MPs v the manosphere: ministers battle misogyny as they take a different message to men and boys across Australia

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'“Gender equality isn’t women versus men or a zero-sum game,” Ged Kearney says.

“It delivers better outcomes for everyone. It’s important that, as we engage with men and boys, we make that really clear.”

But as the assistant minister for the prevention of family violence sets off on a national listening tour with the special envoy for men’s health, Dan Repacholi, they are up against a pervasive and very different conception of how men and women relate, fostered by the loud voices of the manosphere and men’s rights activists.'

But what the activists want is not what Repacholi and Kearney are promoting.

Simon Copland, an expert in misogyny, extremism and male violence and an honorary fellow at the Australian National University, says those groups are tightly focused on the family courts and the idea that men are discriminated against.

They also consistently claim that women make false rape and domestic violence claims, he says.'