Have you ever noticed how feminists are scraping to find more and more trivial things to complain about? That’s because, as always, a problem solved is an existential crisis for an activist. Feminists won the real battles decades ago: they just won’t, can’t, admit it. Because, if they did, not only would their entire worldview collapse, vast swathes of jobs and money for feminists would vanish. So would vast amounts of entitlements that women didn’t earn.
While feminists make up imaginary bogey-men like ‘stare rape’ and ‘femicide’, the reality is that, on nearly every measure, young men especially are copping the rawest deal.
Decades ago, a young Australian man could work a regular job, buy a house, raise kids, and pay off the mortgage in good time. That was the Australian Dream, and it was achievable.
Today, that dream is slipping away.
It starts long before young men start even thinking about buying a house. From their earliest days, they are subjected to a state-imposed gynarchy. Childcare, the ghastly social experiment foisted on Western families, is one of the most highly feminised industries imaginable. Ninety-seven per cent of childcare workers are women. By the time boys make it to school, things are little better: 83 per cent of primary school teachers are female. So are 62 per cent of high school teachers. Curriculum design and education bureacracy are just as, if not more, female dominated.
The result is that boys are subject, from their youngest years, to a state apparatus designed almost entirely for girls. The results show: boys are twice as likely to score in the lowest bands for literacy in standardised testing. On balance, across subjects, boys are lagging girls. Girls are far more likely to aspire to finishing year 12 than boys and they do so with better results.
Yet, education programmes are still tailored to girls rather than boys. Even as boys go backwards in their traditionally strong subjects of maths and science, all the energy of special programmes is directed to improving girls’ results.
Unsurprisingly, then, men are outnumbered by women at every Australian university, bar two. Men’s share of enrolments is going rapidly backward. Feminists are still whining, though. Woe betide anyone who tries to set up a scholarship programme specifically for men.
Men are more likely to experience poverty and homelessness than women or to commit suicide or be murdered. Yet, the same feminists who can recite in an instant how many women have been murdered in a given year, fly into a rage when asked how many men are murdered (I speak from experience).
So, where are the men’s ministers or government departments?
At the post-election function, women were served barrels of pork at the main table while men made do with breadcrumbs at the back of the room […]
There is a powerful minister for women inside the Cabinet (Senator Katy Gallagher), plus an assistant minister for women.
Where is the minister for men? There isn’t.
Instead, men get a token gesture: a “Special Envoy for Men’s Health”. That’s it. On the other hand, females will comprise a 55 per cent majority of the Cabinet, with 12 out of the 22 ministries. And it shows.
The budget from March 2025 announced $793 million of new funding for Women’s Health, and zero new funding for Men’s Health. You read that right, there was an 80-page Women’s Budget Statement and $0 of additional funding for Men’s Health. In September 2024, Anthony Albanese announced $4.7 billion of funding to address the “national crisis” of domestic violence.
Except that there is no such ‘crisis’. In fact, women today are safer than they’ve ever been in the history of Australia. Violence and murder statistics have been plummeting for over a century, with men still making up by far the greatest percentage of victims.
So, while women’s health gets billions, men’s health?
During the election campaign the health minister announced $32 million of new funding for Men’s Health, going to a handful of organisations that feminists will begrudgingly tolerate (Men’s Sheds, Movember, Healthy Male, and Black Dog Institute).
Except that Movember is also run by women. Black Dog Institute is very far from a male organisation: six of its 12 board members are female. Even its landing page has seven photos of girls and only three of boys. How long until women start demanding admission to Men’s Sheds, as they have in the UK, is just a short tick of the clock.
There is also an assistant minister for mental health and suicide prevention. But this misunderstands the drivers of suicide, where three-quarters of deaths are male. The Canberra Times reported on 9 May: “the majority of men who take their own lives do not identify as having a mental health condition, but are struggling due to situational stress. This could be a marriage breakdown, financial struggles or unemployment.” Ben Alexander of suicide prevention organisation Running For Resilience said “The phrase ‘mental health’ does not resonate with [many] men.”
Of course, feminists will screech that there’s no need for a minister for men. Isn’t there?
We need a minister for men to address the important issues of: boys massively underperforming in education; eight women graduates for every five men graduates; men dying five years earlier than women; mortality rates that are 40–50 per cent higher than for women; over 2,400 men and boys lost to suicide every year; bias in the Family Court; failing families that hurt children; serious harm from false accusations; plus an epidemic of fatherlessness (costing over $13 billion per year and heavily impacting vulnerable communities).
A single ‘envoy’ who’s not even in Cabinet just doesn’t cut it.
