Lessons in Misogyny: What Happens When ‘Bang Out Machete, Boom in the Face’ Ends in Tragedy.
On Tuesday night, failed-actor-turned-failed-politician-turned-now-unemployed-broadcaster, Laurence Fox ranted to now ex-host, Dan Wootton on ostensible news channel GB News
about journalist Ava Evans. If you haven’t seen it, you can have your day marginally ruined and watch it here:
In the interview – because this is the kind of stuff news channels should be concerned with, right – Fox refers to Evans as “that little woman”, asks “who would shag that?” and then answers his own delightful question with “cucked incels” because apparently men who see women as equals and aren’t scared of girls fall into the category of cuckolded men by manly-manly men like Laurence Fox, who spent his living (when he actually had one) having makeup applied for him and pretending to be other people – so real miner down a pit stuff.
On the same day, in Croydon London, a girl called Eliyanna Andam (15) was stabbed to death by an as yet unnamed boy (17) defending her friend who rejected the boy romantically. The boy produced a machete, and a promising young woman will never now see her sixteenth birthday and hundreds of young lives have now been senselessly affected and ruined.
To add serious insult to injury, Laurence Fox, smarting from the backlash from his weird misogyny then tried to use the murder of Eliyanna Andam (15) to deflect heat from himself and claim the corrupt MSM had all its priorities wrong, and he was just a victimised truth-teller.
What Fox entirely failed to understand in his cowardly deflection is the very sniffy rant he engaged in just a few hours before young Eliyanna Andam was murdered by an aggrieved, rejected boy are his rant and the boy’s killing of an innocent girl are connected.
Now, no one is saying Laurence Fox, and all his the-Matrix-is-out-to-get-you-Alpha-Male-Red-Pill dimwit acolytes are responsible for the murder of Eliyanna Andam, but they absolutely are contributing to an attitude and ideology that leads vulnerable and angry teenage boys to believe that a justified, reasonable, ‘manly’ response to female rejection is senseless violence, rather than say, having a quiet cry, confiding in a trusted mate or maybe looking inwards and asking why the girl rejected him – rather than, you know, killing her.
Because anyone who thinks powerful men with powerful platforms and large followings like Andrew Tate, Laurence Fox and Russell Brand who monetise misogyny, sexism, violence and teenage anger for personal gain and wealth exist in puckish, tech-bro bubbles are egregiously mistaken. Saying stuff like “bang out a machete, boom in the face”, “who would shag, that” and “I want to see her mascara run” might be both hilarious and most importantly lucrative to the people who said them (you probably don’t even need to Google who at this point), but they HAVE REAL-WORLD CONSEQUENCES for the millions of young people who follow and admire these dudes – as we saw with absolutely tragic consequences yesterday.
A promising young woman, let’s say her name again, Eliyanna Adams (15), actually got a machete from a boy who will have watched content from the aforementioned men and almost certainly would have believed he was fulfilling some Alpha-male right and rite-of-passage.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. This misogyny, casual violence, and sexism so many broadcasters and platforms (it’s not just GB News) show on a daily basis is not a funny, it’s dangerous and it’s hurting ALL young people, girls and boys – this is not some gender-based zero-sum game.
Let’s start taking it seriously, because yesterday a girl was lost to this toxic ideology and rhetoric.
There will be others unless we stop it now.