This weekend, a bunch of blokes who believe rape on private property should be legal and that women are biologically determined to follow the orders of men and should not be able to vote are meeting up in real life.
Yes, men who found each other on the internet and bonded over their backwards views of their own self-importance, creating an online “neomasculinist” group, will finally bring their views out from behind the safety of their screens and into the public domain.
According to the internet, ‘neomasculinity’ is all about men reclaiming their masculinity, rejecting “toxic women” and fixing the harm that feminism has wrought on gender relations.
US pick-up artist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh organised meetings at 44 locations around the world, including one at Sydney’s Hyde Park at 8pm on Saturday.
Fairfax Media reports the meetings are being advertised on Valizadeh’s website, Return of Kings, which has been ‘liked’ more than 12,500 times on Facebook.
Valizadeh – who advocates for the legalisation of rape – says women, transgender men and homosexual men are not invited.