There were a lot of heroes in Sydney this week- all of them men.

What feminists and others who blather about “toxic masculinity” or how men can “do better”- whatever that means- fail to recognise is that in an emergency, it is men who get together to protect the community.

It is men who used what was at hand (a milk crate and a chair!) to arrest a deranged man and hold him until the police arrived.

It is usually men who run into burning houses to rescue neighbours and men who grab people out of burning cars.

Yes there are women in the police and fire services who do amazing jobs and are equally brave.

But when somebody goes off their head in a women’s safe space, you had better hope there is a man nearby.