Zac Seidler is an intelligent, charismatic, non-threatening feminist who represents a men's charity exactly the way feminists would want him to. He pretends to care about male suicide but ignores the most relevant causes, which he knows the feminists would cancel him for mentioning. He knows not to bite the hand that feeds him. He developed a men's depression scale, with no apparent awareness that the items assess the way men react when their relationships end in conflict - or actual awareness but going along with the narrative that men becoming distressed in the context of relationship hell is due to their own depression.
George from the TinMen would be far better as a spokesperson for Movember, but only in an alternate universe in which the charity actually pretended to care about what it says it cares about. Your reporting has made clear that Movember is not what it pretends to be, and that people who want to actually help.men should look elsewhere, preferably locally and specifically.
Thank you for exposing this sham, Bettina. Men need you.
This is so heinous. I cannot express how much I despise feminists - sociopaths who get a pass because they have tits which somehow makes them sacred and untouchable. Nope.
Feminism conditions women to see themselves as oppressed and dependent on government protection. Like Marxism, it pursues equality of outcome through state power — often resulting in less freedom and more bureaucracy. Dependency replaces resilience.
I am absolutely disgusted and shocked after reading this article. I thought Movembers focus was on helping Men in society. When I saw that photo in this article that showed who worked at the Movemeber company, and that it was 80-90% women representing the Movember brand, name, and fight for men’s right I was appalled. I was appalled I didn’t know this myself. If this was a charity/ organisation for women- if I look at UNWomen- it’s predominantly all women working there. If it was mostly men working there I am sure women around the world would be absolutely shocked.
Just last week I was on the UNwomens website and I was shocked that they claimed they fought for gender equality- yet on their website they have absolutely nothing showing men’s issues- and their slogan for the women and girls. Oh my god Movember not supporting the violence against men and boys act??? What. The . Fuck?????!
Half of Movember had elapsed before I, a daily news consumer, heard or read anything about it in the news or social media. That may have been just coincidental, but there still remains much platitudinous lip-service on this matter, especially when it comes to proactive mental illness prevention and treatment for males.
Various mainstream news and social media will state the obvious, that society must open up its collective minds and common dialogue when it comes to far more progressively addressing the challenge of more fruitfully treating and preventing such illness in general.
But they will generally fail to properly practically respond to the problem of males refusing to ask for help due to their fear of being perceived by peers, etcetera, as weak/non-masculine. The social ramifications exist all around us; indeed, it is endured, however silently, by males of/with whom we are aware/familiar or to whom so many of us are closely related.
The mindset maintains, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It’s the mentality that might help explain why the author of Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one male among its six interviewed subjects, there presumably being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized males willing to formally tell his own story of traumatic childhood adversity.
To get anywhere, including rectifying the notably disproportionately low number of male students attending post-secondary or higher education institutions, males need to have the same strong mainstream-media (news, social and entertainment) support that females have had for decades, and still do. Instead, males have observed thus known that, for the most part, they have not been taken seriously, at least not on this front. If anything, the media are generally cynical toward their cause.
I even recall a metro-daily newspaper editor sarcastically referencing some neglected males as “the poor little boys” in a brief phone call with me. Her attitude clearly rang with incredulity, that males can’t really be a social/societal victim group. ... In summation: Suck it up, guys!
According to psychologist, psychotherapist and author Tom Falkenstein (The Highly Sensitive Man, 2019, Ch.1), “numerous psychological studies over the last forty years tell us that, despite huge social change, the stereotypical image of the ‘strong man’ is still firmly with us at all ages, in all ethnic groups, and among all socio-economic backgrounds. …
“You only have to open a magazine or newspaper, turn on your TV, or open your browser to discover an ever-growing interest in stories about being a father, being a man, or how to balance a career with a family. Many of these articles have started talking about an apparent ‘crisis of masculinity’.
"The headlines for these articles attempt to address male identity, but often fall into the trap of sounding ironic and sometimes even sarcastic and critical. They all seem to agree to some extent that there is a crisis. But reading these articles one gets the impression that no one really knows how to even start dealing with the problem, let alone what a solution to it might look like.
“One also gets the impression from these articles that we need to keep any genuine sympathy for these ‘poor men’ in check: the patriarchy is still just too dominant to allow ourselves that luxury.”
Dr. Falkenstein also writes: “In the face of problems, men tend not to seek out emotional or professional help from other people. They use, more often than women, alcohol or drugs to numb unpleasant feelings and, in crises, tend to try to deal with things on their own, instead of searching out closeness or help from others. …
“While it is true that a higher percentage of women than men will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or a depressive episode, the suicide rate among men is much higher. In the United States, the suicide rate is notably higher in men than in women.
“According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, men account for 77 percent of the forty-five thousand people who kill themselves every year in the United States. In fact, men commit suicide more than women everywhere in the world.
"Men are more likely to suffer from addiction, and when men discuss depressive symptoms with their doctor, they are less likely than women to be diagnosed with depression and consequently don't receive adequate therapeutic and pharmacological treatment.”
Raises questions about gender and health funding, and who gets what help—and when. These debates connect to how women’s unpaid labor is undervalued (sometimes by their own families). For anyone interested, I’ve written about the cost of having to “prove” women’s pain before action is taken.
Any idea of the "cost" associated with Australian male victims of child sexual abuse being excluded from relevant taxpayer funded mental health services for up to thirty years? Many were also denied legal remedy because they were raped by women.
By way of guidance information shared through two royal commissions suggests there may have been thousands of suicides over the years.
So Cricket Aust and Movember have been hijacked as now has AFL (Western Bulldogs). I wonder what Tennis Aust position is? And I very sure what Soccer Aust attitude would be to a "blue" match for Matildas next local International. The Boards/membership of leading sporting bodies need some real soul-searching.
If it's true, that's a sad thing for you and all women who must invest time and energy for a growing child with the support of a partner to share the load. Whether "ticketed" or not, a partner is a women's best chance at raising a healthy and well-balanced child. Most people call it marriage, formalised or otherwise it's the same thing. Marriage will never be an outdated concept, as old as humankind.
Well said , Strangely it’s the people who are not married who attack it so much , a case of sour grapes . Women in stable marriages are generally happier and healthier than their single sisters. A fact the feminists would like to bury , as I said it’s just “ sour grapes” .
Just because you repeat your comment doesn't make it so. Here are some harsh truths fro you: Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of Marriage. So it is, men that are the ones opting out of marriage.
Zac Seidler is an intelligent, charismatic, non-threatening feminist who represents a men's charity exactly the way feminists would want him to. He pretends to care about male suicide but ignores the most relevant causes, which he knows the feminists would cancel him for mentioning. He knows not to bite the hand that feeds him. He developed a men's depression scale, with no apparent awareness that the items assess the way men react when their relationships end in conflict - or actual awareness but going along with the narrative that men becoming distressed in the context of relationship hell is due to their own depression.
George from the TinMen would be far better as a spokesperson for Movember, but only in an alternate universe in which the charity actually pretended to care about what it says it cares about. Your reporting has made clear that Movember is not what it pretends to be, and that people who want to actually help.men should look elsewhere, preferably locally and specifically.
Thank you for exposing this sham, Bettina. Men need you.
This is so heinous. I cannot express how much I despise feminists - sociopaths who get a pass because they have tits which somehow makes them sacred and untouchable. Nope.
10. Cultivating Victimhood
Feminism conditions women to see themselves as oppressed and dependent on government protection. Like Marxism, it pursues equality of outcome through state power — often resulting in less freedom and more bureaucracy. Dependency replaces resilience.
https://frankkarsten.substack.com/p/13-ways-feminism-undermines-womens
Appalling and it goes to show that when men have issues, women are most affected.
What bs indeed!
I am absolutely disgusted and shocked after reading this article. I thought Movembers focus was on helping Men in society. When I saw that photo in this article that showed who worked at the Movemeber company, and that it was 80-90% women representing the Movember brand, name, and fight for men’s right I was appalled. I was appalled I didn’t know this myself. If this was a charity/ organisation for women- if I look at UNWomen- it’s predominantly all women working there. If it was mostly men working there I am sure women around the world would be absolutely shocked.
Just last week I was on the UNwomens website and I was shocked that they claimed they fought for gender equality- yet on their website they have absolutely nothing showing men’s issues- and their slogan for the women and girls. Oh my god Movember not supporting the violence against men and boys act??? What. The . Fuck?????!
You do understand that feminism is about women winning, don't you?
Not just winning but hating all men
Half of Movember had elapsed before I, a daily news consumer, heard or read anything about it in the news or social media. That may have been just coincidental, but there still remains much platitudinous lip-service on this matter, especially when it comes to proactive mental illness prevention and treatment for males.
Various mainstream news and social media will state the obvious, that society must open up its collective minds and common dialogue when it comes to far more progressively addressing the challenge of more fruitfully treating and preventing such illness in general.
But they will generally fail to properly practically respond to the problem of males refusing to ask for help due to their fear of being perceived by peers, etcetera, as weak/non-masculine. The social ramifications exist all around us; indeed, it is endured, however silently, by males of/with whom we are aware/familiar or to whom so many of us are closely related.
The mindset maintains, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It’s the mentality that might help explain why the author of Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one male among its six interviewed subjects, there presumably being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized males willing to formally tell his own story of traumatic childhood adversity.
To get anywhere, including rectifying the notably disproportionately low number of male students attending post-secondary or higher education institutions, males need to have the same strong mainstream-media (news, social and entertainment) support that females have had for decades, and still do. Instead, males have observed thus known that, for the most part, they have not been taken seriously, at least not on this front. If anything, the media are generally cynical toward their cause.
I even recall a metro-daily newspaper editor sarcastically referencing some neglected males as “the poor little boys” in a brief phone call with me. Her attitude clearly rang with incredulity, that males can’t really be a social/societal victim group. ... In summation: Suck it up, guys!
According to psychologist, psychotherapist and author Tom Falkenstein (The Highly Sensitive Man, 2019, Ch.1), “numerous psychological studies over the last forty years tell us that, despite huge social change, the stereotypical image of the ‘strong man’ is still firmly with us at all ages, in all ethnic groups, and among all socio-economic backgrounds. …
“You only have to open a magazine or newspaper, turn on your TV, or open your browser to discover an ever-growing interest in stories about being a father, being a man, or how to balance a career with a family. Many of these articles have started talking about an apparent ‘crisis of masculinity’.
"The headlines for these articles attempt to address male identity, but often fall into the trap of sounding ironic and sometimes even sarcastic and critical. They all seem to agree to some extent that there is a crisis. But reading these articles one gets the impression that no one really knows how to even start dealing with the problem, let alone what a solution to it might look like.
“One also gets the impression from these articles that we need to keep any genuine sympathy for these ‘poor men’ in check: the patriarchy is still just too dominant to allow ourselves that luxury.”
Dr. Falkenstein also writes: “In the face of problems, men tend not to seek out emotional or professional help from other people. They use, more often than women, alcohol or drugs to numb unpleasant feelings and, in crises, tend to try to deal with things on their own, instead of searching out closeness or help from others. …
“While it is true that a higher percentage of women than men will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder or a depressive episode, the suicide rate among men is much higher. In the United States, the suicide rate is notably higher in men than in women.
“According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, men account for 77 percent of the forty-five thousand people who kill themselves every year in the United States. In fact, men commit suicide more than women everywhere in the world.
"Men are more likely to suffer from addiction, and when men discuss depressive symptoms with their doctor, they are less likely than women to be diagnosed with depression and consequently don't receive adequate therapeutic and pharmacological treatment.”
Sadly you can remove Men's Sheds from the list of men's charity's. Another Male Space destroyed by "Inclusivity"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/forrest-victoria-mens-shed-inclusive-open-women-community/105469932
Raises questions about gender and health funding, and who gets what help—and when. These debates connect to how women’s unpaid labor is undervalued (sometimes by their own families). For anyone interested, I’ve written about the cost of having to “prove” women’s pain before action is taken.
Any idea of the "cost" associated with Australian male victims of child sexual abuse being excluded from relevant taxpayer funded mental health services for up to thirty years? Many were also denied legal remedy because they were raped by women.
By way of guidance information shared through two royal commissions suggests there may have been thousands of suicides over the years.
So Cricket Aust and Movember have been hijacked as now has AFL (Western Bulldogs). I wonder what Tennis Aust position is? And I very sure what Soccer Aust attitude would be to a "blue" match for Matildas next local International. The Boards/membership of leading sporting bodies need some real soul-searching.
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.
The only "horrendous" thing going on here is whackers like you posting the same nonsense seven times in a couple on minutes.
I am positive men are opting out.
That’s a good thing. Marriage is an outdated concept that has no place in society any more.
If it's true, that's a sad thing for you and all women who must invest time and energy for a growing child with the support of a partner to share the load. Whether "ticketed" or not, a partner is a women's best chance at raising a healthy and well-balanced child. Most people call it marriage, formalised or otherwise it's the same thing. Marriage will never be an outdated concept, as old as humankind.
Well said , Strangely it’s the people who are not married who attack it so much , a case of sour grapes . Women in stable marriages are generally happier and healthier than their single sisters. A fact the feminists would like to bury , as I said it’s just “ sour grapes” .
LOL! We have a troll in our midst
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.
Just because you repeat your comment doesn't make it so. Here are some harsh truths fro you: Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of Marriage. So it is, men that are the ones opting out of marriage.
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.
This comment section is horrendous. No wonder women of this generation are opting out of marriage and children.