The “manosphere” is the term typically given to male opposition to feminism’s lies, hate, and misandry. But many women who are speaking out against feminism can legitimately be considered an integral part of the manosphere.
A list of these women can be found in my article Women of the Manosphere.
This article profiles just one these wonderful women, Bettina Arndt.
Bettina is an Australian writer and commentator who specializes in sex and gender issues. Starting as a sex therapist and self-proclaimed feminist, in the last two decades she has abandoned feminism and attracted controversy with her social commentary and her views on domestic violence and men’s rights.¹
The following is a description how Bettina went from calling herself a feminist to the realization that feminism had “gone off the rails”.
Man hating feminism? The question is whether there is any other kind. I used to think so. I started calling myself a “feminist” as a young woman in the 1970s after reading Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, ironically whilst working a university vacation job as a Hertz Rent-a-car girl, dressed in my bright yellow perked cap and mini skirt and flirting with American tourists.
I convinced myself that feminism was all about equality, about creating a level playing field where women could take their rightful place in the world, embracing opportunities once denied to them. But then I watched with increasing alarm as the current misandrist culture took hold, with the male of the species as the punching bag, and women shamelessly promoted and protected, infantilized and idealized. Feminism had gone off the rails, I concluded.
But it turned out that was wrong. Now I know the truth about feminist history …²
Under the banner of #MenToo, Bettina advocates for men by writing on substack and publishing videos on YouTube. She has also published a book, #MenToo that “…breaks the silence about what it means to be a man today”.
Finally, in 2018 Bettina ran a “Fake Rape Crisis Campus Tour” campaign where she toured Australian universities, warning about secret campus committees investigating and adjudicating rape accusations and to shut down unfair “campus kangaroo courts”. Her campaign was successful, ending in disciplinary actions against aggressive feminists who protested against Arndt’s presence on a university campus, as well as favorable court decisions against the abuses of college men’s rights at Australian universities.
Thank God for Bettina and women like her! They are literally one-in-ten-million!
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FOOTNOTES
From Bettina’s Wikipedia page.
By Stephen Bond on January 28, 2023.
Exported from Medium on February 28, 2023.