"This is a very touchy subject that does, you know, quickly offend people so I'll use my words wisely," she said. #TheProjectTV How do people not understand that Feminism means equality of the sexes, and not man-hating? “I didn’t know about that, but that is interesting because it shows there are male victims of domestic violence.” "Sorry, that's the lesson you took from that?" Image: Channel 10. “It was her son that passed?” Jaye responded. I think that is why your film has hit a nerve,” Bickmore said. “We’re really trying to move forward and get on a path where women aren’t dying. The US documentary – which offers an alternative perspective on male privilege by exploring suicide rates, sexual assault and custody issues – has earned unprecedented backlash here in Australia, with a number of cinemas around the country cancelling screenings.ĭuring an interview on The Project this evening, the filmmaker said she is “curious what is different about Australia that makes this topic so polarising and so fearful.”īy way of an explanation, panel host Carrie Bickmore raised the fact that “domestic violence is really on the agenda” here – largely thanks to the advocacy work of Rosie Batty, whose son was publicly murdered by his own father in 2014. But after producing and directing a film about men’s rights activism called The Red Pill, she claims she realised she was no longer comfortable with the concept.
Cassie Jaye used to be feminist, a proud one, a vocal one.
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