Clementine Ford called on women to stop using the word ‘happiness’ when they find a male partner who treats them ‘like a human being’.
Speaking at her latest book launch at the Seymour Center in Darlington earlier this month, the 42-year-old activist said it is not “lucky” to be treated with respect.
The staunch feminist, who recently released an anti-marriage book titled I Don’t, then used her own co-parenting relationship with her ex-partner as an example.
Clementine told the audience that she feels “very grateful” for the healthy relationship she maintains with her ex-boyfriend for the sake of their child.
However, she claimed that while many women consider her circumstance “lucky,” she hesitates to use that word.
Clementine Ford, 42, (pictured) called on women to stop using the word ‘happiness’ when they find a male partner who treats them ‘like a human being’
“I don’t want to say ‘happy’ because that’s often how women talk about their relationships,” she said.
”I’ve been really lucky, I’ve been really lucky, I’ve got a good one.’ It’s like we shouldn’t say we’re lucky to have men who treat women like people.”
It comes after the controversial author described marriage as ‘built on the oppression of women’ and compared women to slaves in her new book.
At her latest book launch at the Seymour Center in Darlington earlier this month, the activist said it is not “lucky” to be treated with respect.
The bestselling author appeared on The Project earlier this month to outline an alternative view of marriage.
“My biggest problem with marriage is that I think it is a fundamentally flawed institution built on the oppression of women,” she said on the program.
‘…But also that it is now being presented to people as something that it never was, something that we need to have happiness and love.’
”I’ve been really lucky, I’ve been really lucky, I’ve got a good one.’ It’s like we shouldn’t say we’re lucky to have men who treat women like human beings,” she said
She went on to say that “love marriage is only about 200 years old” and is not “an essential thing that will elevate our lives to something better.”
Clementine added that marriage was largely “great for men,” while women were left with a great burden within the relationship.
‘One of the main complaints that many women have about their husbands is that they don’t really feel like their husband sees them. “All they are is some sort of glorified all-in-one device for them,” she said.
Clementine said she is “not at all against people falling in love and forming families,” but urged people to consider whether they needed to get married to have a meaningful relationship.
It comes after the controversial author described marriage as ‘built on the oppression of women’ and compared women to slaves in her new book
