One of the “stars” of the documentary was missing Alphas has Everyone is talking about itSunday evening: Joël McGuirk, co-host of the Lucid podcast and apostle of the submission of women to the natural authority of men.
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Updated at 7:15 a.m.
Included in the list of guests which was revealed on Friday, the bearded Joël McGuirk was disinvited from -’s high mass on Sunday noon, after a weekend of protests where thousands of viewers decried the participation of masculinists with retrograde ideas to such a popular television show.
A petition was even posted online on Saturday by sexology professional Anne-Marie Ménard, author of the book In bed with Anne-Marie: female sexuality without taboos, for more pleasurein order to cancel the appearance of podcasters Julien Bournival-Vaugeois and Joël McGuirk at Guy A. Lepage.
More than 25,000 people signed the document entitled “No to the alpha male platform” before the broadcast of Everyone is talking about itand their anger was half heard.
Julien Bournival-Vaugeois, a libertarian Trumpist who lives in Tampa Bay, was not excluded. But the bodybuilder Joël McGuirk was replaced on the set by the professor of political science at UQAM Francis Dupuis-Déri, who also testifies in the documentary Alphaswhich you can watch this Monday at 8 p.m. on Télé-Québec.
It was not - which demanded the departure of Joël McGuirk, who spreads even more regressive and sexist remarks than his comrade Julien Bournival-Vaugeois. The decision was made by the team of Everyone is talking about itin light of the internet that has caught fire in the last 48 hours.
“We listen, we are sensitive. This is a truly polarizing topic. It was important for us to add a counterbalance, as we did in the documentary. It’s such a hot topic and we didn’t anticipate that the documentary would come out immediately after the election of Donald Trump. The phenomena of alpha males and Trumpists are closely linked,” notes the co-producer of Everyone is talking about it Guillaume Lspérance, who also produced the documentary Alphas for Télé-Québec.
Guillaume Lspérance is not the only one to wear two hats in this affair: the editor-in-chief of Everyone is talking about itManuelle Légaré, also co-wrote and co-directed Alphas with journalist Simon Coutu. Smaller than that of Quebec television.
Now, should we not have addressed this worrying social phenomenon, led by the king of the manosphere, Andrew Tate? No, we had to talk about it. This is a subject of highly public interest and it’s been a long time since an episode of Everyone is talking about it had brewed so much.
“For ten years we have been burying our heads in the sand and not listening to the silent majority. I never thought Donald Trump could get a second term. It also looks like Pierre Poilievre is going to sweep Canada. The strategy of burying your head in the sand is a monumental failure. We will have to realign our vision and our way of debating collectively,” thinks producer Guillaume Lspérance.
For his part, “dating coach” Joël McGuirk said he was a victim of Marxism and “the dominant woke ideology”. “You are ridiculous, Everyone is talking about ithe criticized on his Instagram account. I won’t even be able to defend myself, worst cheap shot ever. »
Joël McGuirk then published the message of justification sent to him by the editor-in-chief of Everyone is talking about itManuelle Légaré: “Sorry, we have to cancel your presence on the show this evening. There is a lot of adversity and we made the decision to rebalance the field and invite a specialist to add context.”
Manuelle Légaré tried to speak on the phone with Joël McGuirk before texting him on Sunday noon. He couldn’t answer, because he was at church.
In the end, the discussion on this return of men to traditional values was tense and quite disjointed. In aggressive mode, entrepreneur Julien Bournival-Vaugeois (he sells heat pumps) dodged questions and even questioned his participation in Simon Coutu’s investigation.
We felt that the drag queen Mona from Grenoble and the actress Christine Beaulieu would have wanted to intervene more, and this is probably what Julien Bournival-Vaugeois wanted: to provoke to become the poor victim of the progressive and leftist pack of Plateau Mont-Royal. Fortunately, co-host MC Gilles and Véronique Cloutier, very invested in the debate, did not take this bait.
Everyone is talking about it was not the first show to receive controversial masculinists on the air. Thursday morning, Pénélope McQuade devoted 33 minutes of her 95.1 FM radio show to the documentary Alphas by interviewing journalist Simon Coutu, professor Francis Dupuis-Déri and influencer Julien Bournival-Vaugeois. This segment, however, was pre-recorded the day before to ensure that nothing spilled over.
At QUB radio (99.5 FM), columnist Sophie Durocher received Julien Bournival-Vaugeois, Simon Coutu and columnist Rémi Villemure on Friday. The discussions, conducted live, lasted 45 minutes.
Have these broadcasts contributed to the amplification and normalization of degrading discourse? No. They have surely made many parents aware of this not very reassuring trend.
Because the young men who could have been influenced by these emulators of Andrew Tate are not looking Everyone is talking about itdo not listen to - radio and do not tune into QUB radio. They browse on TikTok or Instagram, where this misogynistic mentality has been traveling for several years already. And it’s neither Guy A. Lepage, nor Pénélope McQuade, nor Sophie Durocher who will teach them that.
