"data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that among men 25-44, the biggest cause of suicide is now “problems in spousal relationships circumstances”. It is appalling that our suicide prevention programs are ignoring this key trigger for male suicide and refusing to provide services to support men going through this process". Couldn't agree more, Bettina. Thanks for highlighting this.
Bettina, suggest a few items of grist for your mill: The example of the man with 3 kids, wife stay at home. That is their decision/option. The man needs to qualify for promotion, just like his women colleagues. Quoting percentage "improvements" in women hired for PS jobs could be put into perspective by quoting historical men/women numbers overall, AND the current percentage being achieved...good article! keep up the good work...
Feminism is an anti male hate movement, they deliberately set out to damage boys education and put girls first which is harming boys education, they want equal pay but leave dangerous work to men, equality but you wont see them march for the equal right to risk there lives on a battlefield, Basically they want rights that benefit women and leave all the trash to men. The last thing they want is equality.
Ipswich Queensland has a female mayor who went to the Commission to have a ruling that she could hire female only garbage truck drivers. I never see any female Garbos, I guess they didn’t want that type of job.
WRT DEI compromising traditionally male professions, such as police, firefighting and military. As you say, it lowers standards. It also discourages men from applying, knowing that they'll face discrimination in promotion. I've heard these stories "from inside" also.
I laugh at our Labor governments addressing recruitment shortfalls with more cash bonuses for recruits and more advertising, mostly directed to women. If it continues for long we'll find ourselves with no effective police, firefighting or military - as California did in January. We also know about the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, 2009, when the female chief of the fire department was out of contact because she was attending a hairdresser!
"lowers the standards"...think about the standard you need for child protection Detective (say) versus strong-arms for public order riots etc...BOTH have standards, both need to have different selection criteria to fill the task...
I've had discussions elsewhere about the problem of Aussie men refusing to be "political" and stand up for other men (including their sons!!!) with their votes.
We could well see Albo re-elected, and other state Labor governments, such as Malinoukas in SA, continuing their anti-male policies with the police, firefighting etc.
Your cartoonist is brilliant, and often captures the piece in one image! He succeeded again!
"Teach boys to cry" is one of the feminist lines which most infuriates me, because they use it to blame men themselves for their high suicide rate, and to deflect from any investigation of the causes - which are well known to be, as you describe, being the victims of unilateral divorce and losing their live savings, kids and future. It's a wonder that more don't succumb to it. The line is an insult, and just another symptom of a female dominated social welfare, academia and family court system.
We plan to have lots of memes and other funny bits and pieces to liven up the grim news we often have to feature. I hope everyone will help circulate them.
i often cry, but i have suffered a lot of loneliness and depression in my life due to rejection from women, i haven't got the nerves to commit suicide but i have been added to a list of people at risk of suicide, I wish i had never been born.
Thanks for sharing, David! I've very sorry to hear that. I am guessing that you are from an older generation which still had a benign view of women and looked for a spouse, fell in love, got rejected, etc? I went through it, and often felt suicidal. I grew up in a female dominated house, and was taught "It's OK for boys to cry". This in was the 1960s and 70s - contrary to the feminist trope that this is a "new" idea to fix men's problems!
To target male suicide would be to target the very real correlation between it and the bias shown in Family Law, the weaponising of law through false allegations, the incorrect and biased training of our police, and parental alienation, amongst other things. Therefore, it would work against the misandrist agenda.
What needs to happen is for voters to demand better of their politicians, and that they don't simply comply with noisy, biased voices. Perhaps all your readers should consider this when voting this year - and ask their candidates where they stand on such things.
Another way to also combat the federal politician duopoly would be to preference all minor parties before the LNP and ALP to ensure people are there to try and hold them more accountable.
I've noticed the latest strategy with feminists is that they actually care about men and that's why we need to join them as they smash the patriarchy.
Of course, smashing the patriarchy is just a euphemism for giving select women more power.
IOW if women are, ostensibly, at a disadvantage the solution is to hand women more power. OTOH if men are, ostensibly, at a disadvantage the solution is to hand women more power.
DEI is a disaster, because in reality it's got nothing to do with diversity, inclusion or equity at all.
It's a con job, a slight of hand, that seeks to disguise rigid orthodoxy of ideology & belief with the veneer of "difference".
Take any major ASX company. They'll show you their 'vibrant' workforce of employees with different "genders', sexualities, races, etc.
What they won't reveal is how much all these employees think the same way, especially in political/ideological terms.
'DEI' is in fact 'OIE' - 'Orthodoxy, Inequity and Exclusion'.
By replacing meritocracy with OIE, disaster is guaranteed.
Take the family law courts in Australia.
Did you know that the FCFCOA (old Federal Circuit Court) Family Law Division gives judicial power to non-judges?
Since it was founded in 2021, it has recruited an army of 'senior judicial registrars' and 'judicial registrars' to make decisions that judges - and only judges - used to make, and should be the only people permitted to make.
These include decisions about which parent children should spend time with, about allegations of 'family violence' (90%+ made by women) and about money/marital assets.
These judicial powers have now been delegated down to non-judges, much like legislative power has been delegated to unelected bureaucrats in our fat, inefficient and incompetent government bureaucracy. In fact, these new 'judicial registrars' in effect run 90% of all matters that come before the Family Law Division. Only very few matters get to a judge, these days.
Given that we are dealing with relationship breakdown involving children, if there was ever a group of employees where a 50/50 split of men/women was critical, if not a free system of recruitment/promotion based on merit and nothing eise, it is with these new judicial roles.
But here's the sobering reality. Of the 35 'senior' judicial registrars in Family Law Division, 28 (80%) are women.
As for judicial registrars, hard to find the actual data - however most family lawyers will confirm that at least 75% if not 80% + are also women.
Just ridiculous, and outrageous.
And eye-watering hypocrisy, too. After all, these are the very same people who preach 24/7 about the (apparently) 'critical' importance of 'gender equality' in workforces.
You're probably unaware of this. Can't blame you if you are, after all, it's never reported in regime media. Why? Well, yes, the majority of modern journalists are plain dumb - unable to think for themselves.
But the gatekeepers of regime media - well, the vast majority of them are women, too.
And most (actually it's almost all in my opinion - 90% plus) of all these women all think the same way, which is the point I made above. It's a rigid orthodoxy.
In essence, "women are good & men are bad, the patriarchy is real, believe all women & toxic masculinity", you know, the infantile, tired, toxic junk philosophies of modern day misandry that have seeped into our culture from the United States.
There is in reality no 'diversity' at all. In reality, it is institutionalised cult thinking. These women have to buy into the DEI con job in order to get the job in the first place, and to progress.
Of course, this is leading to disastrous outcomes everywhete, including in family law. This includes amended family law legislation and the day to day decision making of the court, which (speak to any family lawyer they'll confirm it is true) is now institutionally biased against men.
In fact, smart family lawyers these days are advising male clients to avoid going anywhere near the Court, at all costs. The risk of being hauled over the coals by a misandrist judicial officer is just too high. As a result, access to the judicial system for men is in effect obstructed and fairness is often chucked out the window, which is of course what these misandrist (not feminists) ideologues want.
But of course it also leads to disastrous outcomes for the men, women and children of separated relationships. Which leads to shockwaves among their respective families and social circles, and compounded, to Australian society itself.
Which is, again, precisely what these misandrist ideologues want.
We in the West are going to pay a mighty price for ditching meritocracy, and allowing the 'feminised' society to be created. Men are suffering horribly of course, but ironically, the group that will suffer the most is going to be women. Why?
In reality, the misandrist ideologues behind this don't care about women, any more than they care about the vast array of gender & sexual identities, or minority victims whom they claim to represent.
They care about one thing and one thing only - POWER. And of course, grift.
Well said ,this is the “nanny state” cradle to grave control of all people. The glaring hypocrisy of family court registrars being mostly women is a concern and the few “token” men would be feminists too , toeing the line .
It makes a mockery of the DEI ideology , so what are politicians doing ? This is an issue which should be debated in parliament , bias and injustice in the nations courts is a very important matter, but parliament is also dominated by feminists .
You are right. The Family Court system is a lottery, heavily weighted toward anti-male ideologues. But I must point out there are still good people working there, including lawyers who helped me years ago to support men. They are doing their best to be fair to all sides but are grossly outnumbered by people keen to take men down.
Feminists often say “ the best man for the job is a woman” but it’s no joke , DEI , giving a position to a less qualified applicant just because they fit the required gender/ race quota is a dangerous thing to do and it’s being shown to cause problems.
The same thing with parliaments both state and federal. Women have been given unfair preference by both major parties and now we have a very mediocre bunch of women dominating politics , from offensive Aboriginal activists to vindictive Muslims.
Now is the time for Peter Dutton to take his cue from Donald Trump and make DEI an election issue , if he’s got the guts.
It is hard to know how it would play here. I'd like to think it would help his prospects but Australia is now alarmingly woke. I suspect that he would be better off not going near any gender issues during the pre-election period and then tackling some of these contentious matters when he gets into power. Of course I realise he might be a second Sco Mo and sell out to the feminists on all issues. But no one is as bad as Albanese and his dangerous mob.
That’s right ,Labor and Albo have lost a lot of their working class base , with high cost of living, immigration , high rents , Dutton should win anyway ,
It is pretty certain that a large number of SANE males were driven to vote for trump because of the treatment they have suffered through discrimination against males. What other source of hope did they have?
The MSM responded, of course, by saying that it's because men feel threatened by "equality".
Barrak Obama did Trump, black males, and all of us, a great service by telling black men that if they didn't vote for Kamala they were "misogynist". Yah.. that may have worked five years ago, but men have had a gutful of it.
And men aren't just reacting to "words". They are reacting because of the discrimination they've suffered in their own lives, and seen in the lives of their fathers, brothers and friends.
Pure coincidence but this complements Jordan Petersen’s latest podcast with Matthew Goodwin. How is it that perhaps thousands of young girls have been murdered, raped and grossly abused in England over many years without a whimper by feminists, media, politicians until Elon Musk made it an issue.
Well, if I were a feminist I would oppose any kind of meritocracy, which would knock 60% of women out of the ring from day one. One can bet that the lesbian school-teacher / under-qualified captain of the NZ Navy ship that she persuaded to reidentify as a submarine, will be screaming the loudest of all.
This is really worth listening too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4M5vFl9lZQ
I'm watching it right now and a second viewing is required.
did you see this one, it was in the line up, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8bt6fGQyA talk about hit the nail on the head... so all this stuff is coming out now..
Why Therapy Never Works For Men
I finally got around to watching it, and it hits the nail on the head.
I am tired of all this, having to wade through all the information thats why it took me so long to watch it.
Thanks for that one.
Hey Philip can you send this to Tom Golden :) please...
DEI includes the oppression of all women & girls.
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/trumps-dei-ban-hits-home-ashley-hall-girls-stem-event-cancelled-donald-trump-diversity-equity-inclusion-wciv-abc-news-4-02-11-2025
"data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing that among men 25-44, the biggest cause of suicide is now “problems in spousal relationships circumstances”. It is appalling that our suicide prevention programs are ignoring this key trigger for male suicide and refusing to provide services to support men going through this process". Couldn't agree more, Bettina. Thanks for highlighting this.
Bettina, suggest a few items of grist for your mill: The example of the man with 3 kids, wife stay at home. That is their decision/option. The man needs to qualify for promotion, just like his women colleagues. Quoting percentage "improvements" in women hired for PS jobs could be put into perspective by quoting historical men/women numbers overall, AND the current percentage being achieved...good article! keep up the good work...
Feminism is an anti male hate movement, they deliberately set out to damage boys education and put girls first which is harming boys education, they want equal pay but leave dangerous work to men, equality but you wont see them march for the equal right to risk there lives on a battlefield, Basically they want rights that benefit women and leave all the trash to men. The last thing they want is equality.
Ipswich Queensland has a female mayor who went to the Commission to have a ruling that she could hire female only garbage truck drivers. I never see any female Garbos, I guess they didn’t want that type of job.
I would like the most qualified surgeon if I need one, not because she is a woman.
WRT DEI compromising traditionally male professions, such as police, firefighting and military. As you say, it lowers standards. It also discourages men from applying, knowing that they'll face discrimination in promotion. I've heard these stories "from inside" also.
I laugh at our Labor governments addressing recruitment shortfalls with more cash bonuses for recruits and more advertising, mostly directed to women. If it continues for long we'll find ourselves with no effective police, firefighting or military - as California did in January. We also know about the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, 2009, when the female chief of the fire department was out of contact because she was attending a hairdresser!
Yes, DEI is killing people.
It's very telling that in December 2024, after the election of Donald Trump, the US Army recruitment rose to its highest level in 15 years. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/army-announces-december-marked-highest-recruiting-period-in-15-years
"lowers the standards"...think about the standard you need for child protection Detective (say) versus strong-arms for public order riots etc...BOTH have standards, both need to have different selection criteria to fill the task...
Soon we will have mostly female cops, the males are leaving in their droves. That will be interesting.
Australia is on a precipice in 2025.
I've had discussions elsewhere about the problem of Aussie men refusing to be "political" and stand up for other men (including their sons!!!) with their votes.
We could well see Albo re-elected, and other state Labor governments, such as Malinoukas in SA, continuing their anti-male policies with the police, firefighting etc.
"Interesting" indeed!
Your cartoonist is brilliant, and often captures the piece in one image! He succeeded again!
"Teach boys to cry" is one of the feminist lines which most infuriates me, because they use it to blame men themselves for their high suicide rate, and to deflect from any investigation of the causes - which are well known to be, as you describe, being the victims of unilateral divorce and losing their live savings, kids and future. It's a wonder that more don't succumb to it. The line is an insult, and just another symptom of a female dominated social welfare, academia and family court system.
Actually, I have another clever guy, Nathan Livingstone, who put together this idea for a meme. Here's a link to his work - https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1855747317611315626.
This was created for our new X account which we have just launched. See here...https://x.com/TheRealMenToo
We plan to have lots of memes and other funny bits and pieces to liven up the grim news we often have to feature. I hope everyone will help circulate them.
My art is usually created by Fraser from Naughtee Design who has been helping me for many years, contributing to our cause. He's brilliant too! https://www.superpages.com.au/company/1072243972513792/naughtee-design/hobart/advertising
i often cry, but i have suffered a lot of loneliness and depression in my life due to rejection from women, i haven't got the nerves to commit suicide but i have been added to a list of people at risk of suicide, I wish i had never been born.
Thanks for sharing, David! I've very sorry to hear that. I am guessing that you are from an older generation which still had a benign view of women and looked for a spouse, fell in love, got rejected, etc? I went through it, and often felt suicidal. I grew up in a female dominated house, and was taught "It's OK for boys to cry". This in was the 1960s and 70s - contrary to the feminist trope that this is a "new" idea to fix men's problems!
To target male suicide would be to target the very real correlation between it and the bias shown in Family Law, the weaponising of law through false allegations, the incorrect and biased training of our police, and parental alienation, amongst other things. Therefore, it would work against the misandrist agenda.
What needs to happen is for voters to demand better of their politicians, and that they don't simply comply with noisy, biased voices. Perhaps all your readers should consider this when voting this year - and ask their candidates where they stand on such things.
Another way to also combat the federal politician duopoly would be to preference all minor parties before the LNP and ALP to ensure people are there to try and hold them more accountable.
I've noticed the latest strategy with feminists is that they actually care about men and that's why we need to join them as they smash the patriarchy.
Of course, smashing the patriarchy is just a euphemism for giving select women more power.
IOW if women are, ostensibly, at a disadvantage the solution is to hand women more power. OTOH if men are, ostensibly, at a disadvantage the solution is to hand women more power.
Heads women win, tails men lose.
DEI is a disaster, because in reality it's got nothing to do with diversity, inclusion or equity at all.
It's a con job, a slight of hand, that seeks to disguise rigid orthodoxy of ideology & belief with the veneer of "difference".
Take any major ASX company. They'll show you their 'vibrant' workforce of employees with different "genders', sexualities, races, etc.
What they won't reveal is how much all these employees think the same way, especially in political/ideological terms.
'DEI' is in fact 'OIE' - 'Orthodoxy, Inequity and Exclusion'.
By replacing meritocracy with OIE, disaster is guaranteed.
Take the family law courts in Australia.
Did you know that the FCFCOA (old Federal Circuit Court) Family Law Division gives judicial power to non-judges?
Since it was founded in 2021, it has recruited an army of 'senior judicial registrars' and 'judicial registrars' to make decisions that judges - and only judges - used to make, and should be the only people permitted to make.
These include decisions about which parent children should spend time with, about allegations of 'family violence' (90%+ made by women) and about money/marital assets.
These judicial powers have now been delegated down to non-judges, much like legislative power has been delegated to unelected bureaucrats in our fat, inefficient and incompetent government bureaucracy. In fact, these new 'judicial registrars' in effect run 90% of all matters that come before the Family Law Division. Only very few matters get to a judge, these days.
Given that we are dealing with relationship breakdown involving children, if there was ever a group of employees where a 50/50 split of men/women was critical, if not a free system of recruitment/promotion based on merit and nothing eise, it is with these new judicial roles.
But here's the sobering reality. Of the 35 'senior' judicial registrars in Family Law Division, 28 (80%) are women.
As for judicial registrars, hard to find the actual data - however most family lawyers will confirm that at least 75% if not 80% + are also women.
Just ridiculous, and outrageous.
And eye-watering hypocrisy, too. After all, these are the very same people who preach 24/7 about the (apparently) 'critical' importance of 'gender equality' in workforces.
You're probably unaware of this. Can't blame you if you are, after all, it's never reported in regime media. Why? Well, yes, the majority of modern journalists are plain dumb - unable to think for themselves.
But the gatekeepers of regime media - well, the vast majority of them are women, too.
And most (actually it's almost all in my opinion - 90% plus) of all these women all think the same way, which is the point I made above. It's a rigid orthodoxy.
In essence, "women are good & men are bad, the patriarchy is real, believe all women & toxic masculinity", you know, the infantile, tired, toxic junk philosophies of modern day misandry that have seeped into our culture from the United States.
There is in reality no 'diversity' at all. In reality, it is institutionalised cult thinking. These women have to buy into the DEI con job in order to get the job in the first place, and to progress.
Of course, this is leading to disastrous outcomes everywhete, including in family law. This includes amended family law legislation and the day to day decision making of the court, which (speak to any family lawyer they'll confirm it is true) is now institutionally biased against men.
In fact, smart family lawyers these days are advising male clients to avoid going anywhere near the Court, at all costs. The risk of being hauled over the coals by a misandrist judicial officer is just too high. As a result, access to the judicial system for men is in effect obstructed and fairness is often chucked out the window, which is of course what these misandrist (not feminists) ideologues want.
But of course it also leads to disastrous outcomes for the men, women and children of separated relationships. Which leads to shockwaves among their respective families and social circles, and compounded, to Australian society itself.
Which is, again, precisely what these misandrist ideologues want.
We in the West are going to pay a mighty price for ditching meritocracy, and allowing the 'feminised' society to be created. Men are suffering horribly of course, but ironically, the group that will suffer the most is going to be women. Why?
In reality, the misandrist ideologues behind this don't care about women, any more than they care about the vast array of gender & sexual identities, or minority victims whom they claim to represent.
They care about one thing and one thing only - POWER. And of course, grift.
But power most of all. Control & domination.
They are the modern totalitarians.
Apologies for long post & thank you for reading.
Well said ,this is the “nanny state” cradle to grave control of all people. The glaring hypocrisy of family court registrars being mostly women is a concern and the few “token” men would be feminists too , toeing the line .
It makes a mockery of the DEI ideology , so what are politicians doing ? This is an issue which should be debated in parliament , bias and injustice in the nations courts is a very important matter, but parliament is also dominated by feminists .
You are right. The Family Court system is a lottery, heavily weighted toward anti-male ideologues. But I must point out there are still good people working there, including lawyers who helped me years ago to support men. They are doing their best to be fair to all sides but are grossly outnumbered by people keen to take men down.
Feminists often say “ the best man for the job is a woman” but it’s no joke , DEI , giving a position to a less qualified applicant just because they fit the required gender/ race quota is a dangerous thing to do and it’s being shown to cause problems.
The same thing with parliaments both state and federal. Women have been given unfair preference by both major parties and now we have a very mediocre bunch of women dominating politics , from offensive Aboriginal activists to vindictive Muslims.
Now is the time for Peter Dutton to take his cue from Donald Trump and make DEI an election issue , if he’s got the guts.
It is hard to know how it would play here. I'd like to think it would help his prospects but Australia is now alarmingly woke. I suspect that he would be better off not going near any gender issues during the pre-election period and then tackling some of these contentious matters when he gets into power. Of course I realise he might be a second Sco Mo and sell out to the feminists on all issues. But no one is as bad as Albanese and his dangerous mob.
That’s right ,Labor and Albo have lost a lot of their working class base , with high cost of living, immigration , high rents , Dutton should win anyway ,
It is pretty certain that a large number of SANE males were driven to vote for trump because of the treatment they have suffered through discrimination against males. What other source of hope did they have?
Yes, and not just white males!
The MSM responded, of course, by saying that it's because men feel threatened by "equality".
Barrak Obama did Trump, black males, and all of us, a great service by telling black men that if they didn't vote for Kamala they were "misogynist". Yah.. that may have worked five years ago, but men have had a gutful of it.
And men aren't just reacting to "words". They are reacting because of the discrimination they've suffered in their own lives, and seen in the lives of their fathers, brothers and friends.
SO which political party in australia is going to offer the same opportunity to australian males?
Pure coincidence but this complements Jordan Petersen’s latest podcast with Matthew Goodwin. How is it that perhaps thousands of young girls have been murdered, raped and grossly abused in England over many years without a whimper by feminists, media, politicians until Elon Musk made it an issue.
Well, if I were a feminist I would oppose any kind of meritocracy, which would knock 60% of women out of the ring from day one. One can bet that the lesbian school-teacher / under-qualified captain of the NZ Navy ship that she persuaded to reidentify as a submarine, will be screaming the loudest of all.