This is a question Ayaan Hirsi Ali urgently puts to the people whose ancestors – Europe’s Germanic tribes – created the modern world. She is worried it hasn’t. She’s worried the West is surrendering to its ideological and uncivilised enemies.
The treatment by feminists and their gutless male supporters of an 85-year-old man for a comment that was unexceptionable for centuries – even for time out of mind – demonstrates a society in steep decline.
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Janice Fiamengo, May 15, 2026
The story is now a common one: an older man disgraced and punished for a “sexist” offence. In an instant, his reputation is shattered. Previously respected in his work, he becomes a target of contempt and hatred. Few defend him in his hour of need, and abundant sympathy is expressed for his alleged victim(s), whose harms are often imaginary.
Last weekend, it was Canadian hockey scout Terry Bonner who was put in the stocks. Bonner is the head scout for the Vancouver Giants, a Canadian junior hockey team that is part of the Western Hockey League, with 23 member clubs that develop talent for the National Hockey League.
Bonner is 85 years old, with over two decades with the Giants. His offence was to tell a pretty young female reporter, Cami Kepke, that she was good-looking. His exact words were (as seen in the clip here, which has now been viewed over 2.5 million times), “Well thank you very much, you good-lookin’ girl.” After that, he chuckled and sat back in his chair, whether in embarrassment or satisfaction it was hard to say, and continued with his answer.
For that moment of indiscretion during an interview—Kepke was congratulating him on the Giants’ third-round draft pick and asking what the player in question, Eli Vickers, would bring to the team—The Giants have been fined $5000 by the Canadian Hockey League for “conduct detrimental to the League.” Meanwhile, unctuous apologies, statements of feminist rectitude, and exultant finger-pointing have broken out all around Bonner. This moment of humiliation may well be Bonner’s last public appearance.
Female psychopaths use ‘Believe all women’ to target men
Bettina Arndt, May 15, 2026
The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic – inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture, and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible, and less than a real man.
Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame, and the yoke comes off.
Forty years on, the yoke has disappeared. In April 2026, the American male labour force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. One in three American men — roughly 33% — were not working or actively looking for work. The overall male participation rate for men aged 16 and over stood at just 67%, down from 73.5% two decades ago and from 87% in the postwar years when Ehrenreich’s story begins.
The trend is not confined to America. Australian men’s workforce participation has fallen from around 79% in 1978 to approximately 71% today (see below), while similar declines — though less dramatic than in the United States — have occurred in the UK and Canada.
I made this comment on the video below:
Helen Lewis knows how to articulate her point of view and, mercifully, she did not indulge in a feminist rant to highlight the dangers of ‘masculinism’ – typically the sort of coloured word the left spin to support their leftist views. She gives an interesting update or ‘state of the nation’ address on men and masculinity, a lot of it very true from my masculine perspective. But what she also does, as most feminist commentators do, is focus on the extreme elements and personalities in the rising fightback by men against an out-of-control feminism.
Feminists don’t know where to stop. Women are now in the majority of university enrolments, and in such professions as the law and medicine. Feminists have no trouble in accepting their favoured positions while going in boots and all in areas which men are naturally attracted to – the STEM field. They are blase about formulating strategies to favour women and discriminate against men by enforced quotas.
These are issues raised by Helen Andrews and Janice Fiamengo. Ms Lewis has ignored them and their objections. It is a logical conclusion that if women refuse to have children, the society, even the nation, in which they live will break down.
According to Janice Fiamengo, the evidence shows that women destroy civilisations because their decisions are driven by emotion. They are not able to take the decisions and measures that reason dictates. Indeed, most teenage boys notice that inclination as soon as they start to mix with girls. The bad news for Helen Lewis is that the repeal of women’s suffrage is logically necessary to avert our democratic society’s collapse. The bad news for men is that the will seems no longer there for most men to take that action. Incidentally, Helen Lewis, what percentage of Atlantic’s reporting staff is female?
Tell Pauline Hanson that you will vote for One Nation if she and her party reform the Human Rights Commission (sack the people there) and repeal the legislation that allows men to indiscriminately invade women’s spaces – including toilets, locker rooms and bathrooms.
Australia’s dominant political class needs to have huge doses of electric shock therapy.
The TEAL record is there. It’s a woke, full-left party, left of Labor, and similar to the Greens. Their campaign modus operandi is the same in each contested seat. They, overwhelmingly female, swarm the electorate in T-shirts with their disguised deep woke agenda. They bus in female swarmers from all around the continent.
The distinguishing feature, however, of the TEALs is their man-hating feminist agenda. It’s no accident that all TEALs are women, except for David Pocock (you’ve got to wonder what happened to that bruising Rugby player).
Female quotas, female empowerment, identity issues, gender inequity, and warping the judicial system against men are foremost in their agenda.
If you are a man and you vote for a TEAL, like the disguised independent in Farrer, you’re voting against yourself. It comes back to what I have said consistently on this blog. Most men are unaware of the extent of man-hatred in our society, particularly in our institutions.
Here’s a change – a young woman (looks like a Gen-Zeder) mocking those women who are unaware of the rampant man-hatred across the internet, and thus across society.
This typically spiteful girl is clearly unaware that she has a use-by date of ten years – fifteen if she’s lucky. There’ll be no more trading on her looks and youth then.