PERSON: Gavin McInnes

Gavin Miles McInnes (born July 17, 1970) is a Canadian writer,[1] creative director,[2] actor and the co-founder of Vice Media.
A popular new contributor to TheRebel.media, McInnes writes regular columns on Takimag.com, Truth Revolt, and The Federalist. He has published books such as The Death of Cool and has written, produced, and acted in films such as How to be a Man [2]. In addition, he creates video content for Fox Digital, and appears regularly as a guest on Fox News.
As a teen, McInnes played in the Ottawa punk band Anal Chinook.
McInnes co-founded Vice in 1994.
His role as an editor at Vice led to him being referred to as “the Godfather of hipsterdom” and one of the “primary architects of hipsterdom”. He left Vice in 2007 due to “creative differences.
McInnes started the website StreetCarnage.com. He also co-founded an advertising agency called Rooster where he serves as creative director. He currently writes for the web magazine Taki’s Magazine. He also writes for the website VDARE.
McInnes was featured in a 2003 New York Times article about Vice magazine expressing his political views.
In an interview in the New York Press, McInnes said that he was pleased that most Williamsburg hipsters are white. He has also been quoted as saying, “I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of ... I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.” McInnes later claimed in a letter to Gawker that the interview was done as a prank intended to ridicule “baby boomer media like The Times” . He became the focus of a letter-writing campaign by a black reader, and Vice apologized for McInnes’s comments
In 2009, McInnes convinced a journalist at The Village Voice that he had been knocked out after losing a challenge to an MMA fighter.[13] The footage was actually an outtake from a failed TV pilot.
In 2010, McInnes convinced a journalist at Gawker that he had eaten a bowl of urine-soaked corn flakes after not winning their “Hipster of the Decade” competition. The footage was actually an outtake from a collection of comedy sketches called Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole.
In 2012, McInnes faked a serious car accident for the stand-up comedy movie The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants.That same year, he published a book of memoirs entitled How to Piss in Public.
In October 2013, McInnes was interviewed by The Huffington Post on a panel about the meaning of masculinity, and said “people would be happier if women would stop pretending to be men,” and that feminism “has made women less happy”.[19] He explained that “Women are feigning that toughness. We’ve trivialized childbirth and being domestic so much that women are forced to pretend to be men. They’re feigning this toughness, they’re miserable.”[20] A heated argument followed when University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks responded, and McInnes in his reply loudly called her a “fucking idiot”.
In August 2014, McInnes was asked to take an indefinite leave of absence as chief creative officer of Rooster, following online publication at Thought Catalog of an essay about transphobia entitled “Transphobia is Perfectly Natural” (since masked due to “hateful or abusive content”) that sparked a Boycott Rooster movement. Rooster stated, “We are extremely disappointed with his actions and have asked that he take a leave of absence while we determine the most appropriate course of action.”