I HATE MEN

I HATE MEN states the young French blogger and activist bluntly Pauline Harmange (Pauline Armandez) in the her feminist manifesto, signing a ode to misandry and in its expression as a means for the women's emancipation.

Have you ever wondered if there are serious reasons to hate men?

Violence, selfishness, laziness and cowardice are true children of patriarchy, According to Pauline Harmange, which claims the right to universal hatred of men and making exceptions for those who deserve them.

And of course, he also claims the right to express himself in writing. The book was first printed in August 2020 and the French Ministry of Equality tried to ban its release. Within two weeks, three reprints were sold out, while it has already been translated into 12 languages.

Pauline Armandez's book I hate men explores whether women have good reason to hate men, and whether their "anger" is actually a happy and convenient path to their emancipation, if they are allowed to express it. The publishing house Monstroph, which published the work in question, called it "a feminist and iconoclastic book, which defends misandry as a means to create space for solidarity among women.

With its international and domestic situation #MeToo movement, which in our country is already taking the form of an avalanche, the need to be freed from the shackles of patriarchy and the regime of self-silencing seems more imperative than ever.

Can misandry be a solution?

25-year-old Pauline Armande, militant feminist, activist and blogger, lives in Lille, northern France with her husband and cat. The I hate Men is her first book.

I HATE MEN is published in Greek by Acid publications in February 2021.