Fiendish feminists' suicide gotcha

• Ongoing monitoring and oversight — Once flagged, you are now officially “in view.” Your mental health crisis is logged, tracked, and monitored across the system.

• Contributing to accountability — Formal risk assessment, mandatory documentation of your behaviours, and coordinated responses are designed to make it much harder for you to minimise, deny, or continue any alleged violence.

• System-wide responsibility — Every relevant organisation, including mental health services, alcohol/drug services, and crisis lines, now have a duty to keep you “in view.”

• Information Sharing — Your confidential discussions about suicide, depression, or relationship breakdown can be legally shared, without your consent, with other authorised services, including specialist Men’s Behaviour Change Programs.

• Accountability-focused referrals — You’ll likely be referred to a perpetrator intervention program, even while you’re still in acute suicidal crisis.

• Protecting victims and children — The overriding priority becomes ensuring any current or former partner and children are protected from you, the man at risk of ending his own life.

Isn’t that just extraordinary? This draconian system has been proudly in place in Victoria for five years now and received zero scrutiny – such is public interest in the fate of men, even suicidal men.

Zealots in our health services have proved all too keen to follow this advice and presume that suicidal men are perpetrators of violence.

I talked last week to a man who sought help from a mental health service in Dandenong, Victoria. The suicidal man had lost contact with his children despite the Victorian police having charged his partner with two counts of assault against him.

I’ve seen the desperate text messages he wrote to the service, complaining about his treatment. “One of the health workers kept pushing me asking if I’d ever hit a woman, saying, ‘You must have done something, you must have hit her.’ She went on and on, informing me that this was the first step to getting better by acknowledging the truth, even after I had shown them the mother’s charge sheet from Victorian Police.”

The health worker pushed so hard it turned into a loud verbal argument lasting over 15 minutes. “I ended up walking away in tears. This left me more suicidal than when I had started using their services almost a year earlier,” the shattered man explained.

Massaging the statistics.

The policies are in place and already adding to the burden of men in crisis. But what data supports this mighty feminist edifice? Surely, we must question this assumed link between suicide and domestic violence and seek out the research basis for that vital connection.

That’s where the plot thickens…..

Almost a year ago, I exposed misleading research from the Australian Institute of Family Studies which claimed one in three men reported being violent towards their partners. Somehow the Institute forgot to mention in their report on this Ten to Men study that almost a third (30.9%) of the men surveyed were victims of similar violence, which included both physical and emotional abuse. AIFS’s reported data excluded all the men who were victims but not perpetrators of violence – a total of 355 forgotten survivors.

Almost 100K viewers enjoyed our video of Senator Malcolm Roberts grilling the squirming AIFS researchers about this oversight.