by BETTINA ARNDT – MESSAGE to our politicians: If you have ever deluded yourself that you could ever harness the angry women’s vote, take a good look at our Prime Minister’s debacle late last month.
PM Anthony Albanese indulged in classic virtue signalling joining the Canberra women’s protest rally, along with hundreds of women who had been cynically whipped up into a frenzy over the latest domestic violence tragedies – with the usual false claims of an epidemic of violence being used to fuel anti-male hatred and demands for more funding.
- Cowered politicians are ever nervous of offending rabid feminists.
- When will politicians realise that they will never appease the extremist feminists.
- Can you imagine the onslaught from Australian media if we were to suggest more data transparency?
Mr Albanese took his place on the podium to state his usual platitudes, only to have Sarah Williams, an activist and one of the rally organisers, call him a “liar” for claiming the protest had refused to allow him to speak.
Ms Williams then turned on the waterworks, claiming the Prime Minister was victim blaming, which led to days of negative press for Mr Albanese.
SLAM DUNK
Slam dunk for Ms Williams. Another prime minister done over trying to win over the feminists.
It turned out that Ms. Williams is the same professional activist who, only a few weeks earlier, was orchestrating the change.org petition against our Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference.
Then, allegations emerged in The Newcastle Herald from volunteers who worked in Ms Williams’ not-for-profit organisation, claiming she asked workers to forge signatures for a State government petition and bullied and intimidated staff.
Questions were raised about lack of transparency regarding donated funds.
But Ms Williams aside, we saw a truly impressive flexing of feminist power on display over the past month, with commentators attempting to outdo each other in their male-loathing, proposing ever more draconian measures to lock up accused men, deny bail and publish their details online.
Grovelling politicians responded by handing out more and more promises and our money to further curtail civil liberties.
Never mind that in the middle of all the hysteria, the Australian Institute of Criminology released the latest figures (pdf) which demonstrated a 30-year decline in intimate partner domestic homicide: “The female intimate partner homicide rate decreased overall by two-thirds (66 per cent) in the 34-year period between 1989-90 and 2022-23.”
Statistically speaking, this year’s tragic cases are a tiny blip in the downward trend.
But that went virtually unnoticed, apart from an excellent article by Angela Shanahan in The Weekend Australian newspaper, which was omitted from her normal spot in the print version and only published online.
And who would have thought that Waleed Aly, co-host of The Project, would dare to suggest that blaming all men for domestic violence was like blaming all Muslims for Islamic terrorism.
The icing on the cake was when Jess Hill, one of the leading feminists on domestic violence, openly conceded that the advocated primary prevention strategy of promoting respect for women and attempting to “reduce gender inequity” wasn’t working.
“Telling men and boys that if they make sexist jokes, or fail to challenge the attitudes of their mates, they are personally responsible for the physical and sexual violence or homicides committed by other males has not proven a compelling or successful argument.”
Duh…
So, all those billions spent on television campaigns and shaming boys in schools has turned out to be misguided.
Ms Hill and her fellow author, UNSW criminologist Michael Salter, raise the possibility that it is increasing resentment by young men – which could backfire.
“Situating all little boys as potential perpetrators not only risks diluting much needed resources and effort, but it also invites confusion and potentially backlash from boys and young men who were never at risk of hurting their partners in the first place.”
BANDWAGON
Yes, growing up in a culture where the government is paying for programs that falsely claim you and your mates are responsible for the rape and murder of women might just put you off that government, don’t you reckon? And put you off voting for all the Parties lining up to jump on this feminist bandwagon.
When will politicians realise that they will never appease the extremist feminists and misandrists who control not only social media but most legacy journalists?
Of course, even our conservative politicians are driven by fear – fear of looking out of touch. To hell with the facts, with issues of fairness, and even with what is best for our nation.
Maybe there is a way through this policy paralysis from cowered politicians ever nervous of offending the rabid feminists.
A new approach has emerged in Norway, one of the Left’s favoured countries, which has released the final report from their Men’s Equality Commission.
Norway’s Commission has announced a clear rejection of zero-sum thinking – working on behalf of boys and men does not dilute the ideals of gender equality, it applies them.
Here’s how the Commission framed the argument: “Many boys and men do not feel that equality is about them, or exists for them.
“The men’s committee believes that equality’s next step should be to include boys and men’s challenges to a greater extent than today… Greater attention to boys’ and men’s equality challenges will strengthen equality policy, not weaken it.”
ISOLATION
This evidence-based report spells out gender gaps in a range of key areas: education, work, health, leisure, crime, family life and social isolation.
And makes strong recommendations, including more men studying for careers in health, education and social care. Plus, gender neutral equality law – now how’s that for a radical suggestion?
The Commission also calls on the Research Council in Norway to explicitly take up the challenge of improving the knowledge base on many of the issues tackled in the report.
That means more data transparency too, calling for “a review and revision of the statistics pages and indicators for gender equality so that they reflect the equality challenges of boys and men to a greater extent than today”.
Hmm.
Can you imagine the onslaught from our rabid media if we were to suggest more data transparency when it comes to domestic violence statistics, or worse, evidence-based domestic violence policies?
But the Norway solution does offer a framework for appealing directed to the enlightened majority keen for proper solutions rather than prolonged gender wars.PC
Rabid feminists are lefties; lefties are never satisfied because their life mission is for continual appeasement of their insatiable ego needs. All the great causes they supposedly espouse have no other purpose other then their ego vindication. They espouse these often non existent and destructive issues like anthropogenic global warming, AGW, for the sole reason of vindicating their sense of moral superiority. They are destroying the West and don’t care because they only want personal power, even if it is over a moonscape of a wrecked society.
Furthermore they are cowards. They only attack the West because the West is a soft target which allows destructive people like feminists to have their way. Have you ever heard any of them criticise Islam in which women have NO rights at all. They are vile hypocrites and the fact they have so much influence is both an indictment of the cowardice of conservatives (sic) and the hypocrisy of the feminists.
As always, knocking it out of the park.
If you look at all media as advertising, which it is, the more you mention vapes, for example, or suicide, the more people think about it and are more likely to do it. So with DV, racism, sexism, LGBT+ and every other trope of the left. The elites know this and are doing it on purpose. We have government by media advertising using our money.