The Liberal/National Coalition just won an "unwinnable" election in Australia against a 'sure thing' Labor Party. Polls not reflecting the vote, like for Trump. Labor got 11 out of 12, from the Women's Electoral Lobby, while the Coalition got 1 out of 12. How one major party is over 90% "worse" to women than another in an open, Western, liberal democracy is beyond my understanding. Maybe because the Coalition failed to pass law to routinely castrate all men who kissed their first dates badly and refused to pay 100% for their dinner at a decent restaurant.

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I think the problem - for hatred motivated feminists, not for, you know, unimportant things like total human welfare - is potentially less women are taking their voting cues from the Man Harming Lobby (oops, I mean the Women's Electoral Lobby). This might be because they are rich, fully employed, spoilt creatures who can sleep with whoever they want, marry whoever they want, divorce and remarry whoever they want, abort whoever they want, and get vast sums of public money showered at their causes, and get vast numbers of valuable jobs reserved for them. Maybe, just maybe, at this one election, women weren't thinking primarily through a gender lens.

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And maybe men were. I'd be very interested to look at the gender voting breakdown, now, just maybe, maybe, it's possible for a left-of-centre party to lose votes elections by alienating the male vote. When Scott Morrison, returned Coalition leader and Prime Minister, said this

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“We want to see women rise. But we don’t want to see women rise only on the basis of others doing worse.”

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On women's day, I took note. Was he signaling male voters? Was this man - attacked for his Christian faith by an overconfident opponent who should never have opened the can of worms - sensing something we haven't really seen? That you can lose elections by losing the male vote, and so he signalled to men?

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I think there is a good chance the answer is, yes. But first the bad news. If this is so, all it does is slow the continued asset-stripping of men's rights, and the slow the continued disenfranchisement of men in family, private, and political life. It means, I think, the number of the numerous mechanisms that can and are used to harm men will increase more slowly.

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Still, better than fucking Labor.