Women of “The Manosphere”

A List of Brave Women Who Are Standing Up to Feminism

Last updated 7/13/2025

The “manosphere” is the term given to a broad range of male opposition to the lies, hate, and misandry of feminism. The term typically includes only men and men’s groups, including men’s rights activists (MRAs), Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), and fathers’ rights groups. The manosphere is also a feminist propaganda term meant to lump men’s rights activists with non-men’s rights groups like “incels” and pick-up-artists (PUAs).

What is not usually included as part of the manosphere is the increasing number of women and female-led organizations who are speaking out against the feminist-inspired hate that has proliferated worldwide over the past five decades.

This is a list of the many women who, by speaking out against feminist excess, can legitimately be considered an integral part of the manosphere.¹

Note that entries in block quotes (in red, like this one) indicate an individual post is available that provides additional information about the woman or woman-led group briefly described in this post.

Women Against Feminism YouTube Page

Special Mention: Former NOW President Karen DeCrow

Karen DeCrow, who served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1974 to 1977, was a recognized champion of women’s rights. As described in this article in The Atlantic, what is less well-known is that she was often also a men’s rights activist who was skeptical about many key aspects of latter-day feminism, including its focus on sexual violence and male abuse of women.

In a 1982 letter to the NY Times, DeCrow firmly established a clear-minded fairness to men:

“The courts have properly determined that a man should neither be able to force a woman to have an abortion nor to prevent her from having one, should she so choose. Justice therefore dictates that if a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”

As a woman who felt that “men and women are far more alike than different” and who contested the hateful direction in which she found feminism heading, Karen DeCrow deserves a special mention in “Women of the Manosphere”.

Anti-Feminism Groups / Organizations

· Honey Badgers and the Honey Badger Brigade: A honey badger is a woman who publicly supports the men’s rights movement, often in opposition to feminism. Female supporters are among the most prominent men’s rights activists and provide breadth and legitimacy to the movement, as men are often vilified when they object to feminist hatred of men. The Honey Badger Brigade is an organized group of honey badgers, a female-led organization founded in 2013. [Individual article]

· Leading Women for Shared Parenting: “Parental separation should not spell the end of a relationship between a child and one of its parents. Forced separation from one’s own flesh and blood in the absence of abuse is morally wrong and socially irresponsible.” Members include others listed in this document, Barbara Kay, Janice Fiamengo, Erin Pizzey, Phyllis Schlafly, Suzanne Venker.

· Advocates For the Falsely Accused: formerly Women Against False Accusations, a group of women who began raising awareness of the all too common issue of false accusations against men. AFFA still advocates for men who are falsely accused of sex crimes, and maintains an affiliated YouTube channel.

· Women Against Feminism: a YouTube channel that features women who explain why they oppose feminism

· #WomenAgainstFeminism: an informal movement of women who reject feminism. Using the hashtag #WomenAgainstFeminism, women post “selfies” holding up handwritten posters stating reasons why they disapprove of feminism.

· Women Against Paternity Fraud: “Paternity Fraud has devastating effects on not only men, but the children and women in their lives as well, including; spouses, girlfriends, mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and other relatives. Women who were lied to about the identity of their father are also paternity fraud victims. People tend to think of paternity fraud as just a men’s issue but our members are both women and men negatively affected by this issue.”

· Independent Women’s Forum (IWF): is an antifeminist, conservative, women-run organization that was founded to take on the “old feminist establishment”. The IWF claims to be “the voice of reasonable women with important ideas who embrace common sense over divisive feminist ideology”.

Individual Women

· SPECIAL MENTION: Margaret Thatcher: first female British Prime Minister, despite being a controversial figure, was staunchly ant-feminist, once saying “The feminists hate me, don’t they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.” [Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life]

· SPECIAL MENTION: Phyllis Schlafly: was an American conservative activist and anti-feminist who spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), calling the law “feminist pork” and writing that the law provides incentives for false accusations of violence. (You might dislike Schlafly, but these links are well worth reading.)

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· Lori Alexander: is a self proclaimed Christian blogger who publishes The Transformed Wife blog. While Alexander writes from a traditional wife perspective that some may not be entirely comfortable with (myself included), her website is worth visiting as it provides a completely different perspective than the anti-marriage, anti-family, anti-father feminist worldview.)

· Bettina Arndt: an Australian men’s rights activist Arndt observed the unfair treatment of men in society, now makes YouTube videos, writes and speaks out about men’s issues and the anti-male feminist agenda. [Individual article]

· Greta Aurora: is an author and video blogger based in London. Greta writes articles for Medium and A Voice for Men (THANK YOU, GRETA!) and maintains her own video channel.

· Corrine Barraclough: an Australian freelance writer who often writes anti-feminism articles for Spectator Australia. She wrote a 2020 article about the murder of lawyer and men’s rights activist Marc Angelucci.

· Kirsten Birkett: is author of a book The Essence of Feminism, that examines the foundation and factual errors of feminism. She found that far from making women happier, many of the policies and programs feminism had succeeded in introducing and implementing had the net effect of making a large chunk of our female population downright miserable. She observed that she began writing the book as a feminist, but her research has turned her into an ex-feminist.

· Karen Lehrman Bloch: is an American writer and cultural critic known for her influential work challenging modern feminism. Bloch wrote a 1993 article in Mother Jones magazine about women’s studies programs that criticized what she termed "group-think" feminism, advocating for individualism and open discourse. In 1997 she wrote the book The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World that challenged much of feminist orthodoxy about women and sex, saying “If we want society to stop equating our worth with our beauty, we need to make sure that we stop it ourselves.”

· Janet Bloomfield: a Canadian anti-feminist, one of the first female anti-feminist bloggers, using the pseudonym JudgyBitch. She was one of the original contributors to Women Against Feminism. She has explained why feminism is itself preventing legal equality between men and women.

· Myrna Blyth: author of the book Spin Sisters : How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — — and Liberalism — — to the Women of America: “The story that began as an exciting movement for equal rights and morphed into a wonderful celebration of opportunity today has become a depressing, discouraging gains-means-pain tale of woe sold to women readers as the grim new reality of their lives…”

· Ava Brighton: a men’s rights activist who writes and speaks about the abuses to which men are subjected. Is currently working on a documentary video, “A Void”, that describes how men are being completely destroyed, stripped of their rights, and deprived of their children.

· Lisa Britton: in her profile as a columnist for Evie magazine, Britton describes herself as “actively fighting for intact families, valuing the sexes equally, and taking a special stand encouraging boys and men, recognizing the need to reduce the negative impact of fatherlessness on our girls and boys, thus leading to true male and female empowerment”. She also posts on Twitter: “Don’t forget our boys… The future is everyone!”

· Anne Cools: is a retired Canadian senator who, despite opening one of the first DV shelters for women in Canada, has also criticized certain aspects of the feminist movement, stating that “…this feminism that has grown up suddenly in the last few years, where all virtue and goodness are stacked up on the side of women, and all evil and violence is stacked up on the side of men — well, human nature doesn’t work that way. [emphasis added]”.

· Diana Davison: is a legal researcher and founder of The Lighthouse Project, a Canadian non-profit organization that advocates for victims of false accusations. She also has a YouTube channel that discusses feminism and the law.

· Lori DeBolt: after her son was jailed after being falsely accused of rape, DeBolt joined the National Coalition for Men (NCFM) and helped found an affiliated group, Women Against False Accusations. This original organization broadened its advocacy from men who are falsely accused of sex crimes to people falsely accused of any crime and has been renamed Advocates For the Falsely Accused.

· Elaine Donnelly spent several years as an activist in opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment as National Media Chair of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum and later founded the Michigan Stop-ERA Committee. She an anti-feminist and founder of the Center for Military Readiness which favors limiting the positions open to women in the military. (Full disclosure: the organization also opposes the service of gay and transgender people in the military.)

Mary Eberstadt is an American author, essayist, and cultural critic who wrote two books critical of feminism, Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes and Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, where she wrote “But there is a difference between the peevishness behind, say, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” and the purposely lewd and crude language characteristic of feminism today. Think again of the emblematic hats at the Women’s March and what they made a household name. Measuring just by its profanity, today’s feminism is not your mom’s after all.”

· Amala Ekpunobi: Raised in a far-left activist household, Ekpunobi was once a student organizer for the left. After a complete ideological transformation, she now speaks out against feminism, and “inspires millions of young people every day to discover the truth, defend their values, and lead better lives”. Her YouTube channel is here.

· Janice Fiamengo: a retired University of Ottawa professor hosts The Fiamengo File, a YouTube series, in which she reveals the fraud of academic feminism by examining its tenets, bizarre obsessions, outlandish claims, and its impact on western culture. [Individual article]

· Kristal Garcia: a former Honey Badger and a freelance writer who has appeared on the TODAY show for her activism. Wrote “100 Days of Loving Men”, her journey of healing relationship with father and men. She appeared in The Red Pill Documentary.

· Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South. A Marxist early on in her career, she later converted to Catholicism and became vocal in the conservative women’s movement. Wrote a book Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life: How Today’s Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women.

· Diana Furchtgott-Roth: wrote two books with Christine Rosen (née Stolba) that challenged feminist lies and propaganda, including Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America that debunks  the glass ceiling and the wage gap by revealing faulty methodological assumptions behind these myths and The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough that dispels the myth that women need government programs to protect them and shows why feminists want to keep this myth alive.

· Linda Kelly Hill: wrote two articles for the Florida State University Law Review that completely demolishes the feminist denials about female abuse of men, Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Violence: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State and The Feminist Misspeak of Sexual Harassment.

· Elizabeth Hobson: a member of the English men’s rights organization Justice for Men and Boys, Hobson calls herself an anti-feminist Gender Equality Activist who “…wants to end the Sex War — artificially constructed by feminists.” [Individual article]

· Cassie Jaye: created a video The Red Pill that she originally undertook to “expose the men’s rights movement”, but was sufficiently open-minded to conclude that these activists have legitimate grievances. She ended her film by declaring “I’m no longer a feminist”. [Individual article]

· Wendy Kaminer: currently on the advisory board of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and a former board member of the ACLU, Kaminer wrote a book Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU, and multiple magazine articles denouncing the excesses of feminism: an article in The Atlantic Feminism’s Identity Crisis and What to Make of the Rape Accusations at Amherst College?

· Barbara Kay: writes for the Canadian National Post. Kay acknowledges that the feminism of the 1960s had “worthy ideals” of empowering women, but wrote in 2004 that the feminist movement had been “hijacked by special interest groups nursing extreme-grievance agendas”. “Angry lesbians” and “man-haters” renounced heterosexuality, “traditional marriage, and parental influence over children”. “Radical Marxist/feminists” dominated Women’s Studies on campus”.

· Judith Kleinfeld: a professor of psychology at the University of Alaska is known for her studies that criticized alleged gender discrimination in education. Her The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls analyzed the American Association of University Women's report How Schools Shortchange Girls. She also criticized a 1999 MIT study that supported claims made by some of the university's female professors that their male colleagues enjoyed preferential treatment. Kleinfeld called the MIT study "junk science" and pointed out that the committee evaluating the charges was led by the primary complainant and cited the committee's reluctance to open its data to peer review. Kleinfeld is a member at the Women's Freedom Network and the Independent Women's Forum. She is also director at The Boys Project, a not-for-profit group formed to address the female-male gender gap in educational achievement.

· Noretta Koertge: With co-author Daphne Patai, wrote book Professing feminism: Cautionary tales from the strange world of women’s studies. The book described shortcomings of women’s studies courses including dubious scholarship and academic practices that resemble indoctrination more than education.

· Donna Laframboise: a Canadian investigative journalist and writer who has written articles and editorials for Canada's National Post, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star. Most notably, she wrote the book The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics, which described feminism as “… a struggle for equality and justice for women that has been corrupted by power mongering and intolerance”.

· Suzanne McCarley: after discovering several men’s rights sites more than a decade ago, McCarley “…spent the better part of a year reading and learning, debating and thinking” about MRA issues and finally emailed A Voice for Men’s founder Paul Elam, asking what she could do to help. Since that email she became AVFM Senior Editor and has authored many incisive articles exposing feminism’s lies and hatred for men. A recent article (May 2023), An anonymous letter from a mom, is must-reading for anyone who wonders why men are organizing against feminism and why so many are opting out of relationships or marriage with women.

· Wendy McElroy: is a Canadian “individualist feminist” and is the editor of the website ifeminists.net. She is the author of the book Rape Culture Hysteria: Fixing the Damage Done to Men and Women, in which she contends that rape culture is a result of popular hysteria to the disadvantage of men, and in particular, white men.

· Mallory Millett: younger sister of Kate Millett, published an article Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives where she disclosed to the world what was really going on behind the scenes in the feminist movement.

· Kate O’Beirne: a former Washington editor of National Review and a TV political analyst, O’Beirne often spoke out against feminist fabrications and excess, including contesting feminist lies about abortion, including that the right to abortion only extended to the first trimester when in fact it often extended to the end of pregnancy – and even when the child came out, by accident, born alive.

O’Beirne wrote the book Women Who Make the World Worse and how their radical feminist assault is ruining our schools, families, military and sports, that “shows how feminists destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including fractured families and dispensable dads, offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the gender wars, and military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineering.

‘As a woman, Kate O’Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with. In her long-awaited first book, she takes on America’s leading feminists, including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, … She confronts them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.” [from Amazon book description]

· Camille Paglia: a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Paglia is a critic of contemporary American feminism and author of a number of books including Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and Vamps and Tramps: New Essays (1994), in which she stated an obvious truth vehemently denied by feminists:

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”

· Tara J. Palmatier: Founder of Shrink4Men, an organization that helps men in abusive relationships: “Men who are in abusive relationships in which the perpetrator is a woman do not have the same support resources as their female counterparts.”

· Daphne Patai: Wrote two books that examined the excesses of feminism: Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism and with co-author Noretta Koertge, Professing feminism: Cautionary tales from the strange world of women’s studies. Both were scathing criticisms of feminism, political and sexual correctness, and “the sexual harassment industry”.

· Deborah Powney: As profiled on the J4MB website, Powney is a PhD psychology researcher who specializes in domestic violence from a non-gendered perspective and is the driving force behind Walking to Recovery: A study for male survivors.

· Sue Price is director and co-founder with her husband Reg Price, of Men’s Rights Agency — a non-profit, organization established in Australia in 1994 to provide support for men and fathers who find themselves facing family separation or discrimination problems.

· Natoya (Natty) Raymond: a Honey Badger and supporter of men’s rights, Natty achieved men’s rights activism fame when she chased a woman who threw a milkshake on Mike Buchanan in May 2019. Video here.

· Katie Roiphe: is an American author and journalist, best known for her book The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism. She is also known for allegedly planning to name the creator of the Shitty Media Men list in an article for Harper’s magazine.

Helen Smith: a forensic psychologist, wrote the book Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream — and Why It Matters, which describes why “…men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century.”

· Judith Shulevitz: an American journalist, editor and culture critic who has written for Slate, The New York Times, and The New Republic. She wrote an article about Title IX abuses in The New Republic, Accused College Rapists Have Rights, Too.

· Christina Hoff Sommers: Author of two books, “Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women” and “The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men”.

· Hannah Spier, MD is a Norwegian psychiatrist based in Switzerland and is the author of the “Psychobabble” Substack and YouTube sites. After having her first child, she spoke about her change in outlook about men: “I experienced that deeply, along with a fierce outpouring of affection and angry protectiveness towards young men (and all men.) I found myself identifying viscerally with the men who have been subject to mistreatment and injustice or even simply to the blame and shame that our culture radiates at male persons. It hit me like a tidal wave when I was a university teacher, and the sense of moral outrage has never left.”

· Sonja Starr: A University of Chicago law professor, has written about the sentencing gap between American men and women. Starr has found that men receive 63 percent longer sentences in federal cases, on average, than women, with women being twice as likely to avoid incarceration for identical crimes.

· Christine Rosen, née Stolba: wrote two books with Diana Furchtgott-Roth that challenged feminist lies and propaganda, including Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America that debunks  the glass ceiling, the wage gap, and the “pink ghetto”, by revealing faulty methodological assumptions behind these myths and The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough, that dispels the myth that women need government programs to protect them and shows why feminists want to keep this myth alive. Also wrote Lying in a Room of One's Own: How Women's Studies Textbooks Miseducate Women that reveals how women’s studies in the nation’s universities teach a slanted, dishonest view of men and gender relations.

· Karen Straughan, a Honey Badger, and “… a men’s rights activist who has created many videos on her Girl Writes What” YouTube channel. [Individual article]

· Libby Telford: Medium writer who does research, analysis, and writing about men falsely accused of and wrongfully convicted for sexual offences. She also writes for SocialTheoryWatch.org, the home of Canada’s only Wrongful Sex Crime Conviction Database, The Lighthouse Project. She helped to develop the Survivors of False Allegations . Finally, she makes YouTube videos as Clary Jaxon.

Dianna Thompson: is a nationally recognized expert on families and divorce-related issues and co-founder of the group Women Against Paternity Fraud. Dianna is an authority on domestic family policy. A longtime political analyst, lobbyist, and spokesperson, she has testified nationwide on legislation that affects families and served as the Chairman of the Family Law Reform Committee in Los Angeles, CA. Thompson is also an expert in paternity fraud and was instrumental in drafting the very first paternity fraud bill in CA and has testified on similar bills in other states.

· Allison Tieman, a Honey Badger, “… has been researching men’s issues since her mother gave her “Princess at the Window” by Donna Laframboise in 1994 when she was 16.”

· Suzanne Venker: An outspoken critic who speaks out against feminism’s “… false messaging women have absorbed about men, sex, marriage, work and family”. She has written several anti-feminism books including 7 Myths of Working Mothers: Why Children and (Most) Careers Just Don't Mix (2008), The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can't Say (2011), and The War on Men (2013). Venker has her own website and a YouTube channel. Interestingly, she is also a niece of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.

· Norah Vincent: an author and columnist, Vincent is probably best known for her 2006 book, Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man, the story of how she posed as a man and integrated into several male groups. As a result of this experience, she recognized that she more fully realized the benefits of being female and the disadvantages of being male, stating, "Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don't have it better. They need our sympathy, they need our love, and they need each other more than anything else. They need to be together."

Due to her experience as a man during the making of Self-Made Man she ultimately had a depressive breakdown, leading Vincent to admit herself to a locked psychiatric facility, stating it was the high price she paid for "the burden of deception" of a separate identity. Vincent ultimately died via assisted suicide in Switzerland in 2022, aged 53.

· Esther Vilar: Vilar is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man. The book argues that, contrary to feminist claims, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating men. Vilar has been “spat upon, shouted down, sued, picketed, [and] threatened by bombs…” for her bravery in telling the truth. [Individual article]

· Hannah Wallen, a Honey Badger, “…has witnessed women’s use of criminal and family courts to abuse men in five different counties, and began writing after she saw one man’s ordeal drag on for seven years…”. [Individual article]

· Rachel Wilson is an anti-feminist who says “I think feminism ruined everything for everyone. It has destroyed society. She writes and speaks the truth about feminism’s dark side on Substack and YouTube, and wrote a book, Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation: (The book is a bit “out there” for me, but some might enjoy it.)

· Ruth Wisse is a former Harvard professor who criticized feminism as a form of Marxism: “Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.”

· Beverly Willett: after her own ordeal facing the injustices of family court, this former lawyer is currently a co-Chairman of the Coalition for Divorce Reform. She is also an author with articles about divorce, marriage and parenting published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, and Salon.com. Her recent book Disassembly Required: A Memoir of Midlife Resurrection, provides her personal account of her own experience in the American divorce industry. “The fallout from no-fault divorce has thus been financially,  emotionally and physically devastating to divorced families with increases in poverty, suicide, depression, drug and alcohol abuse and more…”

· Lee Burdette Williams:  a former university dean of students, Williams resigned in reaction to misguided Title IX policies that unfairly treated young men accused of sexual assault. In an article, Full Exposure - Sharing the meaning of manhood (PDF) Williams wrote: “I understood something that, until that moment, had been well beyond my comprehension: that my male students are as crushed by the expectations of a gender-based society as any of my female students, that they are denied too much of what they need as humans who hurt, who love, who seek connection, and the cost is profound.”

· Emily Yoffe: is an American journalist who has written extensively about campus sexual assault and the Obama administration’s effort to end it, describing it as “a worthy goal that went awry”. She wrote a series on campus sexual assault for The Atlantic. Her article in Slate, The College Rape Overcorrection was a National Magazine Award finalist in Public Service in 2015.

· Katherine K. Young is a Canadian religious studies professor at McGill University who has also coauthored with Paul Nathanson several books about misandry, including Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture (2001), Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Me (2006), and Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History of Men (2015).

Women Who Have Spoken Out About Female DV

See Medium article Domestic Violence: Feminism’s Big Lie for short quotes about DV from these women.

· Mary Cleary: formed the organization AMEN (Abused MEN, renamed Men’s Aid Ireland). She observed that male victims of domestic violence were systematically denied their basic human rights

· Faith Tkalac: Tkalac’s son was killed after being deliberately struck by a car driven by his girlfriend Melissa Oates in Australia. Oates was convicted of dangerous driving and sentenced to only 14 months imprisonment. Tkalac is now a member of the group Mothers of Sons, and is raising awareness of intimate partner violence against all people regardless of gender. She has recently proposed Jari's Law, in honor of her son, Jari Wise.

· Terrie Moffitt: domestic violence researcher who concluded that Women report using violence in their relationships more often than men

· Kathleen Parker: syndicated columnist, author of Save the Males, wrote an article Men Aren’t the Only Abusers

· Patricia Pearson: author of book When She Was Bad — Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

· Melanie Phillips: an English journalist who wrote a book The Sex Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male, described how feminism had become an “unchallengeable orthodoxy” in England. Her book describes an ominous campaign launched by the British government’s Cabinet Office Women’s Unit

· Erin Pizzey: founded the world’s first women’s shelter in England in 1971. She observed that most women in the refuge were as violent as their male partners. She wrote a book, Prone to Violence that told the truth about female violence. Feminist extremists hounded her out of the country [Individual article]

· Suzanne Steinmetz: was a domestic violence researcher who wrote a book, The Battered Husband Syndrome (PDF). She received death and bomb threats from feminists for daring to expose the extent of female perpetuated DV. [Individual article]

· Cathy Young: cofounder and vice-president of the Women’s Freedom Network, wrote a book Ceasefire! Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality. [Individual article]

· Nancy Updike an American writer in 1999 wrote an article Hitting the Wall in “Mother Jones” magazine. The article described a study performed by female psychology professor Terrie Moffitt of the University of Wisconsin.

Reactionary Feminists

“Reactionary Feminism” is a term coined by British writer Mary Harrington in a 2021 article, Reactionary Feminism, that challenged many of feminism’s basic tenets, in particular the feminist assertion that “gender is a cultural construct”, i.e. that differences between the sexes are a result of “patriarchal indoctrination”.

Reactionary feminism views men and women as equal in dignity and capacity for excellence but as physiologically different, and that there are certain universal, innate, biologically-based features of gender that are at the root of many of the group differences observed in the behavior of men and women. Harrington summarized it nicely: “Realizing my body isn’t something I’m in but something I am is the heart of the case for reactionary feminism.”

Here are a few of the leading reactionary feminists:

· Mary Harrington: author of book Feminism against Progress, and publisher of Substack newsletter Reactionary Feminist. In her 2021 article Harrington describes her reevaluation of her feminist worldview after marrying: “Whereas radical feminists tend to see patriarchy as akin to a mass conspiracy to oppress women, I’ve come to see it as the aggregate result of historical human efforts to balance the conflicting interests of the two sexes. It has sometimes given rise to abuses and injustices, which are rightly condemned. But the solution is not to be found in some state of perfect symmetry between the sexes. For this cannot be had—the sexes are not interchangeable.”

· Louise Perry: a journalist and author, Perry wrote the book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, in which she argues that individual physical variation “is built upon a biological substrate. Liberal feminists and trans activists may do their best to deny this, but it is still true that only one half of the human race is capable of getting pregnant, and—failing the invention of artificial wombs—this will remain true indefinitely.”

· Nina Power: an English writer and philosopher, Power is a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact. In her book What Do Men Want? she argues “… for an understanding of historic features of relations between sexes and historic values and virtues to live better together and that there are some biological components to behavioural differences between men and women”

· Dr. Carrie Gress: wrote the book The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us, in which she “… punctures the myth of feminism, exposing its legacy of abuse, abandonment, and anarchy. From the serpent’s seduction of Eve to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Kate Millett’s lust, violence, and insanity to Meghan Markle’s havoc-ridden rise to royalty, Gress presents a history as intriguing as the characters who lived it. The answers women most desperately need, she concludes, are to be found precisely where they are most afraid to look.”

Other Women Protesting Feminist-Inspired Abuses Against Sons, Fathers, Husbands

· Mothers of Sons: “…a group of ordinary women whose sons have faced extraordinary ordeals in our unjust, anti-male legal systems and workplaces.”

· Save Our Sons: A site dedicated to the families whose college sons have been falsely accused of sexual misconduct under draconian Title IX policies established by the U.S. Department of Education.

· Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE): “The mission of FACE is to support and advocate for equal treatment and due process for those affected by inequitable Title IX campus disciplinary processes, and influence campus culture through outreach and education.”

Wikipedia Category: Female critics of feminism

During my research I stumbled on a Wikipedia page that lists many female critics of feminism. Although my list somewhat overlaps the Wiki list, I provide it here for completeness. Note that I would never include some of these women as “Women of the Manosphere” due to some of their extreme political views.

1. The determination of which women to include in this list was sometimes challenging. The original idea was to only include women who specifically described themselves as “anti-feminist” or “men’s rights activists”. However, as the work to compile the list of names advanced, it was decided that this original selection criteria was too narrow as it excluded women who, while not considering themselves “anti-feminist”, nevertheless were speaking out or writing about the dark and dishonest side of feminism. It was decided to use a single criterion for selection: “women who have spoken out against feminist lies and hatred”.