If you’re ready for a hilarious and engaging listen this weekend, start with Pod Like A Girl’s breakdown of the charity fails by “The Better Blokes” podcast.

You can listen to Pod Like A Girl on all the podcast apps, or visit the website to listen to it there:

Pod Like a Girl: 07. Why are the Australian podcast bros crashing out? With Rach McQueen

Or you can watch this important conversation with video on YouTube:

Or you can even download the mp3 file to listen to it another way.

Full disclosure, it’s not just amazing, it’s also enraging, but only because we’re talking about the unashamed misogyny and idiocy of these two man childs.

And Rach and Mia are absolutely the right women for the job, because they’re intelligent and informed.

They’ve also spent years advocating to eliminate misogyny, sexism, and violence from Australia’s culture – and advocating for victims of this misogyny, which we know also harms men themselves.

The men who are going to The Better Blokes project for advice are more likely to be harmed, not helped, by what these blokes are spouting.

It’s the Aussie brand of the Andrew Tate manosphere, where men are encouraged to be a real man, and women are NOT welcome.

Like their videos telling women to “shut the f*** up” and let men speak (direct quote). 🤢 🤮

Which is a problem, because their governing legal documents, their charity charter, says they exist to improve men’s mental health… Not to indoctrinate men with misogyny and encourage violence against women, non-binary people, and even kids.

So are they actually helping men’s mental health?

Let’s see…

No – they can’t.

Because they don’t even believe the evidence about what causes men’s mental health.

They blame men’s mental health issues almost entirely on women, and women rejecting them in relationships.

They recommend drinking alcohol as a way to emotionally regulate and to feel comfortable “hanging out with your people”. 😳 But the research shows that driving alcohol is directly linked to suicide attempts. 😬

They even believe crying or showing any emotion is gay and wussy. See their videos; they literally say they are embarrassed when other men show emotion.

Listen to the podcast to hear more about that. I’m tired.

So when this is happening at the same time as an epidemic of gendered violence in Australia, it’s vitally important to deal with it like it really is.

This is illegal hate speech that is designed to offend or humiliate women, and to promote violence and control by men against women.

Perhaps the young men who stalked and harassed Jordan Tan, and then defamed her publicly, were learning from these “Better Blokes”…?

(For a laugh, check out the many videos on tiktok to see how Jack Macintosh outed himself for what sounds suspiciously like sexual assault and other violent offences, when Jordan Tan hadn’t even named the men who were harassing her.)

And thank you to some of the only men I’ve seen standing up to these “Better” losers alongside women, like this guy on tiktok.

Now that’s what a “better bloke” actually sounds like.

Sending love and power to Pod Like A Girl and all the women and non-binary people mentioned in this post! ❤️