He founded the
blog Tiger Beatdown (a punning reference to Tiger Beat) in 2008. It concluded in 2013.[6][7][8] His 2010
critique of
Liz Lemon on Tiger Beatdown was oft-cited.[9] Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for ThinkProgress in 2011, criticized Doyle's critique in Tiger Beatdown that year of the sexual violence in Game of Thrones.[10]
Doyle is a feminist author;[11][12][13][14] his[a] first book, titled Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (2016),[15][16][7] dealt with the ways in which society, and especially the media, have built up (and spotlighted) and then torn down women who defied social norms throughout history,[6][17][18] particularly by classifying them as "crazy" and "
trainwrecks".[17] His second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, about patriarchy, monsters, and the horror of being female, was released in August 2019, and deals with the roles women are often pushed into by society, and the ways women are seen as monsters.[19][20][21][22]
He contributed "The Pathology of
Donald Trump" to the 2017 anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, edited by
Samhita Mukhopadhyay and
Kate Harding, and the piece “Nowhere Left to Go: Misogyny and Belief on the Left“ to the 2020 anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World, edited by
Jessica Valenti and
Jaclyn Friedman, as well as contributing to Rookie - Yearbook One (2012), Rookie - Yearbook Two (2014), and The Book of
Jezebel: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things (2013).[23][24][25] Doyle also edited and wrote the introduction for Marilyn Monroe: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (2020).[1][26]
Doyle has written extensively about
sexual assault and the misogynistic abuse that many women face online,[33][34] which Doyle has also endured.[35][8][36]
In 2020, he published the teenage
horror comedyApocalypse 1999 Or The Devil in Jenny Long, offering it as a free download via the book's website.[37][non-primary source needed]
He wrote the comic MAW, which was a five-issue horror series, the last issue of which came out in January 2022. The comic was released by
BOOM! Studios.[38][39]
In 2010, Doyle started the #MooreandMe campaign against
Michael Moore's rejection of rape allegations made about
Julian Assange.[43][44] In 2011, Doyle started the hashtag #mencallmethings as a way to further discussion of sexist abuse received by women writers on the Internet.[45] The same year, Doyle received the first
Women's Media Center Social Media Award.[5][46] In 2013,
Kurt Metzger feuded with Doyle and
Lindy West via Facebook and Twitter during a defense of rape humor.[47][48][49][50]
He has stated that he was sexually assaulted.[55] He has said his father was abusive and almost killed him, his mother, and his brother.[56][57] Doyle has mentioned having
post-traumatic stress disorder.[58]
Doyle has a husband and a daughter.[59] He also has a brother, who he has stated has
schizophrenia.[57]
Notes
^Doyle uses he/him and they/them pronouns. This article uses he for consistency.
^
abcCulp, Jennifer (2014). I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What?. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 18.
ISBN978-1477779767.
^Sex and Sexuality (2019,
ISBN1642821543, edited by The New York Times Editorial Staff, published by New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group), pages 185-189