Feminism's cash cow implodes

The latest twist in this week's excitement came with the release by Our Watch of a report card claiming that they have been successful in driving down domestic violence:

The national tracker from Our Watch, the national organisation for preventing violence against women and their children, found a significant 66% decline in women killed by men's violence over the past three decades, and a decline in the harmful attitudes that drive violence over the past 20 years.

Hmm, talk about a desperate strategy. The claim that Our Watch's primary prevention strategy has been successful in driving down incidents of domestic violence was obviously designed to ward off the critics. But it will really piss off the rest of the industry which relies on claims of an ever-growing epidemic of violence to keep raking in the government funding.

Plus, it was destined to get up the nose of the media who supports this feminist industry. It was most amusing hearing an interview with Patty Kinnersly on Radio National this week when the host, Patricia Karvelas, grilled Kinnersly through gritted teeth about how she could possibly claim decreased violence given the current epidemic of domestic homicides. Karvelas' irritation was very telling.

It's all hogwash, of course. The domestic violence industry is constantly manipulating the rates of domestic violence by moving the goal posts – expanding the definition of violence to include coercive control, for instance. Or making changes to family law which further incentivise false allegations. None of this does anything to protect genuine victims of violence, and certainly increases the risk of suicide for falsely accused men. Current policies are killing people, men and women.

As for Michael Salter…. when he's not throwing grenades into the domestic violence industry, he's recently been busy trying to clean up after another feminist meltdown. His good friend Grace Tame, sexual abuse victim and former Australian of the Year, has been forced to step down as CEO of her charitable foundation. The Australian cites "a donor backlash over its questionable governance and a half-hearted leadership style that left a scattered strategy and produced few tangible results for sexual abuse survivors."

Amazingly, Salter is the Grace Tame Foundation director, clearly someone who should have known that this charity was running off the rails. He has apparently been making it known around town that Tame will soon cease in the position and recruitment efforts will begin to identify a successor.

Our captive media is, as expected, ignoring this important story about the fall of this feminist icon. I remember years ago asking a well-known journalist why no one bothered to properly investigate Grace Tame's story. He laughed and said that to expose Tame would be like "killing Bambi." A career-ending move for any journalist.

But the good Professor Michael Salter certainly gets around. It turns out he is also on the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner where we find another prominent feminist, Julie Inman Grant, totally running amok.

The man seems to have a talent for getting involved with women who mean trouble. I'm tempted to suggest he might consider a new project - on toxic femininity.