It hasn’t been much fun being a bloke in Australia in 2021

Brisbane Courier Mail

Mike O’Connor: It hasn’t been much fun being a bloke in Australia in 2021

There’s a story no one has the courage to tell and it revolves around Aussie blokes and how they’re being judged based on the repulsive actions of a few, writes Mike O’Connor.

There will be no Oscar for the government’s derided sexual consent “milkshake video” after the puerile $3.8 million educational commercial was dumped within days of its release.

There is, however, a video crying out to be made and which the government, if it has the courage, might like to entertain.

It would be inexpensive to make and would merely require a large room and one camera with all the cast appearing free of charge.

They would be exclusively male – fathers, grandfathers and sons – who would tell the audience how it hasn’t been much fun being a bloke in Australia in 2021.

They’d like to tell their story, the one in which they work to support and educate their partners and children. The grandfathers would relate how they have suffered through economic hardship and lived frugal lives so that when they die, they will have something to leave their children.

The sons will tell how they admire their fathers for their work ethic and their tireless support of them and their mothers and sisters and thank them for driving them to do their best in all their endeavours.

Aussie blokes deserve a fair go and not to be judged based on the repulsive actions of a few, writes Mike O’Connor.

Aussie blokes deserve a fair go and not to be judged based on the repulsive actions of a few, writes Mike O’Connor.

The fathers would speak of their love and admiration they have for their wives and their gratitude for their efforts in keeping the household functioning while juggling the twin burdens of work and domestic responsibilities.

They’d relate how they abhorred violence against women and would defend the female members of their tribe against any predator.

They would say that the concept of rape is completely foreign to their ethos. They hold certain principles close to their hearts – honesty, integrity and a belief in giving everyone a fair go – but above all else, they would tell their audience that rape or any form of forced sexual encounter is something that they have never and would never entertain.


They would tell the camera of the hurt that they have felt at the anger that has been directed towards their gender at large because of the widely publicised misdeeds of a few.

They feel the urge to stand on a street corner and shout; “we’re not all like that. Look at us. We are principled human beings who have always followed the course of our moral compass. We struggle to understand how anyone can act so callously towards their fellows of any sex.”

The women in their life they regard with a mixture of respect and awe, emotions rooted in the knowledge that there are so many things that they do better than men. It may not be something that they speak of publicly but it is a firmly held belief.

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The sons would say that they hope to meet a partner and raise a family which they would support and protect. The fathers would say that they have tried to do the right thing by those who rely on them for support.

They have helped their parents through the latter stages of their lives and will continue to do so until the end while doing their best to provide a comfortable retirement for their partner while planning, in the best of Australian traditions, of “leaving something for the kids.”

The grandfathers would tell the camera how much they have seen things change and how they sometimes struggle to understand the attitudes and values of the younger generations.

They would say, however, that they taught their sons to respect their fellows and their property and to always be true to themselves.

These older citizens are perplexed beyond comprehension at the violence they see played out in television news bulletins. They have given up trying to understand it.

The fathers worry that their children will suffer some random attack while enjoying a night out with their mates but feel helpless to do much more than say “look after yourself. Stay safe” whenever they leave the house.

They worry because that is what caring, loving parents do.

The men would tell their audience that they know, from speaking to their peers, that a lot of men are beginning to feel like strangers in their own country and that they are being seen as being cast in the same mould as the men whose actions against women they find so repulsive.

They would say to the women of Australia – “Give us a fair go. We’re with you in this. We are all of the same nation and in this together. “

“If we hear any of our fellows showing disrespect to women, we will come down on them with all our force. That’s our job – protecting the women in our lives and it always has been.”

“All we ask in return is to judge us by our own actions, standards and principles and not to judge us by the actions of a few.”

Mike O’Connor

Mike O’ConnorColumnist

An opinion writer for The Courier Mail, Mike provides valuable insight and analysis about Queensland’s political environment.

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Fake rape crisis fails to penetrate Fake rape crisis fails to penetrate

 

 

 

Fake rape crisis fails to penetrate.

Hi Everybody,

Well, the activists who plotted the recent carefully orchestrated rape crisis campaign could have done with more due diligence regarding the key women they chose to tug the public’s heartstrings.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that they have hitched their wagon to young activists seeking a lot more than 15 minutes of fame.

Just look at recent antics from Brittany Higgins, the woman who alleged she’d been raped in a Minister’s office in Parliament House, after being found by security guards drunk and naked on the office couch. Last week we learnt that she’d signed a $250,000 book contract for her tell-all autobiography. Not sure how you can tell all when you claim to have been totally inebriated for the entire main event, but still….

Next came news that she’d formed her own company – Brittany Higgins Pty Ltd. That will have to prove lucrative if it is to support both Higgins and her partner, media analyst and former SBS journalist David Sharaz, now both unemployed. Sharaz claimed he was forced to resign from his  media company “for fear that the Morrison government would punish the company in which he works by destroying government contacts.”

Higgins has been trying to meet with the Prime Minister since March but this week went public with her frustrations that the man hadn’t made time for her all-important meeting. In a letter she wrote to the PM’s chief of staff, Brittany Higgins explained she plans to use a meeting with Scott Morrison to pursue measures to “counter the systemic coercive control inside Parliament House”.

In a gobsmacking own goal, she highlights her own shockingly unprofessional behaviour by suggesting security staff should have the ability to “refuse access to a clearly inebriated person at 1am over the weekend” and “call an ambulance in the wake of finding a partially naked unconscious” woman.

How the PM must be looking forward to his session with this entitled young woman, particularly as she has demanded the right to bring advocates to provide support at the meeting.

Here’s Rod Clement from The Australian’s amusing take on the prospective meeting:

The Graceless Tame

Then there’s Grace Tame who recently blotted her copybook by taking a potshot at Senator Amanda Stoker following her appointment as the new Assistant Minister for women. Funnily enough Tame used my own work to attack Stoker by claiming she had supported a “fake rape crisis tour” – which was actually the speaking tour I conducted on campuses to draw attention to their kangaroo courts.

“The new Assistant Minister for Women is someone who previously endorsed a ‘fake rape crisis’ tour, aimed at falsifying instances of sexual abuse on school and university campuses across Australia,” Ms Tame wrote. “It goes without saying that this came at an immeasurable cost to already traumatised student survivors.”

Stoker dealt very neatly with the attack – “Ms Tame’s comments are passionate but not informed,” she said, spelling out her own credentials in addressing such matters, including work as a public prosecutor advocating for sexual assault victims.

Tame’s attempt to use my campus tour to damage Stoker proved very useful, with all sorts of sensible people coming out of the woodwork to explain the purpose of my campus campaign. Here’s Liz Storer from GT Communications doing a great job spelling it out on Sky News.
Now Tame seems to be ducking Stoker’s attempt to meet with her. Jamie Walker in The Australian describes Stoker reading out her messages to Tame, trying to arrange a meeting. All her approaches were met with a stony silence. Stoker suggested Tames’ attack was simply “a bit of a cheap political shot.”

That’s proving to be very much Tame’s style. Just before her award was announced, her boyfriend posted a video on his Instagram showing Tame walking up behind the PM, with the caption: ‘Creeping up like climate change’. The very next day she removed actor Geoffrey Rush’s photo from the wall honouring previous winners and dashed it to the ground. Since then she has taken endless pot shots at favourite feminist targets, including rebuking the PM for daring to say his wife had clarified the issue of sexual assault.

The young woman spent much of her early adult life living in Hollywood, hobnobbing with minor celebrities and yearning for her moment in the sun. She’s making the most of it.

Christian Porter’s alleged victim

The third “rape victim” caught up in this campaign was a woman with mental illness who had decided she didn’t want to proceed with the historic rape allegation against Attorney General Christian Porter before she tragically took her own life. She acknowledged her own concerns that her mental condition caused her to ‘detach from reality’. Her family pleaded with the ABC not to broadcast the claims.

But naturally the self-righteous mob knew better and chose to expose this poor woman’s tragic story in order to damage the government and promote their cause.

The whole manufactured rape crisis is far from a joke. Throughout history, similar rape panics have been used to demonize particular groups, often with deadly results. I was reminded recently of the thousands of black men who were lynched in America when the Ku Klux Clan chose to stir up racial anger by using allegations that these men were raping white women.

Have a look at this excellent article just published in Quillette on the Ugly History of Rape Panics. He exposes the role of feminists in promoting rape panics to pursue their own agendas, right back to Rebecca Latimer Felton, America’s first female senator and a feminist campaigner, who said in 1898, at the peak of the lynching movement:

“When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organise a crusade against sin; nor justice in the courthouse to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”

Doesn’t that have chilling echoes of today’s rhetoric about our criminal justice system failing to protect victims and punish rapists?

Already the current panic has led to young men are being expelled from schools, and some are taking their lives as a result of ongoing targeting of male sexuality. We need to respond seriously, not to the false narrative about women’s safety but to the risks this orchestrated rape panic could pose for men.

Luckily the quiet Australians are not convinced.

We can take heart from the fact that despite all the feminist squawking and thousands of woke women filling the streets, as far as the general public is concerned the whole campaign has sunk without a trace.

Joe Hildebrand wrote recently about a union survey which showed Labor is on the nose due to their obsession with woke issues. Private research commissioned by the NSW Electrical Trades Union showed 42 per cent of union members saw “gender issues” as the biggest distraction to what government should really be focusing on.

Just this week came the Resolve Political Monitor, new survey research from the  SMH and The Age, which found that only 5% of those surveyed saw sexual assault/harassment and gender issues as important in determining their vote.

It is total madness for politicians to give in to this noisy minority group, so distorting these key issues for their own political ends. It is very worrying that ScoMo and his ministers seem so intent on caving into demands for sexual consent courses in schools, and more measures to promote ‘believe women’ justice, at the expense of fair treatment for men.

That’s why we need you all to help recruit people to join the Mothers of Sons campaign – They don’t speak for me! Please use the template on their website and send in your letters to MPs today.

I was delighted to appear with Alan Jones on Sky News earlier this week, where he did a magnificent job making the case that we all have to speak up and take on this mob.

Here’s the video of our interview – please help me circulate it widely.
https://youtu.be/czwdZyH9jcA

Tragic news for a devoted dad

To end on a very sad note, regular readers may remember that earlier this month I had a live chat on thinkspot with two parents of trans-identifying sons. We had a long, serious conversation about the dreadful pressures on parents in this circumstance, who struggle to protect their sons from medical intervention that could eventually lead to castration – a fact no one ever mentions.

One of the parents I spoke to was Bill, whose son had suffered from cancer from a very early age. After supporting his son through numerous bouts of cancer throughout his childhood, Bill found himself caught up in a mighty battle when his son, now at college, suddenly decided he was in the wrong body and wanted hormone treatment. Oncologists treating the boy said this would kill him, but other doctors and health professionals were determined to support his desire to transition.

I spoke at length to Bill about this frightful ordeal. Here’s the video – https://youtu.be/dhVaxuj0MUI

I hope you will listen to this brave, loving father describe the incredibly irresponsible behaviour of the many professionals lined up against him.

Early this week, I learnt that Bill’s son has just died. When I wrote to offer my condolences, Bill sent a note saying: “I was completely blindsided when the police officer came to my house and told me my daughter was found unresponsive in her room. It took several minutes to realize it was my son they were talking about.”

Until next time, Tina.

Bettina Arndt Fake rape crisis fails to penetrate

 

 

 

 

 

Fake rape crisis fails to penetrate.

 

Hi Everybody,

 

Well, the activists who plotted the recent carefully orchestrated rape crisis campaign could have done with more due diligence regarding the key women they chose to tug the public’s heartstrings.

 

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that they have hitched their wagon to young activists seeking a lot more than 15 minutes of fame.

 

Just look at recent antics from Brittany Higgins, the woman who alleged she’d been raped in a Minister’s office in Parliament House, after being found by security guards drunk and naked on the office couch. Last week we learnt that she’d signed a $250,000 book contract for her tell-all autobiography. Not sure how you can tell all when you claim to have been totally inebriated for the entire main event, but still….

 

Next came news that she’d formed her own company – Brittany Higgins Pty Ltd. That will have to prove lucrative if it is to support both Higgins and her partner, media analyst and former SBS journalist David Sharaz, now both unemployed. Sharaz claimed he was forced to resign from his  media company “for fear that the Morrison government would punish the company in which he works by destroying government contacts.”

 

Higgins has been trying to meet with the Prime Minister since March but this week went public with her frustrations that the man hadn’t made time for her all-important meeting. In a letter she wrote to the PM’s chief of staff, Brittany Higgins explained she plans to use a meeting with Scott Morrison to pursue measures to “counter the systemic coercive control inside Parliament House”.

 

In a gobsmacking own goal, she highlights her own shockingly unprofessional behaviour by suggesting security staff should have the ability to “refuse access to a clearly inebriated person at 1am over the weekend” and “call an ambulance in the wake of finding a partially naked unconscious” woman.

 

How the PM must be looking forward to his session with this entitled young woman, particularly as she has demanded the right to bring advocates to provide support at the meeting.

 

Here’s Rod Clement from The Australian’s amusing take on the prospective meeting:

 

 

 

The Graceless Tame

 

Then there’s Grace Tame who recently blotted her copybook by taking a potshot at Senator Amanda Stoker following her appointment as the new Assistant Minister for women. Funnily enough Tame used my own work to attack Stoker by claiming she had supported a “fake rape crisis tour” – which was actually the speaking tour I conducted on campuses to draw attention to their kangaroo courts. 

 

“The new Assistant Minister for Women is someone who previously endorsed a ‘fake rape crisis’ tour, aimed at falsifying instances of sexual abuse on school and university campuses across Australia,” Ms Tame wrote. “It goes without saying that this came at an immeasurable cost to already traumatised student survivors.”

 

Stoker dealt very neatly with the attack – “Ms Tame’s comments are passionate but not informed,” she said, spelling out her own credentials in addressing such matters, including work as a public prosecutor advocating for sexual assault victims.

 

Tame’s attempt to use my campus tour to damage Stoker proved very useful, with all sorts of sensible people coming out of the woodwork to explain the purpose of my campus campaign. Here’s Liz Storer from GT Communications doing a great job spelling it out on Sky News.

Now Tame seems to be ducking Stoker’s attempt to meet with her. Jamie Walker in The Australian describes Stoker reading out her messages to Tame, trying to arrange a meeting. All her approaches were met with a stony silence. Stoker suggested Tames’ attack was simply “a bit of a cheap political shot.”

 

That’s proving to be very much Tame’s style. Just before her award was announced, her boyfriend posted a video on his Instagram showing Tame walking up behind the PM, with the caption: ‘Creeping up like climate change’. The very next day she removed actor Geoffrey Rush’s photo from the wall honouring previous winners and dashed it to the ground. Since then she has taken endless pot shots at favourite feminist targets, including rebuking the PM for daring to say his wife had clarified the issue of sexual assault.  

 

The young woman spent much of her early adult life living in Hollywood, hobnobbing with minor celebrities and yearning for her moment in the sun. She’s making the most of it.

 

Christian Porter’s alleged victim

 

The third “rape victim” caught up in this campaign was a woman with mental illness who had decided she didn’t want to proceed with the historic rape allegation against Attorney General Christian Porter before she tragically took her own life. She acknowledged her own concerns that her mental condition caused her to ‘detach from reality’. Her family pleaded with the ABC not to broadcast the claims.

 

But naturally the self-righteous mob knew better and chose to expose this poor woman’s tragic story in order to damage the government and promote their cause.

 

The whole manufactured rape crisis is far from a joke. Throughout history, similar rape panics have been used to demonize particular groups, often with deadly results. I was reminded recently of the thousands of black men who were lynched in America when the Ku Klux Clan chose to stir up racial anger by using allegations that these men were raping white women.

 

Have a look at this excellent article just published in Quillette on the Ugly History of Rape Panics. He exposes the role of feminists in promoting rape panics to pursue their own agendas, right back to Rebecca Latimer Felton, America’s first female senator and a feminist campaigner, who said in 1898, at the peak of the lynching movement:

 

“When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organise a crusade against sin; nor justice in the courthouse to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”

 

Doesn’t that have chilling echoes of today’s rhetoric about our criminal justice system failing to protect victims and punish rapists?

 

Already the current panic has led to young men are being expelled from schools, and some are taking their lives as a result of ongoing targeting of male sexuality. We need to respond seriously, not to the false narrative about women’s safety but to the risks this orchestrated rape panic could pose for men.

 

Luckily the quiet Australians are not convinced.

 

We can take heart from the fact that despite all the feminist squawking and thousands of woke women filling the streets, as far as the general public is concerned the whole campaign has sunk without a trace.

 

Joe Hildebrand wrote recently about a union survey which showed Labor is on the nose due to their obsession with woke issues. Private research commissioned by the NSW Electrical Trades Union showed 42 per cent of union members saw “gender issues” as the biggest distraction to what government should really be focusing on.

 

Just this week came the Resolve Political Monitor, new survey research from the  SMH and The Age, which found that only 5% of those surveyed saw sexual assault/harassment and gender issues as important in determining their vote.

 

It is total madness for politicians to give in to this noisy minority group, so distorting these key issues for their own political ends. It is very worrying that ScoMo and his ministers seem so intent on caving into demands for sexual consent courses in schools, and more measures to promote ‘believe women’ justice, at the expense of fair treatment for men.

 

That’s why we need you all to help recruit people to join the Mothers of Sons campaign – They don’t speak for me! Please use the template on their website and send in your letters to MPs today.

 

I was delighted to appear with Alan Jones on Sky News earlier this week, where he did a magnificent job making the case that we all have to speak up and take on this mob.

 

Here’s the video of our interview – please help me circulate it widely.

https://youtu.be/czwdZyH9jcA

 

 

 

Tragic news for a devoted dad

 

To end on a very sad note, regular readers may remember that earlier this month I had a live chat on thinkspot with two parents of trans-identifying sons. We had a long, serious conversation about the dreadful pressures on parents in this circumstance, who struggle to protect their sons from medical intervention that could eventually lead to castration – a fact no one ever mentions.

 

One of the parents I spoke to was Bill, whose son had suffered from cancer from a very early age. After supporting his son through numerous bouts of cancer throughout his childhood, Bill found himself caught up in a mighty battle when his son, now at college, suddenly decided he was in the wrong body and wanted hormone treatment. Oncologists treating the boy said this would kill him, but other doctors and health professionals were determined to support his desire to transition.

 

I spoke at length to Bill about this frightful ordeal. Here’s the video – https://youtu.be/dhVaxuj0MUI

 

I hope you will listen to this brave, loving father describe the incredibly irresponsible behaviour of the many professionals lined up against him.

 

Early this week, I learnt that Bill’s son has just died. When I wrote to offer my condolences, Bill sent a note saying: “I was completely blindsided when the police officer came to my house and told me my daughter was found unresponsive in her room. It took several minutes to realize it was my son they were talking about.”

 

Until next time, Tina.

 

Bettina Arndt

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