Jessica Rowe's heated moment on TV
Wherever far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos seems to go these days, controversy doesn’t seem too far behind, and it was more of the same during his appearance on Studio 10 this week where he clashed with the show’s host Jessica Rowe.
The outspoken activist used his appearance to slam feminism, calling Rowe a “half-bald feminist”, likening feminism to a cancer that could be “cured”.
After Rowe said she was “a proud feminist”, the self-proclaimed champion of free speech said, “That's OK, I'm sure they'll cure you soon, there's a chemotherapy for that.”
“No, no, no,” she began.
“Everyone's entitled to a view, but you seem to stir up hate for the sake of it, because you want to provoke.”
Yiannopoulos defended his controversial position.
“It's perfectly fine if you're a feminist. My problem is with those feminists who say we all need to be feminists when we might not be, and we might think feminism has run its course,” he said.
“It's very difficult to describe yourself as 'not a feminist' if you're in the public life. That's an enforcement of a particular political orthodoxy that is not shared by the public majority.
“These ideas being enforced in popular culture and on TV are not views reflected in the public.
“The gap between media and the public is growing all the time.”
Yiannopoulos has built a career on pushing people’s buttons. The one-time senior editor of far-right website Breitbart News was controversially removed from the position when he was accused of being a paedophile apologist. He also famously had his Twitter account deleted from prompting a wave of racist abuse against actor Leslie Jones.
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