Why an Ottawa Theatre Pulled a Screening of a Men’s Rights Documentary

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'A documentary about men's rights activism will be screening in Ottawa today, but not at the venue organizers originally intended. Ottawa's city hall has picked up the booking, but a theatre owner says that hasn't stopped an army of online trolls from insulting staff and declaring rights have been violated.
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The documentary follows filmmaker Cassie Jaye as she listens to men inside the movement, some of whom compare feminism to white nationalism. MRA leaders tell her about health and domestic abuse issues from the perspective that men face greater discrimination than women, and are punished and ridiculed for voicing those concerns. The film shares a name with a Reddit forum in which men vent rage against women and discuss strategies for pushing women into submission.

Jaye told CBC venues in Australia also canceled the film. "I've noticed that most of us are very quick to laugh and scoff at men's issues but if the genders were reversed that would be hateful, hate speech, sexist, misogynist," she said.
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Demarbre said he even felt physically intimidated when he returned the film to CAFE members. He stressed the film itself was not part of his reason for canceling the screening.

"This whole decision had nothing to do with the movie, and everything to do with the CAFE society,"he said. "I don't want those guys in my building."'

Also see: Mayfair Theatre cancels showing of men's rights documentary The Red Pill

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