I don't know if this has become obvious by now, but there is another top post here about the now famous Michael Sonmore, aka The Cuckolded Male Feminist.

Except that it is absolutely obvious he's an invention. There is not a trace of this guy anywhere online. He only wrote a single article for New York Mag:

http://nymag.com/author/Michael%20Sonmore/

And the name "Sonmore" is obviously a joke. So two questions:

  • Who wrote the article? (I urge folks to research the various columnists at New York Magazine)
  • Why was this article penned? Devious self-promotion by NYM? To get under people's skin? Or was it to convince gullible, spineless male-feminists to let their wives sleep around? Who knows.

What I find hilarious is that various male-feminist hubs such as AMR were rabbiting on about how this was "progressive" and "misters" were obviously "misogynists" for lambasting the article. The fact that the article is obviously a troll piece shows, if any more evidence was needed at all, that feminist women have about as much respect for male feminists as they have for MRAs: none.

I have no idea how male feminists live with themselves, frankly - there was a time I considered getting into feminism at the suggestion of my wife, and after two days of reading and commenting I was out of the game: most vocally-feminist women, in my experience, react with uncontrollable fury at the idea of male feminism (sadly, my wife is a great person and I would love to join her kind of feminism - if it existed in the real world).

It's a pretty sad day for a male feminist who took that article at face value. Sad face.

Edit: I'm not de facto against open relationships - some people know how to work that and good on them if they manage. I'm de facto against troll-journalism with only malicious intentions to fool and provoke people (feminist journalism seems to have evolved into professional trolling), and I'm not so keen on reading about imbalanced relationships where a person is totally disempowered and being treated like a dog.