A French government official's attempt to ban a feminist book called 'I Hate Men' appears to have backfired after it sold out. Sales of Pauline Harmange's 'Moi les hommes, je les déteste' skyrocketed after Ralph Zurmély, a special adviser to France's ministry for gender equality, called it an 'ode to misandry [a hatred of men].' The 25-year-old activist's book argues that 'anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path, if it is allowed to be expressed', and explores whether women 'have good reason to hate men'. Monstrograph has denied that the book is an incitement of hatred, and called the book a 'feminist and iconoclastic book' that 'defends misandry as a way of making room for sisterhood'. She said that her experience working with rape and sexual assault victims in France has made her distrust men she does not know, according to The Times.

Source: Daily Mail September 11, 2020 09:42 UTC