Louise O’Neill: ‘If someone trusts you enough to send an intimate photo, respect that trust. Talk to your sons, rather than warning your daughters’

"I have tried to explain that in criticising the patriarchy, I am not targeting individual men (#NotAllMen) but the societal structure as a whole that has benefited men over women. But I am done explaining", writes Louise O'Neill

I have tried to explain that in criticising the patriarchy, I am not targeting individual men (#NotAllMen) but the societal structure as a whole that has benefited men over women. But I am done explaining, writes Louise O'Neill

In the six years since my first novel was published, I have been called a man-hater many times.

At book events, school talks, on social media, during radio interviews, in letters sent anonymously to my home, on Reddit forums and Boards.ie.