Moi les hommes, je les déteste, the controversial debut novel of 25 year-old Pauline Harmange, began in 2019 as a blog post in which she shared her frustrations with men’s apathy and overall disinterest in feminism and the frustrations experienced by women. Harmange was thrilled when obscure publisher, Monstrograph, offered to publish her volume and print 400 copies.
The story and her fame would have ended there except that an adviser to France’s ministry on gender equality demanded the book be banned on the grounds that the title tended to incite hatred. This heavy handed attempt at control generated significant buzz, resulting in Harmange’s misandrist manifesto enjoying a print run of 20 000 copies in France with additional requests for the book to be translated into 16 languages. Harmange, describes herself as the ‘harbinger of the feminist storm’ and confessed that despite the title of her manifesto: ‘I chose to marry one anyway, and to this day, I have to admit that I love him very much.’
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