Post -Modern Feminism Claims and Objectives:

WHEN FEMINISM BECOMES THE VERY THING IT CLAIMS TO OPPOSE

Feminism achieved important victories for women: voting rights, property ownership, educational opportunities, workplace participation and legal equality. These achievements deserve recognition.

But parts of contemporary feminism have drifted far from those principles. In Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, some influential strands of feminist activism have become increasingly ideological, intolerant, discriminatory and openly hostile towards men and boys.

It's time to challenge the double standards.

1. Misandry masquerading as empowerment. Casual contempt for men, collective accusations of misogyny, and slogans such as "men are trash" have become acceptable in some circles. Replace "men" with "women" and the prejudice becomes obvious. Sexism doesn't become virtuous when directed at males.

2. Demonising masculinity. Boys are increasingly exposed to narratives portraying masculinity as toxic, dangerous or inherently oppressive. Traditional masculine virtues (courage, strength, protectiveness, resilience and responsibility) deserve celebration, not suspicion. Boys need encouragement and positive role models, not collective guilt.

3. Institutionalised double standards. Governments enthusiastically fund women's advancement while serious male disadvantages in suicide, education, homelessness, workplace deaths and criminal justice receive inadequate attention. Equality institutions cannot credibly champion one sex while neglecting the other.

4. Ideology masquerading as science. Some gender research begins with patriarchy as the explanation and works backwards. Biological differences, evolutionary psychology and competing hypotheses are dismissed when inconvenient. The controversial "Man Box" framework exemplifies concerns about deficit-based interpretations of masculinity. Research should investigate reality, not manufacture ideological confirmation.

5. Abandoning boys in education. Boys lag in literacy and educational completion across much of the English-speaking world. Yet gender equity initiatives frequently remain overwhelmingly female-focused. Where is the urgency about boys falling behind?

6. Marginalising male victims. Domestic and sexual violence are too often framed through simplistic male-perpetrator/female-victim myths. Women experience serious and disproportionate harms in certain categories, but male victims and female perpetrators are also common. Every victim deserves recognition, protection and support.

7. Sacrificing due process. The excesses of "believe women" activism have sometimes encouraged institutions to treat accusations as convictions. Supporting complainants must never mean abandoning impartial investigations, procedural fairness or the rights of the accused.

8. Undermining fathers. Cultural assumptions that mothers are naturally superior parents have marginalised fathers, including after separation. Children benefit from the loving involvement of both biological parents. Fathers are not disposable accessories to family life.

9. Silencing dissent. Researchers, journalists and advocates who question feminist orthodoxies can face vilification, intimidation and professional pressure. Disagreement is not hatred. Intellectual freedom matters more than ideological conformity.

10. Turning equality into female preference. Quotas, preferential programmes and selective advocacy can transform equal opportunity into unequal treatment. Genuine fairness requires examining disadvantage, individual merit and proportionality; not automatically privileging one sex.

These problems do not characterise every feminist, nor does feminism explain every disadvantage facing males.

But a movement cannot claim the moral authority of equality while tolerating prejudice, selective compassion and institutional unfairness.

We need male-positive psychology, evidence-based policy, stronger families, equal justice and institutions accountable to everyone.

Women and girls deserve dignity, opportunity and protection.

So do men and boys.

Equality is not a female entitlement. It is a universal human principle.

#GenderEquality #MensRights #MalePsychology #BoysMatter #Fatherhood #EqualityForAll #MutualRespect

 

 

by Celebrating Masculinity:

  

(from Digital Anvil) 

Discernment:

Discernment - The Difference Between Right and Almost Right Have you noticed that choosing what is right is often not very easy? We tend to be surprised about this, but we shouldn't be. The problem is that we think the choice is between right and wrong. If only it were that easy. Years ago the great English preacher C H Spurgeon said, "Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right." The problem for us is that what ends up being wrong can look right, feel right and seem right, but be wrong. It's why we need wise and trusted friends, and especially God's Word, to help us find the boundaries.   Share this daily -reading. My particular thanks to Karl Faase. ( from Digital Anvil )

Big Sister ( to Big Brother ): 1984 in 2026:

BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU:

ORWELL’S 1984 COMES TO AUSTRALIA IN 2026

George Orwell warned us about a society where government controls information, monitors citizens, manipulates language and decides which ideas are acceptable.

Seventy-seven years after 1984 was published, Australia is heading in a deeply troubling direction.

Except our version of Big Brother would be called BIG SISTER.

Consider the extraordinary concentration of power exercised by Anika Wells, Michelle Rowland, Tanya Plibersek, Ged Kearney, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant and others across government.

Look at the direction of travel:

🔴 THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Labor attempted to legislate against “misinformation”. That bill failed, but the ambition to regulate online information continues.

🔴 THE THOUGHT POLICE: The proposed Digital Duty of Care regime would pressure platforms to anticipate and mitigate broadly defined harms. Who decides which opinions are harmful? Big Sister, of course.

🔴 BIG SISTER’S SECRET AGENTS: Proposed powers for eSafety to use fictitious online identities, including AI-generated material, raise disturbing questions about covert monitoring and accountability.

🔴 THE MEMORY HOLE: Content removal, algorithmic suppression and search restrictions can make inconvenient information disappear from public view.

🔴 THE TELESCREEN: Age verification, digital monitoring and compulsory information-gathering increasingly threaten the anonymity Australians once enjoyed online.

🔴 THE MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA: The ABC and SBS receive billions in public funding, while Labor is expanding subsidies for commercial journalism. How independent can our information ecosystem remain when government increasingly finances it?

🔴 NEWSPEAK AND DOUBLETHINK: Censorship becomes “safety”. Monitoring becomes “protection”. Restrictions become “duty of care”. Ideological conformity becomes “inclusion”. And questioning government-approved narratives risks being labelled “harmful”.

Here is the fundamental transformation:

Australia is moving from regulating specific unlawful online acts toward regulating the CONDITIONS under which information is made available, recommended, encountered and assessed for potential harm...

The information-control architecture is being transformed from punishing unlawful acts toward proactively managing the information environment, using regulatory powers, financial incentives, technological monitoring and ever-expanding definitions of harm.

That's an extraordinary shift in power from citizens to the state. And Big Sister wants to take us there.

Australia is not yet Orwell's Oceania. We retain elections, independent courts and the freedom to challenge government.

But the direction of travel is unmistakably concerning...

The danger isn't merely what today's politicians intend. It's the machinery of information control they're building for tomorrow's governments.

Freedom isn't something that governments generously grant us. It is something citizens must defend against government overreach.

Orwell wrote 1984 as a WARNING.

Australia must not turn it into an instruction manual.

#1984 #GeorgeOrwell #BigSister #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Australia #eSafety #CivilLiberties

 

by Unnamed Contributor. 

 

(from Digital Anvil ) 

Always do a Good Job

“The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.” Genesis 2:15 NCV

 

The first thing God did when He made Adam was put him to work. That’s because work gives us a sense of purpose, meaning, and dignity. “God put the man in the garden…to…work it.” So Adam was a gardener.

But whether you count cash in a bank, trade on the stock market, flip burgers at a takeaway shop, whip up pasta specials at a five-star restaurant, fell giant timber in the forest, or split and deliver firewood, coach a team, pastor a congregation, publish bestselling books, deliver newspapers in the early morning hours, star in your own television show, farm a large acreage, mow and edge neighbourhood lawns, go out on the road as a salesperson for computers, drive a truck loaded with machinery, build homes, clean swimming pools, argue cases before a judge, or settle family disputes as a counsellor, always do a good job. 

A wise man once said: “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.” The biblical character Daniel did that. And like cream, he rose to the top in Babylon. “Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3 KJV). No task is insignificant when doing it faithfully for the Lord. 

 

The Bible says: “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper” (Proverbs 13:4 NLT). So always do a good job.

SoulFood: 1 Cor 1–3 Mark 14:53–65 Ps 34:1–10 Pro 

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( from Digital Anvil )

Honour GOD in your Home:

Honour God in your home

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 NKJV

Consider the story of a carpenter named Joe who worked for a building contractor. One day, the contractor said to him, “Joe, I’m putting you in charge of the next house we build. I want you to order the materials and oversee the job.” Joe accepted the assignment with great enthusiasm. He studied the blueprints and checked every measurement and specification.

Then he had a thought: “If I’m really in charge, why couldn’t I cut a few corners, use less expensive materials, and put the extra money in my pocket? Who will know? Once the house is painted, it will look great.” 

So Joe ordered second-grade lumber and inexpensive concrete, put in cheap wiring, and cut every corner he could. When the home was finished, the contractor came to see it. “What a fine job you have done!” he said. “You have been faithful to me all these years, and I have decided to show you my gratitude by giving you this house that you just built as a gift.”

 Night after night, as Joe lay in bed listening to the roof leaking and the floor creaking, the message came through loud and clear: The house you built is the house you will live in! Are you short-changing your spouse and your family in love, time, example, and instruction? The choices you make today will shape the home you live in tomorrow. 

And depending on time and opportunity, you may or may not have a chance to undo it. So make this your prayer: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

SoulFood: Exo 36–38 John 5:16–30 Ps 41 Pro 27:7–9

My gratitude to Vision.org.au

( from Digital Anvil )

Number of Teen Girls Identifying as LGBT Plummets Suddenly:

The number of teen girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual has plunged rapidly over the last four years.

According to new data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a whopping 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual in 2021. By 2025, that figure had fallen to 17 percent.

Those identifying as bisexual alone fell by half -- from 26 percent to 13 percent. 

While researchers agree the statistics show a significant downward turn, they emphasize that the exact causes of the decline remain unclear.

However, plenty of speculation has begun. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, wrote on X, "Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID."

Glenn Stanton, the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, spoke to CBN News about this sudden shift away from LGBT identities. 

He believes the dramatic decline is a natural correction following an artificial spike in these identities, arguing that these sexual labels are often adopted for social or experimental reasons rather than being inherent truths. 

He states, "LGBT and T and all those things are not really things. They're sociopolitical identities that young people seem to identify with because it's the hip thing to do or because they want to be experimental or because they're confused about who they are." 

When it comes to the binary nature of sexuality, Stanton highlights what he sees as hypocrisy within the LGBTQ agenda, noting that the "LGB" identities rely on a sexual binary that newer transgender or queer concepts have rejected. 

He explains, "The LGBTQ community is not really a community... The letters fight with one another like crazy... LGB... are fundamentally binary." 

He says the recent 180-degree shift in teen identities exposes the truth behind all the political rhetoric. "You can take a beach ball and push it under the water and say it belongs under the water, but it needs pressure to keep it down there. What we're seeing in culture today is that pressure cannot sustain itself. That beach ball is coming back up."  

Stanton concludes that this is a chance for Christian believers to focus on sharing the biblical worldview, which is a "more beautiful and true story about male and female and about the beauty of men,women and boys and girls.

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(from Digital Anvil )