STEFAN MOLYNEUX reviews the Disney movie Maleficent, which he offers as a disturbing look at the selfishness and self-glorification of women today.  The moral of the movie: “Men are disposable slaves. Women are dark, justified goddesses of retaliatory magic.”

“It is not healthy to tell women that men are bad. It is not healthy to tell daughters that fathers are bad. It is not healthy to tell wives that husbands are bad, because the absence of fathers is killing the world,” he says.

“A society without respect for men has no respect for nature, or property, or currency, or solvency, for its own children or its own future, which shortens every day.”

But for a little off-color language in this, which is why I wouldn’t recommend listening to it when children are in the room, this is very well done. However, Molyneux ventures into “men’s rights” hyperbole when he says women are proven to be more abusive than men. No one could possibly prove that.

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Tristan Majewski writes:

I wanted to comment on your recent post about Stefan Molyneux’s review of “Maleficent.” While Molyneux may make some good points in this review, he’s someone I believe to be a charlatan; and despite his sometimes good stances on various issues, is overall an enemy of the family. So for this reason I feel duty bound to recommend that you post a disclaimer for your readers regarding the darker side of Molyneux. The best sources of evidence for are probably the websites fdrliberated.com and molyneuxrevealed.com

In brief, the worst things about Molyneux are that he:

-is a cult leader

-encourages the higher ups in his cult to “defoo” i.e. cease all contact with their “family of origin,” (mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents etc.)

-is a liar and probably a narcissist

He’s intelligent and right about some things, but I believe that promoting the even only the good things he says while remaining silent about his evil would be complicity with evil. I’m not accusing you of this since I believe you aren’t aware of his darker, frankly evil side; and that is why I feel a sense of duty to inform you. You’ve done so much good fighting for the traditional family, I would hate to see you accidentally promote an enemy of the family.

In closing I want to thank you for all the good writing you’ve done over the years. It’s been extremely helpful; and one of the influences in moving me from liberalism and agnosticism to tradition and the Catholic Church.

 Laura writes:

Thank you very much.

I had never even heard of Molyneux before I viewed this after a reader sent it. I guess that shows how little familiar I am with certain corners of the Internet.

Aservant writes:

I have never heard of this Sefan Molyneux and haven’t watched the video that you posted yet, although I plan to.  I am not writing regarding him nor his work; rather I write with a question for you Laura.

You said:

“Molyneux ventures into “men’s rights” hyperbole when he says women are proven to be more abusive than men. No one could possibly prove that.”

I am thinking that you may have said this sarcastically, especially the “no one could possibly prove that” part.   But most probably, you were sincere.  So my question is, how could it be possible that no one could possibly prove that women are more abusive than men?

I am not saying that I know that women are more abusive than men, nor am I saying that I have seen proof for this or even believe it.  What I would like to say though is that I find it surprising, that if I am to take your statement as sincere, that Moyneux’s statement would be characterized as hyperbole, maybe even nonsense on your part.  Even more so considering that you are an anti-feminist.

How often do we have absolute proof of anything?  Our legal system doesn’t even demand absolute proof.  Juries are instructed to find innocence or guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt” based on evidence presented, nothing more.

There was a post within the last month at “Women For Men” of a recent study that found that women were just as likely to be the aggressors in cases of domestic violence.  There are various studies that show that violent abuse against children is perpetrated by women in 70% of cases.  I had a very violent stepmother, an ex-girlfriend that assaulted me on several occasions, and I know of many, many other people that have had similar experiences.  I could continue on with a much longer list, these are just a few examples to make my point.

Of course, what I have written here doesn’t “prove” that women are more abusive than men, and I am addressing the female issue here only.  Men are abusers as well, this is well established, I would be a fool to deny this fact.  My concern is that by the way you stated what you did, it seems that even the possibility that women may be more abusive than men is anathema to you.  And if that is the case, this seems to be a very feminist mindset.

Laura writes:

I believe Molyneux’s words were — and I’d have to go back and view it again to get his exact wording — that it is statistically proven that women are emotionally and physically more abusive than men.

It is very possible that cruelty from women is more damaging. A psychotherapist told me once that most of her clients spent much of their time talking about their mothers and the lack of affirmation they felt from their mothers. But emotional abuse is not quantifiable and it can’t be proven how pervasive or damaging it is. As for physical abuse, we know for sure that there are fewer serious assaults of men, and fewer deaths of men, caused by women. Aggression is  a very loose term. I’m not saying that women are not physically violent or abusive or that this has not been downplayed by feminists. But I am very skeptical, to say the least, of claims that they are more physically violent and aggressive toward men than men are toward women. By the way, violent abuse of children is going to be much more common among women given the fact that many children do not live with men, especially in the classes where physical assault generally is more common, and children spend much more time with women.

Laura continues:

The relentless focus of feminists on the minority of men who are physically violent suggests that men are inherently bad and all men are potential abusers. This manufactured suspicion of men makes it easier for women to be callous and forge their own autonomy. Feminists never acknowledge in any meaningful way the goodness in men, or the feminine role in encouraging goodness in men, because that would undermine the goal of autonomy.

Rusty writes:

I tried to watch those “defoo,” or recovering cult members’, videos about Stefan Molyneaux, but they are filled with too much emotion and not enough facts.

I had watched a few Molyneaux videos myself and enjoyed them, although a few of his remarks stuck with me as being strange and I couldn’t figure out why he had made them. I thought these were earlier videos, when he was still trying to figure things out. When I saw his review of the movie, Frozen, however, I realized that he has a disturbing streak of madness. He is a dangerous person, in my opinion, to be talking to impressionable minds.

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