The masculinist movement, still not very present in Quebec, but which is gaining strength in the United States, is perceived as a sect by the facilitator Isabelle Maréchal, who believes that it will still be necessary to do prevention among young people to avoid their radicalization.
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“It’s like a cult after all. We are going to protect you, we are selling you the fact that you are going to be loved, that you are going to be appreciated for what you are,” she stressed during her column on LCN on Monday.
Promising to be a kind of “family”, this movement would speak to young men who are lacking male role models who sometimes become “preachers”.
This phenomenon was notably observed recently when an American far-right masculinist supremacist activist and political commentator, Nicholas J. Fuentes, mocked the feminist phrase “My body, my choice”.
“You will never have control of your own body! Your body, my choice,” he said in a video shared on social media.
“We lacked female models for a long time and we haven’t become that radical, but hey,” reacted Isabelle Maréchal.
“We must once again put forward gender equality. It is not because women today are egalitarian that men have lost, on the contrary, we are just on the point of equality,” she established.
If the presence of the movement is still limited in Quebec, there are still certain followers of “alpha males” who are in favor of a return to traditional values, according to a new documentary by journalist Simon Coutu.
The QUB radio host therefore believes that we must still be careful and “talk with our young people”.
