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

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Mine is Andy Murray. He was coached by his mother first and had to defend her against criticism. Now he has Amelie Mauresmo and was criticised by some male players for choosing a woman coach. Now he is through to the Australian Open Final and openly praised her in his post match interview.

“A lot of people have criticised me for working with her but we’ve showed this week that women can be very good coaches as well.

“Madison Keys, who also made the semi-finals here, is also coached by Lindsay Davenport. Hopeful that can keep going."

It was noticeable that when he was presented with his SPOTY trophy in 2013 by Martina Navratilova he called her "the best player in the world" - not the best woman player.

He may be grumpy sometimes on court, but he's put those who denigrate women's tennis in their place.

Kudos Andy

Paddy mcguiness

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.

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.

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