In 2018, feminist and professor of sociology Suzanna Danuta Walters asked, ‘Why Can’t We Hate Men?’ in a piece for the Washington Post. This was a redundant question, because feminists such as Danuta Walters had already been hating men for a very long time and hardly needed permission from the sisterhood to start. But it served a purpose, which was to recruit more women into the toxic ecosphere of feminist misandry, whilst simultaneously driving a deep wedge between the sexes.

Danuta Walters would no doubt be delighted with the results of a recent poll commissioned by the New Statesman. It turns out that in 2026, not only can we hate men, but we are hating men like we have never hated them before. When I say ‘we’, I am referring to the whopping 75 per cent of British women under 25 who admitted to the pollsters that they find all men despicable. This is not good news for the 72 per cent of young men who said that they quite like their female counterparts and would like to start families with them one day.

Unfortunately, the hatred does not end there. The young women also hate their country because it is racist and sexist, as well as hating capitalism, which they are unable to distinguish from fascism. They hate Keir Starmer, and of course Donald Trump. They hate Reform, fearing that it will force them to adopt ‘family values’, such as getting married and bringing children into the world. What don’t they hate, I hear you ask. They don’t hate communism. In fact, they are quite keen on it, which explains why they are flocking to the Greens in droves.

This is profoundly distressing on so many levels. But this was completely lost on the women from the New Statesman and the polling company in their discussion of the findings, framing them as ‘fascinating’ and ‘interesting’, which only underscores the seriousness of the issue. Also completely lost on them is how it is that an entire generation of women has been demoralised and transformed into rage-filled human beings.

But anyone with a cursory knowledge of the education system in Australia and the UK will know that they have been brainwashed by their teachers and lecturers over many years with a range of demented theories about race, sex, the planet, the nation and our history. One of these is the idea of ‘toxic masculinity’, which demonises all straight white males as oppressors, regardless of their individual behaviour.

War, it seems, has been declared on boys, using the language and objectives of intersectional feminism – the ‘patriarchy’, ‘toxic masculinity’, and the ‘manosphere’. These ideas are being foisted on your children and grandchildren without their consent through seemingly benign sounding programs such as ‘Respectful Relationships’ or ‘Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships’, which purport to be about building healthy relationships, matters of consent, and the prevention of domestic violence.

They are sold to parents as a critical part of their children’s upbringing, which will teach them to live in a society where everyone is included and accepted, no matter their skin colour or sexual proclivities. It is often touted, not unreasonably, as a means by which schools will become fair and welcoming for all. And while there are some minor inconsistencies, such as being told to celebrate uniqueness whilst simultaneously insisting everyone is fundamentally the same, or that we must be both colour-blind and colour-conscious at the same time, these are unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

In the UK, schoolchildren are introduced to its ‘Misogyny Resource’, circulated to schools. Content includes the ‘Pyramid of Sexual Violence’, at the base of which sit, among attitudes and beliefs, ‘locker room banter’, ‘strict gender roles’, ‘objectification’, ‘bragging’, and the familiar saying, ‘boys will be boys’. According to the Pyramid, these cultural attitudes inevitably lead upward, through sexual harassment and assault, toward the apex: gang rape, femicide, and finally genocide. In this worldview, casual teenage banter and centuries-old social norms are no longer harmless fun; they are the seeds of mass violence.

In Australia, educators believe that they have solved the problem of ‘toxic masculinity’ altogether. Men should just stop being men. This is according to Our Watch, a government-funded Australian organisation tasked with preventing violence against women, which develops and promotes these educational frameworks. Our Watch believes that all it will take is teachers providing ‘opportunities for men and boys to explore and reflect upon their personal male privilege and power’, and for society to ‘move away from a binary notion of gender and invite men to loosen their attachments to notions of masculinity altogether’. But do not fear: ‘These approaches need to be thought of as mutually exclusive. Beginning with a focus on freedom from unhealthy masculine stereotypes can support a process of disruption that eventually moves away from binary notions of gender in the long term.’ It sounds as if Our Watch wants us all to be genderless cogs in a machine, which is starting to come across as a very dystopian post-human future.

In the meantime, Western governments are encouraging organisations such as Our Watch to smuggle queer theory, radical gender theory, intersectional feminism and the idea of ‘toxic masculinity’ into schools, even though they will strenuously deny that it is happening. Or, when faced with insurmountable evidence to the contrary, they will pivot and say, yes, it is happening, but it is a necessary part of a child’s education.

In Victoria, the Allan government has taken to gaslighting the public by claiming on its website that gender theory in the curriculum is a myth invented by right-wing conspiracy theorists. To suggest otherwise marks one out as a tin-foil-hat-wearing crackpot. But if telling boys that their very essence, their maleness, is problematic or informing small children that there is no such thing as little boy or little girl, or deliberately confusing them about their own biological sex, then this is both a title and a hat I will wear with pride.