Philosopher and author Abigail Shrier calls it the war on boys, but there is a feminist war on men being waged at all ages and levels of society. At the same time that women are (rightly) demanding to keep all-female spaces, there are concerted feminist campaigns to ‘open up’ male-only spaces, from clubs to men’s sheds. Governments are pouring tens of millions into ‘empowering girls in education’, despite the fact that across the board, girls are leading in results, while boys are falling further and further behind. Activists demand ‘equity’ in employment in fields like engineering and computing, yet are perfectly content that education, the life sciences and healthcare are almost exclusively dominated by women.
To really rub salt into the wounds, the grasping harpies of feminism have even taken over what is supposed to be ‘the world’s leading men’s health organisation’, proving, once again, that wherever feminists get a toehold, they quickly take over entirely.
Feminist activist Michelle Terry joined Movember in 2020. Five years later, she’s turned it into yet another trougher gynarchy. It’s leadership is now 70 per cent female – and now that DEI has given them the boys’ club, they’re clearly determined to enjoy it.
Wherever she can, Terry is steering Movember into benefitting women at the expense of men. In 2020, when Terry took over, the Movember website published a feature giddily celebrating that its workforce was now 51 per cent female. Or, to put it another way, in a charity supposed to represent men, men were a minority.
And that was just the start. From the time Terry took over, Movember has drastically cut its spending on men’s health. Funding to prostate and testicular cancer research has plunged to just seven per cent of Movember’s spending.
So, where’s the money going? Not to helping men, that’s for sure.
The major push now is on “Mental Health & Suicide Prevention” – see the grey line – which has shifted from 18 per cent to 37 per cent of Movember’s spend – $13.5 to $34.4 million.
But wait, you say, isn’t suicide prevention a good thing? Well, yes it is, especially given that suicide is so overwhelmingly male.
There’s just one problem: despite 75 per cent of suicides being male, 60 per cent of the people helped by the WayBack Suicide Prevention Service, whom Movember funded, are female. That is, money raised by men for the express purpose of helping men, is more than twice as likely to be directed to women.
How do they justify this?
That’s to be expected, say the health bureaucrats because WayBack aims to reduce the likelihood of suicide – or a further attempt, for people who have made a previous suicide attempt – and women make more unsuccessful attempts than men.
Ok then. So Movember discovers the program they are funding to reduce MALE suicide isn’t actually helping all that many men because males are more likely to be successful when they try to end their lives.
You might have thought that someone in Movember would have had the bright idea to look at the factors triggering male suicide and see if there is some way of intervening to actually reduce the risk? Look at the efforts made in our society to support women who are vulnerable to post-partum depression, reducing risk of depression and suicide during that period.
Try to imagine, say, a women’s refuge entirely staffed by men. Or male social workers lecturing girls about periods. Or, as recently happened, a hulking male shopworker trying to slither into the change room to ‘help’ a teenage girl try on a bra. There would, absolutely rightly, be outrage.
But when women take it on themselves to femsplain to at-risk men?
Even though it might make sense to have men supported by other men, Movember takes a different tack. Given that the suicide prevention sector is female dominated – with over 70 per cent of mental health nurses, psychologists and other support people being women – the focus of much of Movember’s suicide prevention work is training these women to talk to men.
Is that working? On the evidence, no.
One recent study found that 91 per cent of male suicides had actually sought help – where they were probably told they were ‘toxic’ and it was all their own fault.
Movember, the world’s largest and most powerful men’s health and male suicide charity, has joined the #HeForShe campaign, to reassert their ambition to end the scourge of violence… but ironically… only against women.
Yes. The men who @Movember vow to help, and who constitute roughly 47 per cent of intimate partner violence victims (CDC), 80 per cent of suicides that result from abuse (NVDRS), and 60 per cent of all domestic violence related deaths… are made secondary.
Of course: how else are the upper-middle-class career women who’ve taken over Movember going to enjoy their paid-for French Riviera holidays?
It’s a cosy little club, fellas – and you’re not in it.
