I think, in many parts of the Western world, the time of politicians flat-out ignoring men’s and boys’ issues is over.
And so begins a new era where politicians, particularly those on the left, bend over backwards, performing incredible mental gymnastics, to reconcile the emerging crisis of men and boys within their own narrow, dogmatic worldview.
I am talking about the strange phenomenon of policies that claim to “help men and boys”, but only as far as it actually helps women and girls, and not a single step further.
These are the academics, advocates and so-called “masculinity experts”, who spend all their time opining about “male violence”, and nothing else.
And so -
Any hope you have that politicians might take seriously the failure and abuse of boys in education, the chronic neglect of men’s health, or the betrayal of male victims, will have to wait.
Instead, the ambition of these new ‘Ministers for Men’ is to primarily help women and girls through “healthy masculinities”, “male accountability” and the deprogramming of “toxic” male mindsets.
So we are gifted with incredulous new job titles like ‘the Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change’ in Australia.
These are positions that wouldn’t look out of place next to George Orwell’s “Minister of Truth”, or within other political dystopias, except this one… is real.
So what is to be said about this political halfway house that claims to address the problems of men and boys, but, when you look at the details, reveals something else - something that might be the exact opposite?
What do you think?
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Talking with Big Bros Podcast
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