The Demonisation of Men: A Classic Divide-and-Conquer Strategy by the Global Elite

The latest front in the culture war is impossible to miss. Public transport systems in Europe and parts of the US now feature official messaging that singles out men as a special category of threat: "Zero tolerance for male violence," signs warning women about potential harassers, and campaigns that treat ordinary masculinity as inherently toxic. As Thomas Harrington notes in The Daily Sceptic, this is not mere overreach in the name of safety. It is a calculated cultural strategy with a clear purpose.

Demonising Half the Population

No sensible person denies that sexual harassment and violence exist, or that men commit a disproportionate share of certain violent crimes. But the leap from "some men do bad things" to "men as a class are a latent threat to women" is ideological, not evidence-based. Governments and institutions would never dare put up equivalent signs about other immutable characteristics, yet men are fair game.

This messaging does real damage. It breeds suspicion and resentment between the sexes. Young women are taught to view men primarily as potential predators. Young men internalise the idea that their natural traits, assertiveness, physical strength, protectiveness, are suspect or "toxic." The result? More loneliness, fewer relationships, collapsing birth rates, and deepening social atomisation.

The Elite Divide-and-Conquer Playbook

This is not accidental. It fits perfectly into a long-standing elite strategy of divide and conquer:

Men vs Women: Turn natural complements into adversaries. Weaken the family unit, the strongest bulwark against centralised power.

Race, Class, and Identity: Keep groups at each other's throats so they never unite against the top.

Erosion of Trust: Destroy organic social bonds so the state and corporations become the only reliable authorities.

The globalist class, the ultra-wealthy, technocrats, and supranational institutions, benefits enormously from a fragmented, distrustful population. A society of isolated individuals is easier to manage, tax, surveil, and direct. Strong families and confident men, on the other hand, tend to produce resistance to top-down social engineering.

As Harrington points out, elites have long worried about male testosterone and the potential for physical pushback against unpopular policies. Better to pre-emptively neuter that threat culturally than risk real opposition later.

The Broader Pattern

This demonisation connects directly to the themes explored at this blog, this week:

Deconstruction of sex and gender: Biology is fluid until it's useful to portray men as inherently dangerous.

Epistemological crisis: Institutions push contested claims (on everything from gender to climate) with absolute moral certainty.

Depopulation and control: Lower birth rates, delayed families, and declining social trust all serve the "fewer useless eaters" agenda favoured in some elite circles.

Narrative control: AI moderation, speech laws, and public campaigns work together to make dissent from the official story socially radioactive.

The same machinery that labels concerned parents "domestic terrorists," climate sceptics "deniers," or data centre critics "anti-tech extremists" now brands normal masculinity as a public health hazard.

Bitter Fruit in Australia and the West

In Australia, we see the same trends; boys falling behind in education, men dropping out of university and the workforce, family courts skewed against fathers, and constant cultural messaging that traditional male roles are problematic. Meanwhile, elite-driven policies on energy, immigration, and economics make life harder for working families.

The result is a generation of disillusioned young men and increasingly wary young women, exactly the kind of fractured society that cannot mount serious resistance to further centralisation of power.

Time to Reject the Script

Men are not the enemy. Neither are women. The real threat comes from a small, self-appointed elite class that views ordinary people as problems to be managed. Demonising men is just the latest tool in their kit. The same guys pushing climate change as an alleged health threat.

A healthy society celebrates the strengths of both sexes and their complementarity. It does not wage cultural war on half its population. Recognising this divide-and-conquer tactic is the first step toward rejecting it.

The elites thrive on distrust. Our best response is to rebuild trust — between men and women, within families, and among communities — while firmly rejecting the narrative that paints masculinity itself as the problem.

https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/26/the-demonisation-of-men-and-everyone-else-too/