One of the best-known cultural commentators in Europe
An event next week in Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Republic is pleased to host Milo Yiannopolous and Christina Hoff Sommers as they interview each other about the awful topic of contemporary Feminism.
Having failed to find a single member of the University of Minnesota’s Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Department to debate Milo on the (supposed) virtues of modern, third wave, “quantum superstate” feminism, we are delighted to announce that Christina Hoff Sommers will be joining Milo on stage for this event!
This event will be held in Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. REMINDER: This event is free, unticketed, and will be seated at a first come, first served basis.
This event will be free and open to all members of the public.
Milo Yiannopoulos is a journalist, broadcaster and internet personality. He is one of the best-known cultural commentators in Europe and his profile in America is rising rapidly thanks to fearless reporting about internet culture, video games, feminism, free speech and the effect of technology on society. He is a leading figure in the cultural libertarian movement and a senior editor at Breitbart.com.
You can find Milo’s work all over the internet, though the best place to start would be his own website.
Christina Hoff Sommers is an author and former philosophy professor who has written a number of books including “Who Stole Feminism” and “The War Against Boys” both of which are sharply critical of contemporary feminism. She is currently a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the host of a weekly video blog, “The Factual Feminist.” She coined the term “equity feminist” to describe her own philosophy, and to distinguish it from “victim” or “gender feminism.”
You can find her published works on Amazon.
No low too low.
Can I throw a brick out the window without hitting some American Enterprise libertarian twit?
I’m strangely hopeful because if it weren’t for those two books by Christina Hoff Sommers, I would never have become a feminist. When I was in college, I was rabidly antifeminist (largely the result of being astoundingly closeted even to myself); I had friends who were like walking caricatures of menstruation-celebrating goddess-worshipping hippie chicks who found endless amusement in letting me rant and rave and then explain how radically feminist I was being (which would generally lead to lots of rage on my part).
When I found Sommers’ books, particularly The War on Boys, they made perfect sense to me and affirmed every bad thing I thought about feminism and its adherents. At the time, there wasn’t any “manosphere” and even most internet-savvy people wouldn’t have heard of MRM or MRAs, so I saw a flyer for a new men’s rights group and was psyched to go.
Anyone who’s dealt with an MRA can probably already tell why attending that group totally shattered my illusions of the MRM. I got the impression I was unwelcome. It also seemed like nobody else wanted to talk about…anything. I saw all kinds of serious issues that weighed heavily on men, but it seemed like they were oblivious. I walked out of there shaken, totally bewildered by what the MRM was actually about if I’d managed to get it so wrong.
I ended up going to law school to pursue prisoners’ rights work, and I still think there are a lot of areas that a genuine Men’s Rights Movement could make a lot of progress in. But you know something interesting? Every organization I have worked with in those areas is overwhelmingly (if not exclusively) staffed and run by (feminist) women. One internship during law school had me seeking child support reductions, something that you’d think even angry internet MRAs would be all over, but we didn’t have even a single male applicant (the same nonprofit just posted a photo on FB showing the same trend now several years later). Everyone I’ve ever known who works on men’s rights issues has been both a feminist and a woman. Just sayin’.
The “fearless” bit is comedy gold. He had total mental breakdown because Twitter took away his blue tick.