French book I Hate Men sees sales boom after government adviser calls for ban

Ralph Zurmely, who advises the gender equality ministry, says Pauline Harmange's ode to misandry' should be withdrawn for inciting hatred

A French government official's attempts to ban an essay entitled I Hate Men over its incitement to hatred on the grounds of gender" have backfired, sending sales of the feminist pamphlet skyrocketing.

Pauline Harmange's Moi les hommes, je les deteste explores whether women have good reason to hate men", and whether anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path, if it is allowed to be expressed". Its small French publisher, Monstrograph, called it a feminist and iconoclastic book" that defends misandry as a way of making room for sisterhood".