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, Cassie Jaye.
Cassie 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.
The movie is described on Jaye’s Wikipedia page:
Jaye directed and produced the 2016 American documentary film The Red Pill about the men’s rights movement. Jaye spent a year interviewing men’s rights figures, such as Paul Elam, founder of A Voice for Men; Harry Crouch, president of the National Coalition for Men; Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power; and Erin Pizzey, who started the first domestic violence shelter in the modern world. She also interviewed critics of the movement, such as Ms. magazine executive editor Katherine Spillar, and sociologist Michael Kimmel. Jaye initially relied on her own money to fund the film, as well as that from her mother and her boyfriend, as she found difficulty finding backers from traditional sources after it became known that the film would take a “balanced approach” view of the men’s rights movement.
At the end of the film, Jaye states that she no longer identifies as a feminist, saying that she now believes that “feminism is not the road to gender equality”. Although she no longer calls herself a feminist, she has stated that she is “still an advocate of women’s rights and always will be” but is now “adding men to the discussion.”
Jaye gave a TEDx speech about her experience making The Red Pill. It focused particularly on how the process initially affirmed her feminist sense of otherism and outrage against the men’s rights movement, but then later broke it down. It was an “uncomfortable and humbling experience”, and one that turned her “from feminism to gender equality activism”.
Thank God for Cassie and women like her! They are literally one-in-ten-million!
For other articles about other Women of the Manosphere.
By Stephen Bond on February 2, 2023.
Exported from Medium on February 28, 2023.