‘Prawn of the Patriarchy‘ is a combination of personal blog and annotated bibliography. For me it’s a way to keep track of notable articles/papers that I might otherwise never find again. For readers it’s a place to find information that provides a different perspective on a range of gender-related issues – often material that would be difficult to locate within the mainstream media.
Comments and suggestions in relation to the various posts found here are welcomed (moderation policy here).
The topics encompassed in this blog include:
Domestic violence
Sex, sexuality and sexual violence
Men’s and boys health
Partnering, marriage and fatherhood
Gender in the workplace
Institutional bias against men & boys
Gender in the media
Feminism and key elements of the feminist narrative
Feminist censorship and retribution
The Men’s Rights Movement
Yet to be categorized and ‘Other’
About this blog
My Twitter stream
Domestic violence
Domestic violence: Overview and statistics
Domestic violence is not a gendered issue – Why the pervasive sexist bias against men?
Male victims of domestic violence – How the scale of the problem is routinely minimised or ignored
Male victims of domestic violence – Some personal accounts
Another feminist myth: Most male victims of domestic violence are abused by other men
Male victims of domestic violence – do help-lines actually help?
Grotesque hypocrisy by feminist politicians (re: domestic violence)
The Duluth Model: The theoretical basis for the feminist approach to domestic violence
On rubbish research – Fudging the figures to support the feminist narrative
On deaths related to domestic violence
Finessing definitions to preserve the image of female victimhood
On false accusations by women (esp. sexual assault, domestic abuse & paternity fraud)
Is child abuse a gendered crime too?
Let’s be honest now: Men do not perpetrate the ‘overwhelming majority’ of domestic violence
On violence perpetrated, or instigated, by women and girls
Fact or Factoid: A woman hospitalised every three hours due to DV
Domestic violence: DV-related organisations (government and private)
Partners in alms: A primer on the ‘Domestic Violence Industry’
Has there been a surge in domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic?
No to Violence: Working together to end men’s family violence
Men’s Referral Service: Clayton’s support for male victims of domestic violence
Two awareness campaigns. Only one can be criticised. Cowed by feminism?
Australian feminist attacks integrity of advocacy group for male victims of domestic violence
White Ribbon campaign to men: Stand up! Speak up! Shut up!
Some further thoughts regarding the White Ribbon Campaign (feminist version)
Domestic Violence NSW censors dissenting views (before lapsing into paranoid delusion)
‘DV Connect’ is “non-judgemental” (but men calling their helpline are sneaky perpetrators)
‘Our Watch’: DV advocacy or shrill mouthpiece for gender feminism?
Feminist advocacy group ‘Our Watch’ seeks shield from public scrutiny
‘Our Watch’: Just how heartless (or deeply in denial) can people be?
Addressing systemic gender bias in the WA Department for Child Protection and Family Support
*That* West Australian Government DV Helpline web page – Some further background
Gender bias at the Australian Department of Social Services
NSW feminist groups seek to roll back reform of domestic violence shelters
Domestic violence: Public inquiries
Another Australian domestic violence inquiry (2024)
A review of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act – A submission by the One in Three campaign
Draft National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032
#GenderEqualityWhenItSuits: A submission to the Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012
The Queensland government again demonstrates its ‘why bother about men?’ attitude
Australian Federal Family Law Inquiry 2019
West Australian inquiry into family & domestic violence (2019)
Another federal government domestic violence inquiry – This one focuses on family law
Gender bias and wasted opportunities at the 2017 National Family Violence Summit
Regarding the report of the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence
OMG. Another domestic violence inquiry. They sure have loaded the dice with this one
My submission to the 2016 Federal Government Inquiry into Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality
Another government inquiry to tell us that domestic violence = men beating women because patriarchy (NSW)
My submission to the Australian Government Inquiry into Domestic Violence
My submission to the Premier’s Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland
My response to the report of the Queensland Task Force on Family Violence
Yet another Australian inquiry into domestic violence (Victoria)
My submission to the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence (May 2015)
Domestic violence: Public attitudes and DV in the media
Public events & domestic violence myth
On women providing public displays of racism
Differing public response to partner violence depending on gender of victim
A useful portrayal of victims of domestic violence … from an unlikely source
ABC Q&A program highlights gender inequality within the domestic violence debate
Readers at ‘The Conversation’ call for an end to feminist bias and censorship
Going Batty: The making of a champion of the Domestic Violence Industry
But when a woman hits a man it’s different
Hope Solo case exemplifies rank hypocrisy re: domestic violence
A busy few weeks for gender matters (Aug/Sept 2014)
‘Bristly Woman’ campaign launch
Domestic violence: Other
Feminist myth: Women usually only commit domestic violence in self-defence
No place for feminist propaganda in our schools or universities
Sallee McLaren must write on the blackboard “I must not challenge the feminist narrative”
Australian government announces intention to reprogram boys to reduce domestic violence
On the suggestion that women-only police stations might help the fight against domestic violence
Dubious public policy borne from the denial of female violence
Academic paper on gender equality and gender hostility
Sex, sexuality and sexual violence
On sexual assault and unwanted sex
Sex education … Well, the fanciful one-sided woke fantasy that’s currently held up as wisdom & truth
On sugar-daddies, OnlyFans and other variations of Hooking Lite
I don’t want no menfolk near my daughters, you hear?
Romance tourism is just nothing like sex-tourism
On the feminist myth of ‘rape culture’
That porn-sharing web site: Time for a reality check
About what happened in Cologne
‘Mattress Girl’ and some other recent notable campus rape allegations
Finessing definitions to preserve the image of female victimhood
On false accusations by women (esp. sexual assault, domestic abuse & paternity fraud)
On women having ‘flings’ with children & students
Denying female perpetration of sex crimes – The Mercier Affair
On women attracted to guys with partners
Girls showing their bits = empowerment? patriarchal exploitation? self-indulgence? other?
Don’t talk to me! No wait. Talk to me!
Deep down in places that feminists don’t talk about at parties (‘pussy cartel’)
Fembots may prove to be a game changer
Human trafficking of men and boys & other hidden sexual violence against males
On the issue of traveller safety
On the sexualisation of children
Men’s and boys health
Coronavirus: Women most affected
On men’s health: The statistics and the underlying factors
One charity’s perplexing response to a potential source of donations
Funding for Sydney men’s health service axed
Another double-standard: Genital mutilation
The men’s shed movement: A little bit ‘rad’ and a little bit sad
Partnering, marriage and fatherhood
The ‘Marriage Strike’ and MGTOW
On ‘spurgling’, paternity theft and baby stealing
One possible alternative to pre-nuptial agreements
On housework and ‘Emotional Labour’
Apparently there’s not enough “educated” men nowadays
Are dads still being Mackintoshed?
On Spousal Maintenance / Alimony
Len & The Lamprey: The other side to the issue of financial abuse
Don’t look at me! No wait. Look at me!
Nice guys, nice guys™ and the friendzone
On false accusations by women against men/boys
Two days each year to celebrate men
Men, women and feminists – Their differing attitudes to marriage & parenthood
We’ve all heard of the gender ‘income gap’, but what about the ‘expense gap’?
Western men with Asian women: Gender relations through a different frame of reference
On Australian men seeking foreign partners
Gender in the workplace
#GenderEqualityWhenItSuits: A submission to the Review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012
Achieving personal financial security is important for everyone, but dodgy research helps no-one
How feminists misrepresent the gender ‘income gap’
That tired old feminist chestnut that is the ‘gender wage gap’ resurrected in Australia
We’ve all heard of the gender ‘income gap’, but what about the ‘expense gap’?
Organisations with women at the helm perform better (so they say)
Harassment and discrimination in the workplace: Surprise, surprise, it goes both ways
Less than 50/50 representation does not automatically imply ‘gender bias’
Recruitment bias favours hiring female staff
On affirmative action and the imposition of gender quotas
‘Diversity’: A buzzword that sounds good but is often misused
Institutional bias against men & boys
Australia’s E-Safety Office: A potentially sound initiative now awash with feminist kool-aid
On taxation and the ‘Female Economy’
The Australian Institute of Family Studies – another taxpayer-funded feminist mouthpiece
Excuse me NSW Government, your gender bias and lack of objectivity is showing (again)
Discrimination against males in the context of humanitarian agencies/causes
Australian 2016 Federal Election: No party willing to step up to the mark for men & boys
Profound gender bias at the Australian Human Rights Commission (Part 1)
Profound gender bias at the Australian Human Rights Commission (Part 2)
George Brandis declines opportunity to address bias at the Australian Human Rights Commission
We’ve set a target of having 10% of our senior management team female by 2017
When banks divert from banking to social engineering
Re-instatement of the Women’s Budget Statement in Australia? Bring it on, but consider men too
Gender bigots elevated into positions of considerable authority: Some case-studies
Australian taxpayer-funded organisations that do little/nothing for men (other than demonising them)
When even the Prime Minister’s office imposes pro-feminist censorship …
Addressing systemic gender bias in the WA Department for Child Protection and Family Support
*That* West Australian Government DV Helpline web page – Some further background
Queensland Government continues to ignore male victims of domestic violence
Gender bias at the Australian Department of Social Services
White Ribbon Day – Parliament House Library says dissenting voices “deemed not to be relevant”
Australian Government cuts back funding to advocacy groups, except feminist ones
Gender inequality within the criminal justice system
Just how heartless (or deeply in denial) can people be? (domestic violence)
No place for feminist propaganda in our schools or universities
Regarding the granting of gender-specific scholarships in Australia
Gender in the media
Persistent pro-feminist and anti-male bias in the mainstream media
Rights are for women. Responsibilities are for men
When men have a daughter (another tale of male-blaming and silencing)
A few observations in relation to yet another article critical of men
New Zealand journalist labels men as the ultimate predators
Women attack first responders yet omitted from ‘awareness’ campaign
Gendered, gendered, gendered: The word that fuels the feminist machine
About what happened in Cologne (and in its aftermath)
The people speak: Feminist journalist hears but won’t listen
How men are portrayed … Haw Haw Haw! The jokes on us
#FireClementineFord: A case-study in feminist hypocrisy
How tragic that feminists ignore their role in demonising men
#SydneySiege reporting showcases further examples of feminist hypocrisy
The often contrasting media reaction when mums and dads kill their children
Some observations regarding information sources concerning filicide
Bring back our girls! (The ‘Empathy Gap’ & The ‘Disposable Male’)
Deconstructing pro-feminist articles in news.com.au
Readers at ‘The Conversation’ call for an end to feminist bias and censorship (domestic violence)
Moderator zaps post, but for once it wasn’t (just) mine
The ‘Sunrise’ Strippergate episode
‘Sunrise’ TV crew stir up the feminists again
‘Sunrise’ TV show offers sop to feminists
‘Sunrise’ provides equal time for feminism and men rights
Good news: Males acknowledged on morning TV (not in a bad way)
Seeking a news source without feminist bias
Feminism and key elements of the feminist narrative
Not all feminists are like that (NAFALT)
The Australian Gender Equality Council
Not our fault so who we gonna blame? The (scary scary) patriarchy!
Diversity Council Australia fails to understand ‘diversity’
A feminist laments: “Why do so few men turn up to hear women speak?”
Men’s studies = bad/negative but Women’s studies = good/positive
Are feminists truly committed to equality for all women and girls?
About what happened in Cologne (and in its aftermath)
To feminists ‘Equality’ is just a marketing ploy to get what they really want
Denying female perpetration of sex crimes – The Mercier Affair
On privilege, respect, and entitlement
If feminists have a genuine case then what’s with all the distortion, lies and exaggeration?
#HeForShe: Men pressed into service with nary a hint of ‘quid pro quo’
Less than 50/50 representation does not automatically imply ‘gender bias’
On Gender Traitors, White Knights and Manginas
Dissing shy guys and fat women: Yep, another feminist double-standard
Do feminists have any male heroes?
On feminists, white feathers and Anzac Day
Feminists aiming to strengthen their foothold in Thailand
Feminist censorship and retribution
On the censorship and erasure of non-feminist perspectives and opinions
Respect women (… well, unless they respect men)
The 2017 Women’s March, Women’s Strike & other anti-Trump protests
More feminist censorship: Cancellation of the Australian premiere of The Red Pill movie
Van Badham’s eye roll: Just hysterical
#FireClementineFord: A case-study in feminist hypocrisy
Australian feminist attacks integrity of advocacy group for male victims of domestic violence
Beware the ire of an angry feminist
The Unbearable Lameness of Being
Domestic Violence NSW censors dissenting views (before lapsing into paranoid delusion)
White Ribbon Day – Parliament House Library says dissenting voices “deemed not to be relevant”
The Elliot Rodger tragedy co-opted as a feminist bandwagon
Karen Straughan and others on feminist shaming tactics
Readers at ‘The Conversation’ call for an end to feminist bias and censorship (domestic violence)
More about the ‘moderation’ of comments at ‘The Conversation’
Regarding the notion of ‘Ironic Misandry’
On the inability to cope with criticism in a mature manner (You disagree with me = You hate women)
Feminist efforts to shut down, disrupt and/or denigrate the 2014 Conference on Mens Issues
What George Will wrote – and what happened next
The Men’s Rights Movement
Mens human rights activism: A growing tide of men and women saying “Enough is enough!”
“How they conduct themselves in public”
Cassie Jaye and Karen Straughan in Sydney, Australia
Criticism and negative portrayal of the men’s rights movement
Dealing with mens issues – The current situation in Australia
Thank you Bev, whoever you are
Advocating for men/boys online: How much benefit to be had in one-on-one interaction with feminists?
Australian minor political parties and their views on feminism & men’s rights
Feminist efforts to shut down, disrupt and/or denigrate the 2014 Conference on Mens Issues
International Conference on Men’s Issues 2015 (Houston, TX, October 29-31)
International Conference on Men’s Issues, 2016
The ‘Marriage Strike’ and MGTOW
Two days each year to celebrate men
Men’s studies = bad/negative but Women’s studies = good/positive
Interesting perspectives from a poster named ‘Bowspearer’
On being male or female
Men and women playing together nicely
How men are portrayed … Haw Haw Haw! The jokes on us
Men do more of most things … get a target painted on their backs
Women are held accountable for … (say hello to the Teflon Gender)
On being male or female (incl. innate differences, stereotyping and so on)
I thought women were meant to be more empathetic?
Yet to be categorized and ‘Other’
The (feminist) truth about Taj Mahal
The sham that is the Australian ‘Same Sex Marriage’ vote
On bigotry as art (#KillAllMen at NIDA)
“I wonder if we men would have behaved the same seeing women at a summit for men?”
How one union got drunk on feminist ‘kool-aid’ (CFMEU)
On male-only and women-only spaces
A dozen of western culture’s most historic documents (Feminism v Patriarchy)
Women and the (military) draft
Humour (at the expense of feminists)
Australian senator wants a man who is rich and well-hung
Regarding gender reversal and sexist double-standards
Some good comments in response to a blog post I came across today
What did you call me? On labelling and language in gender discourse
Privilege, respect and entitlement
About this blog
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