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Bettina Arndt's avatar

PLEASE will you all send versions of that draft letter to key education ministers? We can't just keep complaining about these issues. We have to let politicians know we object to the way boys are being neglected in our education system. Do it today!!

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Universal Zeitgeist's avatar

Done. You are a wonderful warrior. Thankyou for your SATYAGRAHA (clinging to truth) and your hilarious delivery of these truths. Bono or Dylan or someone said the best way to serve an age is to betray it. Thankyou for betraying the constrained and controlling spirit of this age and creating a broader, freer world by telling the truth and maintaining a warm heart when much of the world has gone cold. God bless you

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Joe Dowse's avatar

Sadly, this is a familiar story since the beginning of the assault on boys eduction began in the 1970s. One of the great tragedies of our generation. You can only spare a thought for boys these days who have had to contend with nationwide bureaucracies that are dedicated in ensuring boys do not succeed in their chosen field. This is a great summary, Bettina, of a truly appalling outrage which should never be tolerated. It should be pretty clear to everyone that our current government and the Greens couldn’t give a shit about our children, and are more than happy to see them fail.

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David Stanley Lavery's avatar

correction, they don't care about boys .

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Joe Dowse's avatar

I get where you're coming from and I basically agree. The reason why I said “children" is because they are also promoting the gender insanity on children of both sexes in our educational institutions, not to mention the actual butchering of some children in the name of “gender affirming care". The Greens just expelled one of their foundation members for objecting to this. Personally, I don’t think they should be allowed to get away with it, so that’s why I said children. On reflection, it would’ve been more accurate for me to have said "children, but particularly boys". I also think I was a bit easy on the Coalition because it’s pretty clear quite a few of them couldn’t give a shit about children either, particularly boys.

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Davo from the Bush's avatar

I don't think these activists care about the issues they espouse, its just another rung on the ladder of dominance for them.

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Alan Dickie's avatar

Keep up the good work Bettina

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Frank Anning's avatar

Alarmingly Qld homicide figures reported that in the past year there had been 43 murders due to domestic violence, listening to the report, on guess which channel, we were left to understand male violence. When I searched the subject 57% of the victims were male but even that result had a rider suggesting that the feminine violence was the result of male behaviour.

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Ross Brent's avatar

I am STILL astonished at demands to reduce violence against women, not violence against people. Apparently violence against men is fine ??????? wtf.

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PAUL NATHANSON's avatar

Thank you for making the point that violence is a moral problem, not merely a statistical one. And the foundation of any moral solution must be the equal and innate value of every human life regardless of sex, race or any other qualifier. Even if only a few men were victims of violence, and even if only a few those were victims of women, they would still be worthy of communal concern.

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Ross Brent's avatar

well in FACT MANY MORE MEN are victims of violence (murders etc) than women. It is just not domestic violence. But they are still just as dead.

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PAUL NATHANSON's avatar

Yes, Ross, that's true. I think that both arguments against feminist indifference to men are worth making. Each reinforces the other. My point was merely that public policy should rely on a universal moral foundation, not only on statistics.

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Jamie's avatar

Isn't it great when one reaches this thinking!!! it is exactly WTF!!

'not violence against people'.

This is how I'm feeling with 'human rights'.

We have to have ?? Rights and not 'all humans share the same rights'...

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Ken Lydon's avatar

Men can’t win , if they’re violent to women the system comes down hard on them , but when they are the victims of a woman’s violence , they are also blamed , you may hear comments such as “ well he probably deserved it “.

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William Maxwell's avatar

When I was preparing the Hague Convention Return Application to have my children returned to Australia after their mother Internationally Abducted them, a women in the Australian Central Authority (part of the Attorney Generals Dept that deals with Hague matters) yelled at me "She [the mother] wouldn't have done what she did [kidnap our children] unless You Did Something WRONG! THEREFORE, IT'S YOUR FAULT!!!"

Little did I realize that this attitude would personify the courts attitude over subsequent years in the family court

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Ken Lydon's avatar

That woman should have lost her job for an outburst like that , but no doubt she didn’t. Typically jumping to conclusions and blaming the man is standard practice for these brainwashed feminists .

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Ross Cameron's avatar

......" well he probably deserved it". I have heard that too, but mostly when a male is violated it is often " he must have initiated something himself" (for that to happen). These sort of comments originate from individuals, and groups, whose baked on views come from the limited and narrow world in which they inhabit.

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Ken Lydon's avatar

You mean provocation, often the first excuse women use as a defence and it usually works . Men aren’t so lucky as DV laws show .

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Peter's avatar

inter-female/lesbian relationships/marraige have the highest rate of domestic violence

* people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or LGBTIQ+ experience intimate partner violence at higher rates (54.7%) as those who identify as heterosexual (48.2%) - Australian Institute of Family Studies (2018)

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William Maxwell's avatar

Gay males have a lower rate of DV than heterosexuals

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Davo from the Bush's avatar

The recent survey of partner violence published in the Australian Medical Journal, found 48% of women experienced partner violence, compared to 40% of men in heterosexual relationships. It was a staggering 70% on in non- heterosexual relationships. All of this goes against the narrative so is ignored. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2025/222/9/prevalence-intimate-partner-violence-australia-national-survey

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Conrad Riker's avatar

I'm in England.

But when my wife stabbed me, the police woman said I'd go to prison for at least four years if she hurt herself while stabbing me.

I was then was ordered to complete DuLuth training about how I was a dominator and given struggle sessions about male violence by a social worker.

That was a shock.

There's no bottom to the depths of female supremacy now backed into the institutions.

It took time for me to realise how corrupt the state has become, instituonalised systemic misandry.

The goal is depopulation, in alliance with Marxists, and feminists. It's full of Satanic inversions turning everything upside down. Like sex within marriage is rape if she says it is. Marriage can have a no fault divorce where the woman gets a pay out.

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Dabir Dalton's avatar

Couple the war on boys and the rapid influx of Muslims and Blacks into Australia. Which will eventually back fire on Feminists just as it has in the UK. Both of these immigrant groups will eventually out number the indigenous and white majority. And when they do the rights of women will be abolished and Feminists will learn the hard way what real gender oppression looks like. But by then it will be too late to stop it.

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avi's avatar
Sep 4Edited

And expecting the oppressed and cancelled men to protect them … Or the ones that received ~70% heavier criminal penalties. Possibly as a result of lies or bias. Zero feminist effort to close that gap, through either heavier penalties for women or lighter penalties for men.

Or to defend community that oppresses men as opposed to community that has elevated men’s social status to something more equitable. Changes to current community would be needed.

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Conrad Riker's avatar

60% of women admit to rape fantasies.

I think on some level feminists know what they're doing by importing low IQ, low trust patriarchal tribes.

There're going to get it rough.

The only thing women hate is weak men.

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Concerned Male's avatar

How dare anyone talk about boys issues!

BOYS EDUCATION GAP I raised this issue yet again in a crowded noisy Chamber today. I will continue to pursue this until we get it right and get boys achieving at the same level that girls are.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1770496393020387430

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Bettina Arndt's avatar

Good for you, Nick!

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Ken Lydon's avatar

British House of Commons , Nick Fletcher , the Brits have a “ Minister for Men And Boys “ I did not know that , and why then can’t Australia also have the same ?

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Brian Pinchback's avatar

Thank you Bettina for pointing out one of the strategies adopted by feminists. As you are no doubt aware a feminist action group established an influential political group called "The Push' which met regularly in a Sydney pub. Many of its members held important political positions e.g. Susan Ryan formally Minister for education. Some of the members were public servants who were political advisers e.g. Dr Anne Summers who was formerly an adviser to Susan Ryan.

"The Push" was an important influence in a the strategy for advancing women's interest. Besides

education inclusions (as you so rightly explain) there were other important strategies to promote women's interests. For example a key element to advance women into high public office in the bureaucracy was to abolish the Commonwealth Selection Test ( the CST) which the Labor party did when it was in government. The CST had been apolitical, non racial and an independent means to evaluate eligibility to join the Public Service. English comprehension was essential since

all our laws are written in English. At one point in time, all departments used the CST to appoint new recruits. The CST was administered by the then Public service Board. The CST enabled three independent arms of government - the bureaucrats, the judiciary and parliamentarians The system was established by the U.K. parliament when Australia gained its independence.

Now the feminists saw objective psychological tests as a hurdle to be overcome. So Labor

bought the feminist vote by abolishing the CST. Now Labor Party influence can explain how

people get appointed to important government positions and it can pick and chose only women if it needs to. The new policy that developed had the philosophical belief that people who belonged to a particular political party were most likely the best candidates for the job. America has followed the same process. Unfortunately, as we have seen recently the process doesn't work. Instead it leads to division. Eventually in the worst case scenario it will lead to a one party government.

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Jen's avatar

Thank you for your input.

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avi's avatar
Sep 4Edited

Progressive feminist leadership embedded in the labor party https://www.Emilyslist.org.au , privately funded political organisation, leading the femocrats in the departments.

Also in the democrats in the USA and in the labor party UK.

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Davo from the Bush's avatar

In some ways the gender issue is a trojan horse for socialism. The dramatic shift of power structures to hard left positions in recent years, is I think, a result of putting in DEI candidates, who turned out to be hard left activists.

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avi's avatar

Sure, it’s a manifestation of a form of it. Unlike genuine general socialism that has an impact on community across the board. This is a form that targets a subgroup of community for harm, to push against. Either through explicit policy’s or the absence of consideration.

DEI should be on the basis of merit, disregarding issues like race or gender. If it is on merit and things like race or gender that is a problem. If it is just on things like race or gender only, that is also a problem.

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PAUL NATHANSON's avatar

Along with the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party in Canada.

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avi's avatar
Sep 4Edited

I wondered where else they might be operating. They call themselves emily’s list in Canada? They get together once every two years.

Our liberal party has two similar but differently named organisations as well. Not as sure about their details yet though. I have wondered if their task is to damage the function of the liberals so the labor has greater success. 😂

Their objectives are presented as simply supporting more women into government, but it is like having a foreign nation asserting influence in the system of government on the sly.

You don’t know who or what ideology you are really electing. Recently a public housing project was constructed that only allows men as eligible residents if they were ‘attached’ to a women with children or members of the L+ community. This is more than encouraging women into government.

They have access to their own funding, and that of the party they masquerade as. If they have genuine bona fides for whole of community, why do they not identify as their own parties for the elections?

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PAUL NATHANSON's avatar

Sorry, I didn't mean that Emily's List per se operates in Canadian political parties, only that feminist organizations in general are active in Canadian politics--some of them openly as party agencies and committees or government departments, others not so openly under the banner of "equity." In some ways, Canada is always years behind the States. When it comes to feminist ideology, though, no cultural border separates Canada from the States.

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Ken Lydon's avatar

The only people who can save our boys are men , but where are they ? Many boys are raised by a single mother ,even the Prime Minister ,and it shows . These boys are at a distinct disadvantage they don’t get the father son relationship at home and schools now are dominated by women teachers . Boys as students learn better with male teachers ,as a rule , this is ingrained in human DNA since the Stone Age , when boys learnt from their father or older men in the tribe.

Men need to start acting like men again and take back the responsibility of educating and training boys , don’t leave such an important task to man-hating feminists , the results of which must be obvious .

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avi's avatar

Men are being locked up and coercively controlled into suicide. There is not many left.

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Antipodes's avatar

No, the "men need to act like men" angle was closed with the coercive control laws.

we men are stuffed.

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Ken Lydon's avatar

There may be hope in the new wave of patriotism , the street protests against immigration were mostly men , and many no doubt would know about the unfair deal men are getting in Australia.

Mens rights is a different issue to immigration but the anger it generates is just as real, and at last Australian men are learning to express their anger , hopefully in a peaceful way , or at least until that also fails and sterner action is required .

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Orr's avatar

"Men need to start acting like men again"

That would require women to start acting like women again, which doesn't appear likely.

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Michael K.'s avatar

The Western matriarchies must be destroyed. They are evil and proud of it.

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David Stanley Lavery's avatar

i always say we live in a matriarchy, men are treated and regarded as expendable, women have government departments -but there's none for men and boys. we get no help from anyone and feminism is deliberately trying to destroy us.

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Michael K.'s avatar

Howdy David.

The Patriarchy only exists as a whipping boy that the tens-of-thousands of feminist organizations in America can use to rationalize their sadistic and criminal treatment of men and boys.

The Patriarchy exists exactly nowhere else. Women and feminism rule every single U.S. institution . . . yet the grrls always scream and cry about some mythical 'patriarchy' that must be 'smashed' because it's 'holding them down'.

Lies. In reality, the U.S. and its satellite nations like Canada and Britain are matriarchies in every way except the classic anthropological sense. Women are our oppressors and rulers, and as a class they occupy a level or caste above males -- whether we look at law, education, employment, access to social aids and programs, or elsewhere.

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avi's avatar

Patriarchy never existed. It was an oligarchy. The present day patriarchy is nothing more than a blow up doll, to be inflated as required to complain.

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David Stanley Lavery's avatar

They say there's a patriarchy so why are there government departments set up to help women but not men, Women say they want equality so why don't they insist on being equally forced to sign for the military. Why do women still expect men to pay on a date which is anti male exploitation and prostitution. I have always wished i had been born female, they have luxuries i will never have.

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Davo from the Bush's avatar

The worst thing is when they get control of the police, judiciary and defense. Its not all women, about 80%. And it includes their subservient male simps.

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avi's avatar
Sep 4Edited

I knew a single mother of two boys. She worked in the low wages retail sector. Her boys were struggling with reading.

The school had funding for a special ed teacher to assist a girl that was having difficulty, but apparently had no more money for the teacher to assist the boys. I don’t know why the teacher couldn’t have taken on the two boys as well. I suspect there was never money allocated to assist boys.

In addition to what she was doing as best she could at the home, she cut back her hours to spend time at the school to also assist her boys there.

Her boys are currently doing well. Fine young gentlemen. This failure of our government is harming parents that have to cut their income to assist their boys and put the home at risk given cost of living issues, or maintain the financial needs and jeopardise the boys future.

Many people in prison have an average high school literacy level. Men in particular.

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Humdinger's Cat's avatar

The failure of boys might dismay the people on Bettina's substack. For feminism, however, this is a job well done. Their dreams and ambitions are coming true. They've a lot more destruction left in them, so we can expect this to get worse.

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Daffy's avatar

One possible long-term result of so many boys under-performing, along with the propensity of girls seeking boys for partners who 'out-perform' them and/or are more 'successful' than they could be that more and more women find themselves single, childless and alone in later life.

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Ross Cameron's avatar

There has been commentary about this in the US for some time.

The declining standard of males in academic participation and also their results, versus women, has been evident for some time.

These women who have completed their studies, with superior employment prospects, are finding that the pool of eligible males with comparable, and can I suggest compatible ambitions, are a shrinking cohort. It then becomes a matter of "partnering down", or maybe going it alone, a situation many find unpalatable it seems.

It's a tough reality, but in life we are governed by Newton's Law of Motion: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction".

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Ken Lydon's avatar

Many of these educated intelligent women who spent their youth and early adulthood pursuing a career instead of marriage and childbearing , eventually come back down to earth . They leave it too late to have a family and many stay childless, so fail to pass on their genes to the next generation which leads to a dumbing down of populations .

A smart society would encourage talented women to reproduce in their best years and pick up eduction and careers in later life . But feminists and Marxists want to weaken Western society and preventing the best and smartest women from reproducing is a way .

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Peter's avatar

I was a mature-aged Uni student from 1999 to 2006, achieving my Degree, then Masters. Firstly I was struck by the lack of fundamental English & Maths skills boys > girls, but secondly, I was dumbfounded by the amount of diatrible and utter nonsense coming out of lecturers mouths to their students.

The one statement where I burst out laughing was a female professor who was convinced that women had longer life expectencies than men because the blood they lost during their menstrual cycle acted as a type of 'pressure relief valve' for their circulatory system.

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Axel Hart's avatar

On the basis of that academic's reasoning, men can live forever if they give lots and lots of blood donations.

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Peter's avatar

her PhD Critical Thinking skills were well below par...

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Ken Lydon's avatar

What nonsense , older women don’t menstruate anyway, where is the logic in that , but women are more susceptible to superstitions and myths . Men mostly are more sceptical and pragmatic more likely to say “show me the proof” .

For this reason men should always play a bigger role in running things, not that women shouldn’t have input , but men today have completely capitulated , giving women complete control from parliament to education, the corporate world etc .

An experiment in social engineering which will end in disaster .

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Greg Allan's avatar

"but women are more susceptible to superstitions and myths"

If I were to create a "list" of red flags re women an interest/belief in the occult would be at the top.

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avi's avatar

I will support Dr Girkin !!! 🫶👍🙏❤️

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Concerned Male's avatar

The UK in a nut shell!

BOYS are falling behind so what does gynocentric UK govt. do!

Feminism in action

Prime Minister appoints new Envoy on Girls’ Education

The Prime Minister has appointed Helen Grant MP as his new Special Envoy on Girls’ Education.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-appoints-new-envoy-on-girls-education-16-january-2020

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