Her appearances on The Bolt Report and Mark Latham's Outsiders, has won her a legion of fans and a few non-fans along the way.
She is a vibrant, brave, outspoken journalist and a strong advocate for Men's Rights and is very clear about the reasons why she no longer considers herself to be a feminist.
Her twitter feeds are both entertaining and informative and well worth a follow - Daisy Cousens Twitter - as well as her articles in Quadrant and The Spectator publications.
Daisy and I have much in common, particularly our performance history in entertainment. We both appeared in Wiggles DVDs and both managed to go on to bigger and better things in life.
She is listed as an outspoken feminist on the US website SHESAID but that was a whole lifetime ago for Daisy who soon liberated herself by turning her back on feminism. Talking with Andrew Bolt, she described feminism as a "cult" and after leaving felt "more empowered than I ever have".
Daisy is a champion for the extraordinary documentary The Red Pill and has been heavily involved in having it screened here in Sydney. There was much controversy surrounding the screening of the Red Pill at Sydney University in May, 2017 and Daisy promoted it heavily on Twitter to encourage people to attend and support the screening, which was not well-received by all. Osman Faruqi, News and Politics Editor of website Junkee, commented on Daisy promoting the event "despite not being a student at the university". The screening was not endorsed by the university’s student union, but it went ahead with the support of three groups - Students for Liberty, the Conservative Club and BROSoc.
But you don't have to go far at all on a university campus to find a bunch of activists to stage a protest, and sure enough a group assembled outside the venue including a group called Fascist Free USyd. This group however seemed to hijack the event to protest against racism and islamophobia, which, if you actually watch the film, plays no part in it. They even managed to stage a "Free Palestine" chant which would have bemused those attending the film. Faruqi reported on Daisy Cousens' behaviour at the event as "deriving a lot of enjoyment out of egging the protestors on".
But the protestors only highlighted the problems that The Red Pill presents, Men's issues are being cast aside as unimportant in today's society and Women's issues are front and centre. A left wing protestor and one of the organisers of the protest, Eleanor Morley, was quoted in Faruqi's article correctly identifying that “the film argues that struggles for women’s liberations have gone so far that women are now structurally oppressing men around the world" but then describes that as being "laughable" then raising her views about disadvantages and discrimination that face women.
And just to kick it in the you-know-where, she then does the usual feminist, left-wing practise of burying the people involved with hideous labels so that they are discredited so badly, in order to stop people listening to what they have to say. “It features a whole bunch of disgusting figures of the alt-right who hold deeply racist, homophobic and Islamophobic views... we want to make sure the film’s misogynistic, right-wing views are countered with a left-wing, anti-racist message.”
No wonder Daisy enjoyed egging them on, it is a university after all - not the real world.
This week, Bettina Arndt sat down with Daisy Cousens and discussed the rise of women defending men's rights and the attack on feminists in a brilliant article in The Australian June 5th, 2017. Daisy describes her reasoning for turning away from feminism in greater detail with Arndt. “I realised the feminist view did not reflect my life experiences. I grew suspicious. I couldn’t believe that somehow in Western society women were paid less than men or had fewer rights than men. And given my experience of men, I refused to believe there was an undercurrent of misogyny among all the wonderful men in my life,”
Daisy Cousens is presenting a Fan Force screening of The Red Pill on June 21st, 2017 at Events Cinema in George Street Sydney and is confident of a full house, however the event still needs your support as it is yet to reach the tipping point to go ahead. Sydney people, even if you have already seen the film, let's come together and support this documentary publicly and show Sydney and the rest of Australia that we welcome these views and publicly put our faces and names to the cause. Go to Daisy Cousens - The Red Pill now. I would love to see you there.
Hats Off to Daisy Cousens! Thank you for your continued support on Men's Rights and issues facing men today.
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