At last, after years of setbacks, it’s once again a great time to be a man. We have survived the worst excesses of feminism, and we are now staging a comeback. 

It had become obvious to everyone that things had gone too far and, in some contexts, far too far.  Not only had men lost many historic and established rights, but women were encouraged to think that their rights mattered more. 

Not only did wives and partners insist that they had equal rights in a relationship or a family, but daughters also began to believe they were as important as sons.  Crazy, I know, but there’s no accounting for some people.

This craziness had become widespread. In government and parliament, in law and in business, in universities and research, in sports, aviation and the media, women were insisting on equal rights and treatment despite the obvious limitations and dangers of this.

Most shocking of all, feminism had infested the army and the police undermining two of society’s most important enforcement structures, making them weaker and more vulnerable.

Many countries had been seduced/blackmailed/forced into clearly woke ideas of equality, thinking that their national well-being somehow depended on the status of women. Again, crazy.

International structures such as the UN and the EU had become obsessed with measuring and reporting on women’s rights, effectively relegating men’s rights to an afterthought.  When did we ever hear either institution asking, “What about men’s rights”?

UN organisations such as UNwomen were mandated to report only on women’s rights, ignoring those of men. International conference after conference brought together women from all over the world to lobby for yet more rights.

And what about UNmen?  No sign of that anytime soon.

Women had come to believe that they were entitled to rights, even if they had not earned them. And this was accompanied by the equally mad idea that there is such as thing as “women specific rights”. 

Everywhere, men and men’s rights came under attack (even by women-colluding men).  Traditional characteristics of masculinity and specifically male values were undermined, even derided.

There were even hotbeds of “crazed feminism”, such as the World Economic Forum, that argued that equality for women is, on the basis of current trends, 123 years away.  And this even though it is patently obvious that women now have more rights than men. How strange.

But now the fightback is underway.  Across politics, media, business and popular culture, a new wave of male leadership is reclaiming lost ground.  Men who know what it means to be a “man’s man” are finally emerging.  An obvious leading example is the leadership and vision offered by business tycoons such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel.

Not only are they powerful, but they are also promoting a new business code which rejects the “feminisation of the workplace” and instead nurtures proper individualism and competition, aggressive business strategies and strong male-led self-belief and certainty.    

That new leadership is also best exemplified by US Secretary of War (the title alone speaks strength) Pete Hegseth. Straight-talking, confident and precise, visionary and, above all, so manly and inspiring (including the jaw, the hair and the sharp suit).

And the way he proclaims the laser-focused operation Epic Fury.  So, so manly.

A role model for all aspiring young men, nothing namby-pamby there. In a word, awesome.  Trump and Vance just don’t have it, do they?

And despite woke attempts to “feminise” education, a recent multi-country survey of 23,000 people found that 31% of men born between 1997 and 2012 agreed that a wife should always obey her husband, with 33% saying a husband should have the final word on important decisions. 

A glimpse into the proper order of things!

Common sense is prevailing despite 115 years of International Women’s Days and spurious claims of sexism, misogyny and discrimination. 

It’s clearly time for International Men’s Day.

It’s time to man up; time to put the man back in the manosphere and, as Donald Trump would tweet: TIME TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE.