According to Nina Power’s forceful and rather unusual What Do Men Want?, we in the West are currently engaged in a ‘battle over sex’. And while that has been going on, ‘another war is being waged. This one is against men, the whole damn lot of them!’ To back up this ‘war on men’ idea, Power cites, among other examples, I Hate Men, a book by the French writer Pauline Harmange in which she damns men as ‘violent, selfish, lazy and cowardly… men beat, rape and murder us’.
Jay Elwes
Is it an exaggeration to talk of a ‘gender war’?
It is clearly unjust that men wield more power than women — but our politicians, and the British electorate, don’t seem to care that much
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