Just WOW. I knew what this manifesto was about but I had never read it before. I think what is most striking for me is that Valerie uses a language we are used to, but changing the gender of the sender and the receiver. Let me explain my point, as much as we criticise misogynist or incel discourses, we also have normalised that language, the one that is used from men to women, the one that positions (naturally) men over women. However, Valerie takes many of those discourses and turns them up side down. Gender determinism, essentialisms, gender roles and their implications in the world... As if establishing that the system of dominance is (or should be) from women to men. When turning it over, it is much more evident to see how those narratives are socially constructed, both in Valerie's ("anti-men") sense and in the sense we are used to (the misogynist and patriarchal sense).

If this manifesto is considered so alarming, it is because we are not used to seeing this language used against men instead of women.