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International Men’s Day 2026 champions “The Future Is Everyone,” calling men and women to reject division, restore complementarity, and rebuild strong families for the flourishing of society.

As Dads4Kids cofounder, my father Warwick Marsh, announced last week, the theme for this year’s International Men’s Day (19 November 2026) is The Future Is Everyone.

Dad and I were thrilled to be joined by our dear friends David Maywald, author of The Relentless War on Masculinity, and Lisa Britton, journalist and advocate for men and boys, on a video call to announce the theme. Watch it below:

As Lisa says, “Since the dawn of time, men and women have worked together to not only survive but to thrive. Lately, over the past several decades, we have lifted women and girls up, which is great … and we need to continue doing that, but in our zeal to empower girls and women, we’ve left boys and men behind.” I couldn’t agree more. In the video, she explains that instead of working together, men and women have almost become rivals, which helps no one.

I remember, many years ago, seeing the feminist slogan “the future is female”. Like most effective lies, it’s based on a half-truth, and researching its origins only confirmed my uneasiness with such a misleading catchphrase. I won’t bore you with sordid feminist history, but the colourful Milo Yiannopoulos said it best in 2016 when he declared, “Feminism is cancer.”

Restoring the Balance Between Men and Women

Thankfully, people are waking up to the divisiveness pervading our culture, and I’m so grateful for brave people like Lisa Britton and David Maywald who are standing up and speaking out. The comprehensive sentiment of The Future is Everyone is something we can all get behind.

Another brave man, Bryan Ward, founder of Third Way Man, paints a picture of where we’re at in the so-called battle of the sexes:

For thousands of years, our species functioned as two collective interlocking magnets, bonded by the fully embraced, fully lived differences between men and women.

This polarity was the psycho-sexual glue that kept our species intact.

When the fringe contingent coopted feminism and weaponised it against us, men began to shed all their old, offending qualities to appease and deflect, casting off their power, and strength, and will, to the point of self-emasculation.

In so doing, the primal polarity between the sexes was lost.

The once-strong core of husband/wife connection, attraction, and chemistry hollowed out.

Ward is spot on, and as he writes, human flourishing depends on the husband/wife connection being re-established and strengthened. This is something I often think about, as buttressing traditional marriage has been, and will continue to be, a key component of Dads4Kids’ work.

The challenges that Australia and many other Western nations face are spiritual, cultural, and political in nature, but ultimately, it’s up to each one of us to become the change that is needed. Though many holding positions of power within the spheres of government, education, the media and arts/entertainment are yet to admit it, the feminist project seems to be running out of puff.

The very future of humanity depends on us, men and women together, recognising our complementarities, burying the proverbial hatchet, and learning to love again.

Lovework

This week, leading up to International Women’s Day on 8^th March, watch, like and share the Future is Everyone video with, well, everyone! As dads, we have a critical role to play, leading our families in love and showing the world that the future is indeed everyone.

Yours for everyone,
Nathaniel Marsh

P.S. The tide is turning, but there’s still so much more to do! If you’re encouraged by the work of Dads4Kids and can support our vision to help fathers be the best they can be for their children, please consider making a tax-deductible donation here.

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Republished with thanks to Dads4Kids. Image courtesy of Adobe.