A Santa Monica, California man is suing a group of women who belong to a Facebook group called “Are We Dating The Same Guy,” saying the group encouraged anti-male discussions that amount to sexism and gender bias, Fox 11 in Los Angeles reports.
Stewart Lucas Murrey, who claims a Ph.D. from Yale with two books (Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry and Nietzsche: The Meaning of Earth) on his CV, sued sixty women claiming the Facebook group undertook libel, sex-based discrimination, gender violence, invasion of privacy and conspiracy, along with other allegations based on discussions about him that were, unsurprisingly, overwhelmingly negative. He’s seeking $2.6 million in damages, and he’s set up a GoFundMe to finance the effort. As of 12:08 a.m. ET, three anonymous donations account for all $155 toward the $60,000 goal.
“The acts of these defendants are hate-fueled and unrelentless,” reads a statement on Murrey’s website where he seeks to justify his lawsuit as one for men’s rights fighting against slander. “One can name them a female version of incels: ‘femcels.’ The glue of their group is their hatred of men.” He’s not the only one who feels that way: a 32-year-old man from Chicago, Nikko D’Ambrosio, is also suing the group and 27 separate women after discussions about him included the words “very clingy very fast” by a woman who had a brief sexual relationship with him.