So, for the first time in my life I tuned in to Hack Live last night, purely due to the subject matter and my interest in the Men's Rights movement. On the surface it looked like it would be a debate with a mix of feminists, antifeminists and a few random panellists chosen to discuss if male privilege is real or imagined.
The first thing I need to address is that this morning I invoked feminist Clementine Ford on Twitter in regards to this program, who dismissed my claim that it was... "A platform for (Clementine Ford) and the feminist narrative". Her response was indicative of the scope of her vocabulary. "Bullshit" which would be an adjective more appropriate to describe the Hack Live program in general.
Not sure if Cassie will respond or if Clementine will address my response as yet but will keep you posted.
They seemed to have included legitimate antifeminists such as Cassie Jaye, Daisy Cousens, Karen Straughan and the Honeybadger Brigade, which certainly drew my attention. But we also knew that this was a show produced and aired by the ABC and we are very familiar with the constant barrage of the feminist narrative and the aversion to cover men's issues on all other ABC media outlets. So we were expecting a biased program from the outset and that's exactly what it was - a well planned, well constructed platform for Clementine Ford and the feminist narrative.
Tom Tilley, the host of this show certainly played his part well. He showed respect to all the females and attacked the character of the only male antifeminist on the panel, for not using his real name. He constantly referred to the 'star' of his show, Clementine Ford as 'Clem' and showed great empathy for her being the victim of online trolling, which we later realise she gives just as good trolling as she gets, if not more, as she admitted. Tilley, read his lines carefully, never missed a cue, and diligently wrapped up the show obtaining final words from the feminist panel members only. If his aim was to push his own view, that of the programs, and that of the ABC, then it was a resounding success at the expense of truth and reason.
It was a very strange panel assembled for this show, and quite clearly imbalanced with three antifeminists against five feminists, plus the feminist host. The antifeminists were Adrian Johnson, Loren Murray, and the colourful Daisy Cousens.
The main feminist was of course Clementine Ford, but was backed up by four others who made no real impact on the argument. One such was Joe Williams who is described as a professional sportsman and youth mentor, but he may as well have been billed simply as an aboriginal. He had nothing to offer the debate in regards to male privilege, he just wanted to target racism and particularly white people. While looking very confident, happy, healthy, and very well dressed, he complained how much white privileged impacted him "every day". He constantly belittled Adrian Johnson, a white male, and showed no understanding of female stealthing at all. His response to the situation when a woman tricks a man into falling pregnant without his knowledge or consent was "called taking responsibility" i.e. the man. He somehow believes that men are the only ones required to be responsible in that situation. I have no idea why he was even chosen for this program.
Then there was transgender activist Nevo Zesin who had no interest in anything except his own gender fluidity focus, so his contributions were quite shallow and condescending. Whoever put this panel together clearly wasn't interested in a serious discussion about male privilege. Zesin argued that he had more privilege since becoming male, yet his manner and appearance was hardly that of an average or typical male to be able to claim that view. The way Zesin snubbed The Red Pill movie for being two hours long with a disinterested shrug, shows he doesn't seem to have much interest in male issues at all and seems still more aligned to his female past - literally.
Antifeminist Adrian Johnson was clearly unsettled and unprepared for his appearance on this program. He was ambushed by host Tom Tilley and grilled about why he was the only person on the panel that chose to use a false name on the show. Adrian must not have been expecting this somehow and often struggled and stumbled to reply. His wanted to protect his true identity from feminist activists in order to ensure he or his family and friends were not targeted by any feminist backlash for his comments. Adrian is known by that name on the Antifeminist Australia Facebook group and so it would make sense for him to appear under that name on the program, so a little research by Hack Live could have drawn that conclusion as well. Why they took issue about his name could only be for one reason, to ambush and discredit him, a typical feminist tactic. If they don't like the message, instead of proving it wrong, they label and attack the character of the person saying it. It was a shame that Adrian was out of his league to handle the ambush as it further weakened the ability for the antifeminists to get air time.
But then Loren hit a nerve, when asked why she signed a petition to have Clementine Ford sacked. Why this even came up on a show designed to discuss male privilege again can only be an attempt to discredit and ambush her as well. But Loren was ready for this and shot back that it was because Clementine defamed a friend of hers then blocked her friend from responding. This had been documented in the media previously. As soon at that hit and was about to gain traction or at least challenge Ford's own credibility, Tilley used his feminist privilege and talked over Loren to shut it down for another time and place. Then they targeted Daisy Cousens and her online tussles with Ford. But Cousens, who held her ground all evening, was well prepared for this and detailed the abusive comments from Ford and other feminists. Again, sensing the damage to Ford's credibility Tilley stepped in to stop the barrage from Cousens.
It was so blatantly obvious that this so-called discussion was a mouthpiece, if not an advertisement, for left-wing feminist ideology. Ford and the feminists got the lion share of the talk time and in between there were feminist experts in the audience to provide 'facts' from studies to prove the feministic opinion and discredit the antifeminist. They even had Michael Flood to disprove the rise in popularity of the men's rights movement. This is a man who lectures in gender studies at a tertiary level, which has been proven to be one of the key triggers for the hatred and aggression being instilled in feminists. Then we had Dr Rae Cooper trying to feed us manufactured statistics and discredited anyone else's figures other than those from the ABS. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recently fallen into disrepute with an enormous amount of errors and is highly infested with leftists and feminists alike. How can we accept statistics from the ABS given what we know?
The show was just cringe worthy and very difficult to sit though, but as an antifeminist I felt it is important to see just what crap is out there and what obstacles need to be overcome to get the truth out there. I didn't care that Ford dropped the C-word to proudly boast of calling Miranda Devine a cunt on Twitter as she just continued to prove that her type of person is truly bringing down the standards of feminist columnists and writers.
I was very glad Cassie Jaye did not allow herself to be a part of this show as I'm sure they had something just as vile in store for her to try and discredit her own reputation. Her email to the program showed very accurate insight from the young filmmaker.
"I already see so many warning signs of inherent bias based on the program's marketing.... I don't see what I can gain by being a part of this when it's clear that the show is going to give selective and limited airtime to certain guests over others."
I shared my praise for her decision to pull out on Twitter and was delighted to receive the following response.
Finally, the grandest supporter of men's issues in Australia, Bettina Arndt published this awesome video in response to Hack Live. Sometimes words just don't do justice to the level of crap presented in such a god-awful program, so here's Bettina's Clip - let her words say more than I can.
Hats Off to Loren, Daisy, Cassie and Bettina! Thank you for supporting your ever-grateful male companions.
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