Who's your favourite (celeb) non-sexist man?

I don't get how Linehan is considered non-sexist. What has he done?

Re: Graham Linehan - was The IT Crowd secretly feminist in some way then?

I have only managed to watch one episode, because as a female geek working in IT the whole premise of men are geeks, soopa genius clever fellas but need nice blonde girly to do the people stuff for them made me feel quite stabby.

Derek Landy. He's an Irish author who wrote the Skulduggery Pleasant series, which is so feminist I don't even know which bit I'd mention first!

On first reading to my son I was distracted by the mad cartoon violence, but I did notice things like mid-way through the series a handsome brooding (but non-glittering) vampire falls in love with Stephanie, the main character. But it plays out the way you would expect a feminist author to play it out!

It has fantastic female characters, it calls out sexism in a way that would really connect with tweens, it even brings up the 'Women in Refrigerators' trope, where a woman is raped/tortured/murdered merely to cause pain to a man.

Well worth a read, I'm a big fan.

Paddy mcguiness

Love all these!

I was coming on to say Robert Webb for (amongst other things) his New Statesman article, but Gerund has beaten me to it

I love Daniel Radcliffe. He's said he's a feminist about a million times. Good quote on the "friend zone" thing: "It’s a thing I think men need to be really careful about using... I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won’t have sex with me.'”

Which is so true. I have been attracted to male friends, but it would never occur to me to be annoyed with THEM about that, or be annoyed at being in some kind of zone. Whereas with some men there seems to be a sort of blame on the woman for not wanting to shag them (because obviously women are just holes and if they DON'T want you it's an active insult to you as a man?)

"AKnickerfulOfMenace Sun 08-Feb-15 13:56:03

Did you mean to suggest that FWR posters on MN plan and commit acts of hatred and violence against men, up to and including lynching them, Dothey?

Or are you just going for a variant on Godwin's law?"

"What's the point, they'll all turn out to have been raping their daughters or something. Every time you think "oh he seems like he likes women, he would never do that" - it comes out in the news he does/did. Ugh!"

No. Just reading what's been written in this thread; I used the simile for illustrative purposes.

Did you mean to suggest that FWR posters on MN plan and commit acts of hatred and violence against men, up to and including lynching them, Dothey?

Or are you just going for a variant on Godwin's law?

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"AWholeLottaNosy Thu 29-Jan-15 19:20:20

Sad how few men we can name on this thread!"

Well what do you expect? It's a bit like standing up and asking 'So, who's you're favourite black person?' at a Klan meeting.

I've just watched that Patrick Stewart video from back on p.1 and I am in tears. My grandfather came back from WW1 (yes, 3 generations of older mothers here, so a long way back!) shell-shocked. As far as I know he wasn't violent towards my grandmother, but he used to beat seven shades of shit out of his children, and it screwed all four of them up (albeit in different ways) for the whole of their adult lives. Whoever summed it up (up thread) by saying his point was that the cult of toxic masculinity shafts women and men was absolutely right.

Not a celeb but author Mitch Benn. I love following him on twitter.

I came on to this thread to say 'Joss Whedon' and was happily unsurprised to see him already mentioned.

Also to agree on the Daniel Radcliffe front - he seems a down to earth guy with his head in the right place.

I want to mention Tom Hiddleston, as what little I've seen of him seems to suggest that he's a good and lovely chap, but I don't have much evidence to back that up, and am possibly talking through rose-tinted judgment. He has donned a feminist t-shirt, and has shared the #HeForShe hashtag. Does that pass muster?

I've been googling some of the men mentioned on this thread, as I read it. I am now all disappointed to find that Patrick Stewart is married to a 36 year old woman. He is 74.

It's not a crime, of course, and each of them is free to choose who they want to marry. But men pairing up with much younger women is part of the power imbalance between the sexes: women being valued for youth and looks and fertility, and men for power and prestige.

Look, that Cumberbatch 'coloured' thing. He was actually saying, in a gauche ham-fisted upper-class way, that some of his friends (inc David Oyelowo) had to go to the U.S. to get good parts and that was a shame. Oyelowo said recently he thought it was very annoying that the fuss over Cumberbatch using an outdated word totally over-shadowed his real argument. Which seemed to be pretty enlightened.

Not that I'm advocating him as a feminist or anything, I wouldn't know.

Adam Hills was my first thought as well

Neil Pearson.

When I was about 16 he was getting or giving an award and the other person made, what was then seen as a 'near the knuckle' remark, Neil Pearson looked them in the eye and said, "rape is not funny".

It was the first time I had heard a man refute a rape joke.

I can't remember who the other person was, or what the 'joke' was but that has stayed with me.

I was impressed by what Andy said, even more so when he added "I want to thank Amelie for being brave enough to take me on and want to win for her on Sunday" or words to that effect.

I'm nominating Robert Webb for this.

I was impressed with this quote from Kurt Cobain:

“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”
? Kurt Cobain

Ooh sorry to triple post but we can't forget the lovely Aziz Ansari

And YY to totally forgiving AM for his grumpy persona after those comments!