Sam de Brito (30 January 1969 – 12 October 2015) was a Sydney-born author and writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age who wrote the blog All Men Are Liars.
His grandfather William Blake was a reporter for The Truth in Melbourne and Adelaide, and his mother Julie co-founded what became the company Media Monitors in the late 1970s with broadcaster Ian Parry-Okeden.
[9] "When I was in Years 5 and 6, I copped it savagely for reasons I still don't entirely understand but suspect were linked to me being somewhat bookish, articulate and effeminate..." de Brito wrote.
In 1998 de Brito wrote, directed and starred in the comedy film Revenge, Inc with Daniel Einfeld, a writer on the Australian television game show Who Dares Wins.
He went on to be a scriptwriter until 2004, penning episodes of Australian TV dramas including Water Rats, White Collar Blue and Stingers.
Prior to his work at Fairfax, De Brito was a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, the US tabloid Star magazine while he was living in New York City and later the Nine Network/Microsoft joint venture ninemsn in the News Department.
De Brito's blog dealt with men's issues and gained a large following for its heavily confessional, autobiographical content.
Reviewer Nigel Krauth, writing in The Australian, said reading The Lost Boys "as a male reader, is like taking the heartfelt kiss of the world's most gorgeous girl right after she has spewed through her nose in a Bondi hotel toilet.
In 2013 he argued that "having a laugh and taking the piss is a mighty effective way of shrugging off life's many worries", chiding women for failing to respond favourably to men's jokes.
[21] "The most powerful, effective feminists I know don't live on Twitter railing against stupid beer ads and rape scenes in Game of Thrones – they compete against and beat men.
[22] De Brito publicly supported the pick-up artist movement,[23] and in 2014 argued that mass murderer Elliot Rodger was motivated by mental illness, not a hatred of women.