However, he was the subject of several proposed marriage alliances, in spite of his well known misogyny.

But I'm confident that whatever social, cultural, political and economic problems I personally face, these are challenges that can be fought instead of simply blaming them on misogyny.

Other men's charities such as the DYN Project and the Men's Advice Line dispute the view that male only refuges are necessarily wanted or needed by most victims, saying that the issue has been misrepresented out of misogyny rather than genuine concern.

To claim that the real war on women is in the Middle East stakes the legitimacy of Arab women in the war against women, that I view as a global phenomenon not unique to Arab women, while leaving millions of non Arab women, also victims of systemic misogyny, to fend for themselves.