![]() ![]() The underlying suggestion in all of this, of course, is that she has come to sympathise with the men’s movement and jettisoned a lot of received feminist wisdom.Īs a result, Jaye has seen her funding dry up. Likely, that is, until Milo Yiannopoulos wrote an article about her struggle. At the halfway point, but only 22% funded, Jaye was struggling with the reality that the Kickstarter campaign was likely to fail. Despite word-of-mouth pleas for assistance and a grassroots attempt at garnering support, Futrelle and similar-minded people were succeeding in suppressing any feminist support. Feminist blogger David Futrelle – who at that time had never met or talked with Jaye – went for the jugular with accusations and insinuations designed to dissuade people from investing.Įven though Jaye tried to fight off the offensive with a rebuttal, the damage was starting to take its toll. After all, from their perspective, airing the views of “the enemy” without explicitly condemning them is tantamount to traitorism. When they started to find out that Jaye wasn’t intending on publishing a biased hit-piece on Men’s Rights, she found herself at the business end of a vicious, vitriolic campaign to discredit and dismiss her. With only a month in the campaign, and already a week into the fundraising, there was no way she was going to succeed at that rate. Jaye was looking for $97,000, and by the time I got involved she had raised just under $2500. The Movie That Almost Wasn’tĪt the time, Ms. The investment offered me a copy of the pre-release film, and my name in the credits (yes, I actually have my name in the credits of a movie now – it’s a “Dear diary” moment!). Generally speaking, I don’t do a lot of this funding on Kickstarter, but as I watched the pitch video, I started to think that there might be a chance that Jaye – a confessed feminist – might actually be attempting to do a “here are the facts, you can make up your own mind.” After watching her pitch, I decided to invest $100 in the idea. A self-proclaimed feminist, Cassie Jaye had previously had success with her earlier forays, including Daddy I Do, and The Right To Love, which (I understand) won awards in various film festivals. In 2015, I came across a notice of a Kickstarter funding page for an independent documentary filmmaker who was looking to raise enough capital to finish work done on her new piece, The Red Pill. ![]()
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