By Serina Sandhu: Jess Phillips has said the anti-feminist men’s rights group handing out leaflets to Birmingham Yardley voters are “weak” misogynists. The Society to Establish a Minister for Men’s leaflet is asking voters in Ms Phillips’ constituency whether they really want a “feminist as your MP”. The poster, which contains a number of quotes from women about feminism, urges people to support the society to “protect your sons… and your grandsons from feminism”.
Ms Phillips has shared images of the poster, which says: “Ladies, pass this leaflet to a friend who has a male in her life whom she loves – her husband, son, father… Gentleman, do you really want to vote for someone who seriously dislikes you?” Ms Phillips suggested the group was intimidated by women. “These are very weak people who are obviously scared of women who speak up,” she told i. “Perhaps they don’t have anyone who loves them, which I suppose is a pity.” The politician branded the leaflets “misogyny”.
‘Normal feminist behaviour’ The poster claims that Ms Phillips was “laughing and sniggering” when Conservative candidate Philip Davies spoke about suicide among young men.
“Laughing and sniggering at these personal tragedies is a horrendous insult to the parents of young men who have sadly taken their own lives. This shaming of, and disrespect for, young men and boys is normal feminist behaviour. Is this what you want from your MP?” it reads. The society, chaired by Swayne O’Pie (the author of Why Britain hates men: exposing feminism), also claims that feminism “receives special legal protection to insult men and boys at will”. Neither of these claims are true and Jess Phillips has said she “really really” does care about men’s mental health. Mr O’Pie told i: “This is nothing vindictive against Jess Phillips [or] certainly against her being an outspoken women. “I came up here [Birmingham Yardley]… because I was homeless and a single parent with three sons and we had to live in a church for 12 months. One of my three sons tried… suicide twice and it was that which upset me when she was laughing and sniggering at the fact that Philip Davies wanted to have a committee specifically on male suicide. “We [the group] are anti-feminist but not anti-women. It’s not at all misogynistic.”
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