Complete BS. Nafees Alam should be utterly ashamed of himself, for his complete ignorance about feminism in particular.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
This minor story shows the double standards A male-only publisher to fight toxic masculinity? I have a better idea First of all the publisher has no where said his initiative has anything to do with fighting anything. Rather a small step to encourage working class writers. But of course any attempt to address an initiative for men; has to be disparaged (or in the Guardian insulted). Now there is merit in an argument that maybe as the majority of consumers of fiction are women it shouldn’t surprise that women novelists predominate. And were such “supply and demand” arguments used in other spheres that would be fine. But as we know this isn’t the case in football and sports in general as instances of industries distorted by DEI. The preferences of supporters are “misogyny” and the supply must reflect quotas not the customer’s demands. The same in many fields where , for example, the simple fact women apply to be admin. and men plasterers and supply and demand is reflective of this is “sexism” to be rectified by somehow getting women to be plasterers (but not of course men to be administrators).
And the argument is at core a lie. As I have commented before a friend who is a script writer with years of experience and success has for a decade now used a female nom de plume because he knows his submissions will not get beyond the first level, in ITV, C4 and of course the BBC. So “supply and demand” is not allowed to operate when the objective is to exclude males. As it is in much of the media and arts world.
The writer is naive to think that somehow there is some equality in the movements he describes. Feminism is the established orthodoxy of those in power, with statutes and interventions supported by law and Governance designed specifically to treat males as second class and to hobble them. Whatever the “manosphere” may or may not be it certainly is not the orthodoxy of the Institutions of Political and Institutional power and has no therefore no power. To get a British Prime Minister to get all schools to view Cassie Jay’s Red Pill Documentary for instance. The reaction to some mild mannered Professors creation of a tiny publishing business to publish new writing from men illustrates to imbalance perfectly.
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There is no “common ground” with feminism. It is blatant anti-male, misandristic sexism plain and simple.
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