‘Sorry, chaps, but feminism hasn’t gone nearly far enough’

Article here. Excerpt:

'Every couple of years since the dawn of time – or at the very least, feminism – a study will be released which shows that some people think the movement has gone too far. Those people will mostly be male, but the researchers carrying out the poll will be sure to find a healthy dollop of females who have also had enough of feminism, to prove that the men they surveyed weren’t all reactionary old dinosaurs/sex-starved incels, just decent, hard-working blokes who have had enough of all this Votes for Women rubbish.

This week, it’s the turn of the red-hot blooded men of Spain to have their say. The geography of this poll is no coincidence: the country has seen a host of feminist policy introduced in the past few years, including paid menstrual leave for people suffering from extreme period pain. The study by the country’s National Centre for Sociological Research found that 44 per cent of men believe feminism has gone too far and that they are now discriminated against, with a third of women backing them up.

I wonder if one of the men questioned was Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish FA, who last year caused uproar when, while celebrating the World Cup win of the women’s team, he grabbed Spain’s leading goalscorer, Jenni Hermoso, and kissed her on the lips. You’ll remember that Hermoso described the kiss as non-consensual, while Rubiales described the backlash against him as “fake feminism”. Last week, he launched an NFT (non-fungible token), claiming it was intended “to support real equality”.'