MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye | TEDxMarin

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a thoughtful account from a feminist on men's issues and the cost of saying unpopular things.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TEDx Talks

Topic

men's rights movement

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• The Red Pill documentary by (feminist!) Cassie Jaye opened my eyes to what MRAs are all about. It's a fascinating watch, and I'd honestly be astonished at anyone who comes away from watching it thinking that they have no legitimacy. Her TED talk: [VIDEO]

• How is my statement biased? Men can suffer from unfair treatment as well. I never said anything to discount feminism, I simply stated one case where men are treated less well then women and I caveated that statement saying that this was based off of …

• Indeed. This is a good TEDx talk from a feminist who went to make a documentary about what she described as "a misogynistic hate-group working against women's equality" and about what she learned after a year interviewing "the enemy". [VIDEO]