Canada, UK and Brazil considering banning the “pick-up” artist for promoting abusive and manipulative behavior towards women.
Swiss-born American Julien Blanc has finally broken his silence to apologise to people he offended with online material that promotes abusive behaviour towards women.
The 25-year-old appeared on CNN after weeks of online campaigning that resulted him being kicked out of Australia and TIME magazine questioning whether he is "the most hated man in the world".
"I just wanted to apologise to people I have offended in anyway, it was never my intention and I just want to put it out there, I'm extremely sorry for everything that has happened," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
Blanc excused the more damaging online material - including tweets that encourage domestic violence to pick up women - calling it a "horrible attempt at humour" and adding that he did not teach it as part of the his seminar courses.
Jennifer Li who started the original #TakeDownJulienBlanc campaign told BuzzFeed News the apology is "full of shit... He is sorry he got caught, not for what he has done."
"He keeps denying that he has taught this stuff. How can you say you do not teach this when the video shows him telling men that it's ok to force women's heads on his crotch," she said.
The #TakeDownJulienBlanc campaign has been working for weeks to uncover how Blanc and the Real Social Dynamics group teach seminars full of men how to manipulate women in order to sleep with them.
"The whole of Real Social Dynamics is like this. Notice how he has not been fired or anything?" said Ms Li.
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