Laura Bates

Both worldviews rest heavily on the perception of women being without humanity, individuality or soul.

We are talking about an industry that exploits men’s worst fears, preys on their vulnerabilities and literally trains them in harassment, stalking and even sexual assault.

The strategy of trying to create false equivalence in deeply gendered issues is not only deliberately manipulative, but also undermines the cause of the real male victims who deserve help, support and sympathy

On the urgent and taboo topic of male victims of sexually violent men, they remain resoundingly silent.

applications by fathers were in fact “overwhelmingly successful

MRAs demonstrate a dogged and deliberately obtuse determination to lay the ills men suffer at the feet of those women who are often most invested in fighting to fix them

The homoerotic nature of the imagery was apparently not intentional.

It is not women, or even feminists, who have limited, frustrated, diminished, hurt and damaged men, but masculinity itself, or, rather, our society’s constricting, toxic, self-defeating version of what it means to perform being a man.

People who are just trying to provoke outrage with fake provocation don’t go out and kill people in real life. Incels do.

she was intensely harassed online by gamers, who saw her commentary as an attack on the industry and an unwelcome attempt to sanitise or ‘feminise’ it