Imagine what will happen if the government’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill is passed.

It will put the onus on social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook to avoid promoting ‘misinformation’, particularly that which ‘results in harm or contributes to it’. That’s most of my work, according to my critics in the media and in the government…

Faced with the prospect of massive fines, social media companies are bound to err on the side of caution – by choosing to silence me, and those like me, totally. That could remove the few remaining opportunities I have to spread the word about what is happening to men.

The bill is an outrageous infringement of our civil liberties, putting our freedom of speech into the hands of a government-appointed entity. This concentration of power is bound to result in even more draconian laws and regulations adversely impacting men – with feminists running so many of our institutions.

We saw this with the eSafety Commissioner’s claims that women are ‘almost always’ the major victims of online abuse; ignoring the risks to men and boys of sexual exploitation – read my blog here.

So, please do your best to stop this bill getting through – by writing letters or, ideally, getting appointments to lobby the vital crossbenchers in the Senate who will determine the bill’s fate. The Libs have promised to vote against the bill (although they still say they will cook up their own version later). Here’s a petition you can sign – but the personal approach is far more effective.

We can’t afford to let this one go through to the keeper. We have allowed so much to slip by which has created a poisonous culture for men and boys. We set young men up for rape charges by allowing school sexual consent courses to teach girls that drunk sex is sexual assault.  We allowed feminists to invent and criminalise coercive control as the latest weapon to lock up men. We let Labor get away with removing all protection of children’s rights to contact with their fathers in last year’s Family Law Bill. The list goes on.

Day after day our society becomes less tolerable for men and boys – and male suicide rates continue to climb. Right now, the government is seeking feedback on the latest National Suicide Prevention Strategy which, like all previous strategies, strenuously avoids properly addressing the fact that 6 of the 8 suicides each day are male, downplays the key issue of relationship breakup as one of the major triggers, and proposes strategies which will ensure most funding continues to go to women. It’s an utter disgrace. Please spend the time to examine it properly and send in your scathing critiques here. My blog will give you relevant background.

The nonsense taking hold in our airlines might seem trivial in comparison – just one more insult in the never-ending male bashing. But it is worth taking a look at what is happening here…

Journalists are claiming a dramatic increase in sexual assaults on-board aircraft. Evil male hands creeping under blankets of sleeping women. Arms straying over armrests to nuzzle into a stranger’s breasts. Vulnerable women at the mercy of threatening predators.

Dig down into the alarmist reports and we discover an FBI report based on 96 cases of in-flight sexual assault allegations in 2023. That’s from over 800 million passengers on domestic flights! How’s that for a storm in a teacup?

No, no, no, they tell us. This is about keeping women safe! No matter how tiny the number of actual allegations, this is an issue of international importance. For years, journalists across the world have been lining up to make sure we get that message.

There are real cases being reported – such as the 22-year-old woman who woke up during a flight after a deep sleep taking various medications to discover a fellow passenger groping her body. His DNA was found by the FBI inside her underwear, and he was charged with sexual assault. Of course, it’s essential that measures are in place for reporting such crimes and protecting women.

That makes sense but, as always, there’s no sense of proportion. Instead, we find the whole issue being blown up into a major crisis, with women demanding special treatment to protect them while travelling including ideas such as ‘women-only rows’. Some mourn the loss of a few inches of arm room in case they brush elbows with a stranger and describe the airline armrest as a ‘gender political issue’.

In response to this type of hogwash, the airlines haven’t only set up ‘pink rows’, they are offering women the choice of seating so that they can avoid sitting next to men.

A few months ago, an Indian low-cost carrier became the first airline to allow female travellers to choose a seat next to another woman. Starting from August 2024, a trial has been taking place allowing female travellers checking in online to be able to see which adjacent seats have been booked by other female passengers – and make their seat choices accordingly.

The low-cost carrier is a codeshare partner of Qantas, and Australian passengers travel on-board its planes for destinations such as India, as well as within the country. Other airlines are allowing women (but not men) to avoid middle seats. What’s the bet we will see more airlines following suit with this blatantly anti-male practice?

All this follows many years of airlines imposing other discriminatory policies against men by prohibiting them from sitting next to minors on flights.

Boris Johnson, back in 2006, wrote a funny piece about flying in steerage and being approached by a British Airways flight attendant. ‘Please come with me, sir,’ she commanded. Johnson was delighted, assuming he’d been upgraded. ‘In my mind’s eye, I saw the first-class cabin, the spiral staircase to the head massage, the Champagne, the hot towels.’

But no. She was proposing to move him back to row 52, because, ‘We have very strict rules.’ He was baffled. She explained: ‘A man cannot sit with children.’

‘But he’s our FATHER,’ chimed the children. The matter was ultimately sorted out when the truth dawned that Johnson was travelling with his own children. ‘Very sorry,’ said the flight attendant. At that time this future Prime Minister was happy to rant about the injustice of it all:

‘In that single lunatic exchange you will see just about everything you need to know about our dementedly phobic and risk-averse society… I mean, come off it, folks. How many paedophiles can there be? Are we really saying that any time an adult male finds himself sitting next to someone under 16, he must expect to be hustled from his seat before the suspicious eyes of the entire cabin?’

He eagerly listed various villains: ‘I blame the media, I blame the judges, I blame the lobby groups, and in particular I blame the cowardly capitalist airline companies that give in to this sort of loony hysteria.’

Yet here was a man who, when acquiring the reins of power, did absolutely nothing to protect the rights of men. Speaking at a G7 summit during the Covid years he proposed countries must ‘build back better and fairer’, which he described as ‘a more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way’. He lobbied for better global education of marginal children – in programs which targeted only girls.

Let’s face it, men in power invariably avert their eyes to the gross distortions occurring in our anti-male society, desperate to avoid being accused by the feminist mob of having a ‘women problem’.

Here in Australia, we have just seen David Crisafulli, the Queensland Opposition leader who seems set for a huge win in the upcoming State election, promising to step down if he isn’t successful in bringing down crime numbers. He should look more closely at the Queensland government and its imminent plan to roll out absurd coercive control laws, which will inevitably send domestic violence crime rates through the roof.

There’s no magic wand. The only way we are going to change this poisonous culture is by all of us who care about men and boys getting active and fighting against it. Don’t write to me and say, ‘You should do this or that.’ You need to take a stand.

Women reading this who are offered a choice of seats on flights must not only refuse this option but write to the airline saying how offensive it is to treat men in this way. Media stories exposing how degrading it is to ask men to move in this circumstance can also put pressure on airlines. And we need to expose the fact that the absurd exaggeration of the risks of in-flight sexual assault inevitably encourages false allegations.

Yes, it is simply one more battleground. But if we really want to address discrimination against men it is a good place to start. It rests on such flimsy foundations that we’d have a huge cheer squad, of men and women, if we decided to take it on.