Suse.
The term Feminism as a pejorative lets the Right/conservatives off the hook, a better description is gynocentrism because it covers everyone from the Radfem to the Islamic hardliner.
Everyone currently in public life is a gynocentrist, the test is whether they place the needs of women and children over the well being of the nation as a whole and all politicans hold or at least publicly support this point of view.
All political parties also advocate paying women to do nothing and hiring women just because of their gender based on the 'wage gap' fallacy, it goes from human rights rent seekers like Jillian Triggs to Abbott and his paid parental leave scheme.

Suseonline,

Most people would not think lying about hitting a wall and rape were the same thing. Being accused of hitting a wall did, as intended, hurt Abbott politically. A rape accusation is much more serious. It can result in a lengthy jail sentence, will put the accussed under enormous stress and will not only destroy people politically but personally too. Just as intended.

The laws are now so stacked against men that it was only Shorten's prominence as Opposition Leader that made the police look at actual evidence. For the rest of us men, the mere accusation would destroy our life. This is exactly the point the author was getting at. Our rights have been so eroded that now the mere accusation destroys lives. We are not afforded the right of innocence until proven guilty.

Maybe both genders lie but it's not men who accuse women of rape from decades past so that the woman is labelled a criminal, her current relationship put under enormous pressure or destroyed, friends lost, thousands of dollars lost in legal fees and even time spent in jail.
All the power is in women's hands. And let's be honest here. When men feel aggrieved from a relationship breakdown, they are more likely to react physically. But if they hit their ex they will feel the full force of the law and community opprobrium. However, when women are aggrieved (not that a woman has ever felt aggrieved after a break-up!) they don't hit out but may make false accusations as revenge. The law fully supports them and offers no sanctions for false accusations. So maybe both genders lie but only one gender suffers.

I guess that is what feminists would call 'equality'.

Yet apparently we have a 'patriarchy'! Gutless men who allow themselves to be treated as a lot less than equal all in the name of equality.

Jay of Melbourne,

+1

Apparently at that Radfem website there are even women who advocate for the 'management' of the number of males in society.

I wonder where all these down trodden & battered women are.

As a kid I watched my father & my mates fathers come home, with unopened pay packets, [remember pay packets] give them to the wife, & have their "pocket money" handed back to them. I never saw any women with bruises.

Today I see many men who have little input into when to have, or how many kids, where to live, the choice of house or furniture, with perhaps the car being their only actual choice.

I do not see many men who object to this, they appear perfectly happy to let the little lady have most say in these things.

What I do find strange, after a breakup, mostly precipitated by the lady, these almost domineering ladies become desperate to find another man, if they don't already have one.

It is hard to understand these ladies who have run just about everything to do with a family appear to be unable to exist alone, but it is very common. It is even harder to understand the drop kick men that many of them attach themselves to, very quickly.

My feeling is that women have always needed strong men for protection, that it has become instinctual for them to gravitate to strong men today.

Ducks for cover.

Gee Dane, I don't know many of all these poor hard done by men in my community!
You must live amongst different men to the ones I know.

Having worked in many hospitals and as a community nurse over the years, maybe I have seen many other people in their own environment and after their personal 'arguments' than you have?
I see just as many downtrodden women as I do men.

For every woman who may have made up rape allegations, I wouldn't mind betting there are five who were raped and the man got away with it.
A woman who is raped has at least the same emotional trauma that a wrongful rape charge has on a man, if not more, so let's not be too quick to judge women as being the ones who cause all problems shall we?

There is no feminist 'conspiracy' out there to try and take the 'power' away from men in this very much still a man's world.
There is only paranoid men wanting even more power for themselves that push this bizarre notion...

Suseonline

I had to work on Saturday and Sunday (filling in).

I worked with about 12 other men, and most of these men have been working 80 hour weeks.

They have been working 12 to 13 hour days, 7 days a week for 2 months, and had another 3 months to go before the contract finishes.

I am wondering why there was no violence amongst the men.

According to feminist theory (or feminist propaganda), about 4 out of the 12 men should have been violent, but 4 were not violent, and in fact, 0 men were violent.

Considering what the men were doing, which was dirty and demanding work laying underground cable, and considering their very long work days with never any break, the men should have been at each others throats by now, but 0 men were.

So I am wondering why men suddenly turn into violent beings when they get home (according to feminist propaganda), but seem so placid at work?