, of UVA’s school newspaper, writing about Rolling Stone’s false “gang rape” article, Why We Believed Jackie's Rape Story.
“I think it’s arrogance and ingrained male privilege.” — Laura Dunn, Executive Director of SurvJustice, responding to the suggestion that men should have a right to a fair hearing when women accuse them of rape
“Instead women have to be conned into institutionalized marriage and motherhood. … She has to be taught that without a man at her side she is incomplete, and without marriage and motherhood she can find no lasting fulfillment. Her desires and life chances thus narrowed, a woman is primed not to rebel against domestic inequities. Feminism promotes such rebellion.” — Mary F. Rodgers, Who’s Afraid of Women’s Studies: Feminisms in Everyday Life
Battered women should be legally allowed to kill abusive partners “…because a woman in that circumstance has already lived in captivity. … She’s already lived in a form of imprisonment and enslavement in a relationship like that.” — University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth Sheehy, whose book, Defending battered Women on Trial, proposes that women who experience extreme chronic abuse from their male partners should have the right to kill them pre-emptively — in their sleep, say, or when they least expect it — without fear of being charged with murder.
Female Chauvinism
The Original Female Chauvinist Pig: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men…"
Full quote: “We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.” – Diary entry December 27, 1890, Published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
“The male element is a destructive force…”
Full quote: “The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish, aggrandizing, loving war, violence, conquest, acquisition, breeding in the material and moral world alike discord, disorder, disease, and death. See what a record of blood and cruelty the pages of history reveal! Through what slavery, slaughter, and sacrifice, through what inquisitions and imprisonments, pains and persecutions, black codes and gloomy creeds, the soul of humanity has struggled for the centuries, while mercy has veiled her face and all hearts have been dead alike to love and hope!” – From speech, The Destructive Male
Other Female Chauvinists
Fox Nation’s conservative commentator Tomi Lauren had the chauvinistic chutzpah to create a YouTube video "Men Are Trash"
“I still believe that women are the superior sex”. — Jane Fonda
“When you're choosing Michigan's next attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn't have a penis? I think so.” — Dana Nessel [DC Post]
“It's not that I don't like men; women are just better." — Anna Quindlen, New York Times columnist
“I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.” — Isla Lang Fisher, AZ Quotes
“I do want to be able to explain to a 9-year-old boy in terms he will understand why I think it’s OK for girls to wear shirts that revel in their superiority over boys.” — Treena Shapiro, Making fun of boys totally fair
“I believe that women are the more spiritually advanced sex.” — Erica Jong, Washington Post, December 6, 1992
Authoritarian Feminism
“No, we don’t believe that any woman should have this choice. No woman should be authorized to stay at home to bring up her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.” — Early second-wave feminist Simone de Beauvoir
“Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that.” — radical feminist journalist Vivian Gornick, "The Daily Illini," April 1981
Feminist Indoctrination
“If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal—a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students—I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment … of persuading students that women are oppressed.” — Washington University professor Joyce Trebilcot, from Christina Hoff Sommers’ book Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl’.” — Shirley Chisholm
“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” — Gloria Steinem
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.” — Erica Jong
“Because if I had one piece of advice for young girls, and women, it would be this: girls, don’t read any books by men. Don’t read them. Stay away from them. Or, at least, don’t read them until you’re older, and fully-formed, and battle-ready, and are able to counter someone being rude to you, in conversation, not with silent embarrassment, or internalised, mute fury, but a calm, ‘Fuck you very much, and goodbye.’
“Because if there’s one thing that has made me, perhaps, happier in myself, and more confident about writing the truth, and less apt to run myself down for my appearance, weight, loudness and unusualness than many, many other women, it’s that I never read books by men when I was younger.” — Caitlin Moran, How books made me a feminist
“Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen…[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny… ” — feminist Cheryl Clarke Lesbianism, An Act of Resistance, in “This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color”, Women of Color Press,1983, pp.128-137
“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.” — Ti-Grace Atkinson
“You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.” — Catherine MacKinnon
Just Plain Crazy & Idiot Feminism
“[Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica] is a ‘Rape Manual’ ” — UCLA Professor of Education and Gender studies Sandra G. Harding, “The Science Question in Feminism”
“[E=mc2 characterized as a] ‘sexed equation’ because ‘it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us.’ ” — French feminist Luce Irigaray, Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
“The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist.” — The National Organization for Women
“Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace, and inspiration from real women ... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world.” — Annie Laurie Gaylor, “Feminist Salvation”, The Humanist, July/August 1988)
“The act which men commonly perform on prostituted women is penis-in-vagina sexual intercourse. There is nothing ‘natural’ about that act.” — Sheila Jeffreys, “The Idea of Prostitution”, 2008)
“Men are from another planet, sent here by spaceships to copulate with female earthlings and propagate the species—a task for which science has rendered them all but redundant. We need keep only a handful of donors on a sperm farm for that purpose, where they can subsist on pizza and beer and Playboy magazine” — Rose DiManno, Toronto Star, January 11, 1999
“Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism” — University of Michigan law professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, 1989
“Abortion… is an essential measure to prevent the heartbreak of infant mortality…” NOW president Terry O’Neill
All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft.” — Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger, “The Declaration of Feminism”, 1971
“Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men's lives. Our humanity is denied. Our prescribed behavior is enforced by the threat of physical violence.” — Red Stockings Manifesto, Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement
“In WAS’s world [Women Against Sex], men’s sexuality is mean and violent… But the crazy words of this missive began to mix with a voice of my own, a voice scratchy from disuse, holding back some long unacknowledged feelings. I realized that a part of me still looks at the world as I did back in 1971 - as us and Them. It feels as wounded by men as the WAS woman do. It fears men and is threatened by their bodies. It suspects that heterosexuality is a golden trap, a pleasure compulsion somehow conditioned against women’s better interests … I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear and rage at men.” -- Judith Levine, author of “My Enemy, My Love: Women, Masculinity, and the Dilemmas of Gender”
“God is going to change. We women are going to bring about an end to God… we will change the world so much that He won't fit anymore” — University of Ottawa professor Naomi Goldenberg, Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions”
An example of gender studies BS:
“The ‘real’ and the ‘sexually factic’ are phantasmatic constructions—illusions of substance—that bodies are compelled to approximate, but never can. What, then, enables the exposure of the rift between the phantasmatic and the real whereby the real admits itself as phantasmatic? Does this offer the possibility for a repetition that is not fully constrained by the injunction to reconsolidate naturalized identities? Just as bodily surfaces are enacted as the natural, so these surfaces can become the site of a dissonant and denaturalized performance that reveals the performative status of the natural itself” — radical feminist Judith Butler, as cited by Janice Fiamengo in New College of Florida is Right (and well within its Rights) to Abolish Gender Studies
"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal." —
journalist Sylvia Fraser“I'm not sure we need an office of men's health at NIH. But I'm in favor of an office of men's behavior. … But the demographic imbalance will continue if we don't also find a way to help men throw off their prehistoric mating ways.” — Washington Post columnist Abigail Trafford, in her column “For Men, Older Women May Hold the Key to Longer Life”. Apparently Trafford didn’t understand that evolutionarily the way that men behave has always been driven by how women reward them for that behavior.
Just Plain Crazy & Idiot Feminism: Krista Jane Heflin: In a Class of Her Own
Self-named “The Femitheist Divine”, Helfin published a website The New Era of Feminism (now defunct) where she declared “I am Femitheist, the creator of the movement that is Femitheism, and hopefully, the future Mother of the New World”, and called for (1) the genocide of men to 10% of the population, and (2) an International Castration Day. For more see this website entry.
“The real truth is that feminism is the ideology of hate, whipped up into a false struggle by a small cadre of fellow-travelling, politically motivated, greedy-for-power women who want to overturn the status quo ante so they can create a society in which they and their like can dominate. And it doesn’t take much trawling of the reader-responses to feminist news items on the Internet to see the degree to which their demonised version of patriarchy is believed in the febrile imaginations of young women today, who are clearly caught up in the fervour without displaying any understanding of what it is they are actually saying and believing.” — Herbert Purdy, Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life.
Stanton’s full quote: “We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.” – Diary entry December 27, 1890, Published in Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences
Wow. Excellent collection. Thanks!