Demonising Men While Ignoring Female Filicide Data

If you’re a man in Australia, you’d be fully aware of the anti-male rhetoric currently occurring in the Australian Government and the media regarding violence against women. One would think there are only male criminals in Australia, which is obviously, and rationally, not true. Obviously, the vast majority of men are not criminals, so to make us all feel guilty over this is insulting. For example, MPs Amanda Rishworth, Minister for Social Services, and Justine Elliot, Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence, just yesterday released a statement titled, “Investing to help keep women and children safe”. They promise to “lead the development of national, evidence-based standards for men’s behaviour change programs.” They will fund “services designed to break the intergenerational transmission of violence and programs that work with men – including men’s behaviour change”, and will develop “evidence-based standards for men’s behaviour change”. As I said, rationally, we all know that it’s not just