New Zealand may never be the same again. No, it’s not an update on the Prime Minister’s baby. The breaking news this morning;

The breaking news this morning; A 20 year old man is facing charges in relation to a Labour Youth Camp at Waihi. As the matter is now before the courts I’ll keep this post brief but it is available for comments. Copied from Stuff News: The arrest came after allegations the man sexually assaulted four teenagers, all […]

There is a ministry for every thing and everyone in this country. Even for sheep, cows and manure. I want to setup a party for men and boys. Or at least a ministry for men. How can we achieve that?

In what seems to be a recent development to increase the rate of conviction for men accused of sexual crimes, prosecutions are allowed to use innovative forms of ‘propensity evidence’. A couple of recent cases, ‘Auckland builder jailed for rape…’ and ‘West Auckland man jailed for sexual assault…’ have allowed complainants from previous acquittals to […]

You are warmly invited to join us at Kidz Need Dadz Conference 2018. We are discussing a subject that touches many in our community – Men and Relationships in 2018 – Te tangata me te whanaungatanga i roto i te 2018. Key Note Speakers: Chris Bowden Victoria University; Male Suicide, Risk, Relationships and Responses Children’s […]

Foetal Alcohol Syndrome became a recognisable problem and while this remains an issue for pregnant women we may be on the cusp of a much larger problem. These are issues that I don’t have any great understanding of so I’m writing generally about recently expressed concerns that prompt this post as I can see the […]

Is that possible? Could we reach a point where the anti-male hysteria drives a society, a whole country, especially a small country like New Zealand into the crisis zone? How many years ago did we start to raise issues like, Fatherlessness The possible effects on children How many issues saw no acknowledgement because

Dad does a runner This is a far more complicated story than what first appeared. I thought it was worth posting as it appears to include a blended family situation, parental leave issues, but also support issues for fathers. How would you have coped in this situation? Depressed women in my experience do the same […]

Hard to tell if she is acting or not. Anyway. Just wondered how on earth can Harvey get a fair trial with all shows and media interviews before a trial even begins. Rose Weinstein said at the end of the view. “We Win”. That part I agree she has won already. No need for a […]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it was JP who announced late last year that, “Some of us are getting a bit long in the tooth.” And there’re veterans here, 20-25 years that I can see – any 30 year voices still out there? Yesterday, somehow I found myself in the MENZ archives […]

I’m seeing the odd news flash on this but nothing substantial. It appears to be only in the trial stage but hey, having a spit in a jar has got to be less stressful than the fear of a hand on each shoulder … let’s pray for sucess on this one. Jokes aside, if you […]

Kirsty Johnston’s article directed at ‘toxic men’ was published by the NZ Herald but they’re unlikely to publish even a letter to the editor with a similar reference to women or any other group. Only for men is it considered acceptable to publish such hate speech against them. Ms Johnston’s vicious diatribe commenced with outlining […]

“The dirty ole bastard next door has got a young floozie living with him.” I just bit my tongue. Nice lady, older conservative, perhaps even a little embittered, and felt the need to express her moral outrage. That was a few years back now, when another friend starting his second family was getting married to […]

The young lady (Not her real name) was very up front about her history but proud of the length of time she had being (had been) drug free. “I’ve even had hair follicle tests to prove it, and I passed those too.” Telling me she really wanted to get her kids back, I asked

Professor Janice Fiamengo’s latest video exposes in her part of the world what we have frequently exposed in our part of the world: the devaluation of men and the favourable treatment of women including in the justice system. Evidence abounds, and on the very day Prof Fiamengo’s video was published there was an article in […]

We note that the Ministry for Women received an increase of 1.9% in this year’s budget.

Dame Denise L’Estrange-Corbet was given her title last year for ‘services to fashion’. It has since been discovered that her clothing company has been putting ‘Fabrique en Nouvelle-Zelande’ (‘Made in NZ’) tags on clothes that were made in Bangladesh. According to her reasoning, that should be all ok because the tags themselves were made in […]

This appears to currently be topical. Is it amongst the banter in the smoko rooms of our workplaces? Will Clarke rise above the Feminist soap opera – you know, the how we think it should be done? Have you been a stay-at-home Dad? “Mate, there’s nothing to it, you can work and look after the […]

Protest, suicide, despair, a message yet to be heard. I have no idea but if you know anything about this gruesome death please comment.

It’s an essential element in humanity, isn’t it? Most recognizable in New Zealand by … what’s your uh ha moment there? Perhaps the immortal words of, you know, that fellow that climbed Mt Everest. “We knocked the bugger off.” More recently this has been suceeded by a procession of …

Some of the old timers will be more familiar with the acronym COSA (casualties of sexual allegations) associated with the MENZ site. CASA (Clinical Advisory Service Aoteoroa) chief executive Dr Maree Inder;

I have not seen any comments about bias in this census on this site. Having seen this in the past I’m wondering if it is only because of the absence of a post. Here it is.

Many submissions to Governments are based along the lines of “I Want”. These submissions often fail to respect the reasonable interests of other affected parties. As a result, they tend to be less persuasive to politicians, when the consider making changes to Government policies. More persuasive submissions will be based on offering the politician a […]

Universal Periodic Review from NZ Human Rights Commission website This process allows NZ citizens and residents to make a complaint directly to UN. In other words, the NZ Government cannot suppress the complaint. Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights provides a more detailed summary about the UPR here.

Jacinda Adern is our 3rd female Prime Minister, however what is substantially different is the public inclusion of her partner (Clarke Gayford) by comparison to the husbands of her predecessors Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark. With the presence of social media it has been much easier for Gayford to put his political oar to the […]