Gen Z Gender Gap: Young Men and Women Don't Agree on Politics - Business Insider - "After speaking with more than 20 Gen Zers, my colleagues at the Survey Center on American Life and I found that among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement... while women were rallying together, many Gen Z men began to feel like society was turning against them. As recently as 2019, less than one-third of young men said that they faced discrimination, according to Pew, but today, close to half of young men believe they face at least some discrimination. In a 2020 survey by the research organization PRRI, half of men agreed with the statement: "These days society seems to punish men just for acting like men."... The #MeToo movement established a sense of solidarity among young women. A survey conducted in 2022 found that two-thirds of young women believe that in most or in every way, what happens to women in the US will have a bearing on their own lives — an idea known as "linked fate" in sociology. But this sentiment was not shared by older women: Only 36% of women older than 65 said the same. This bond has bled into Gen Z women's politics, especially around issues like abortion. A survey we conducted after Roe v. Wade was overturned and just before the 2022 midterms found that no issue mattered more for young women than abortion: 61% said it was a critical concern, while only 32% of young men said the same. In the 2022 midterm elections, all young voters strongly supported Democratic candidates, but young women demonstrated much greater support than men... More than seven in 10 young women said that the lack of female representation in political office is because women are held to higher standards than men. This newfound solidarity among women is also showing up in the workplace. For decades a strong majority of men and women alike had reported a clear preference for a male boss. But the percentage of women who said they preferred a male boss plummeted 12 points between 2014 and 2017. By that year, the year of the most recent polling, a majority of women reported preferring a female boss for the first time. At the same time, women's dissatisfaction with the status quo has only intensified. In 2016, 61% of women said they were satisfied with the way women are treated in American society, according to a Gallup survey. Today, that has dropped to 44%. As women's political priorities have solidified, young men's priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them. A survey we conducted last year found that young women expressed statistically significant greater concern for 11 out of 15 different issues, including drug addiction, crime, climate change, and gun violence. There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women. Young men are also unhappy. For a growing number, feminism has less to do with promoting gender equality and more to do with simply attacking men. A 2022 survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that 46% of Democratic men under 50 agreed that feminism has done more harm than good — even more Republican men agreed. In our recent poll, roughly one in four male Gen Zers said they have experienced more gender discrimination than older men. And less than half of Gen Z men identified as feminists, with only half saying they support the #MeToo movement, compared to 72% of women... The lack of interest could be because Gen Z men have their own issues. Richard Reeves, the founder of the American Institute for Boys and Men, has meticulously documented the challenges facing young men in America: They are struggling more in school, are less likely than women to go to and graduate from college, have fewer close friends than previous generations, and are four times as likely to commit suicide than women. Reeves argues that this state of affairs requires that we hold two seemingly contradictory ideas at once: Men at the highest rungs of the economic ladder are still advantaged by a system that perpetuates gender inequality, while men on the lower rungs of society face unique challenges because they are men."
#MeToo as a powerful coordinated campaign meant to radicalise women does explain why it was so powerful
To push the left wing agenda, feminism needs to claim that older women are stupid/clueless about their "oppression"
My boyfriend called me homophobic because I think anal sex is gross : r/offmychest - "My (18F) boyfriend (22M) asked if we could try anal the other day. I declined because I find it gross and the anus isn’t designed to be penetrated. He asked if by that logic I find gay people gross. I said I have nothing against people who like it but it’s not something I’m interested in. He joked that maybe one day I’ll overcome my homophobia. I love my boyfriend a lot and we have a healthy sex life but that comment annoyed me. I’m not a bigoted person."
Liberal women the 'least happy and loneliest' in America, according to a new survey - "New evidence in the 2024 American Family Survey, found that 37 percent of conservative women from the ages of 18-40 reported being satisfied with their life. Only 12 percent of liberal women in the same group said they felt the same way, while 28 percent of moderate said they were satisfied. The findings also say that liberal women are nearly three times more likely than conservatives to say they experienced loneliness at least a few times a week... Sociology professor Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia told Fox that he believes there are several explainers for the rift between conservative and liberal women. He said: 'We've seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces. 'They're also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate.' The final analysis added: 'This ideological divide does not appear to be just a consequence of negative thinking; it also seems to flow from the fact that liberal young women are less likely to be integrated into core American institutions—specifically marriage and religion—that lend meaning, direction, and a sense of solidarity to women’s lives."
The cope for happiness is that conservatives and deluded and think the world is fine but left wingers see it as it is and know how shitty it is, but the loneliness aspect is telling: the cult of left wing politics encourages you to cut off friends and family for not agreeing with you on politics, as well as not to get married or have kids, so you will be further drawn into it. The bit on agency is also important: left wingers think that "minorities" have no free will and that we are all at the mercy of "social forces", so amplifying the female tendency to have an external locus of control is a great way to make them miserable
‘I’ve given up’: The reality of dating for young women in red states - "Chen also notes that, for women, the stakes naturally feel higher. “I have many couples in my practice where the woman is really alarmed, scared and anxious about the political divide and what’s happening in our current administration, whereas the man is fine and doesn’t necessarily see it as much of a threat,” says Chen. “When we’re feeling that our rights to actually live are being threatened on a day-to-day basis, our nervous system and our alarms are going to be a lot more heightened than somebody who doesn’t feel like anything’s going to be taken away.”"
Comments (from Facebook): "When men can't find women to date its obvious his own fault, which is probably correct. When women can't find people to date.. its also men's fault??? π€£πππ
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"Women say they want a traditional man. Don't those guys tend to lean more conservative?"
"Women want a man whos traditional in build, and attitude, but somehow has the viewpoints of a liberal like they do. But! He also has to pay all of the bills and, be the leader while she also has a job and also has a say alongside him. I see the issue!"
"When the same problem for men is called the “male loneliness epidemic” women laugh at it and blame the menπ€£"
The cruelty of wokeness is that it terrifies especially young women in order to instrumentalise them for political gain. Ironically, left wingers call religion abusive for similar reasons. "Fascism" plays the role that hell plays in Christianity
Meme - Adam Singer @AdamSinger: "Pretty much every chart over the last few years says women radicalized while men stayed normal, but we've seen almost no media coverage about this. Should be a huge story with ongoing coverage. Curious"
"Young women have become much more liberal. Young men, not so much.
Political ideology of US 18-29 year olds, by gender
Young women are driving the left.
Since 1999, young women have shifted strongly liberal. Young men have stayed about the same."
Forget the manosphere. It’s angry Leftie women we need to worry about - "As the mother of sons, I wish we didn’t spend quite so much time knocking young men. TV talking points like Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere have focussed our attention on problematic blokes to such an extent that few pose an important question: What’s up with the femosphere? It seems that for every male who’s found his mentor in Andrew Tate or the late Charlie Kirk, there’s a young woman who’s been radicalised by Greta Thunberg and AOC (Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to you and me). On both sides of the Atlantic, polling shows young women are far more likely to skew Left than their male counterparts. It’s fair to say this emerging female cohort seems to live in ceaseless dread and fury of fossil fuels, Elon Musk, toxic masculinity, TERFs and neo-Nazis. I have some sympathy for this campaigning brigade of seething young women. The dark revelations that flowed from MeToo, the Epstein Files and horrific episodes like Sarah Everard’s murder at the evil hands of Met officer Wayne Couzens made most women’s blood boil. But my generation wasn’t raised on the sewer-tide of social media and fake news, where – if you’re not constantly vigilant – rage-inducing algorithms propel you towards blood-boiling content and agitators sweep you into causes you’re being groomed to embrace, rather than challenge. To no one’s surprise, this mass seething isn’t making the Gen Z sisterhood happy. The Left’s own in-house magazine, The New Statesman, has a cover story this week titled “Meet the angry young women: the new feminism reshaping Britain”. The mag’s poll found (once again) that “young women, aged between 18 and 30, are by far the most progressive demographic in the UK”. The writer, Emily Lawford, zipped up and down the land interrogating feminist influencers and hanging out in a trans-inclusive student women’s book group, a Unison “youth wing” ceilidh and… well, you get the gist. Suffice to say, Lawford’s findings make for deeply depressing reading that should trouble us all. The more privileged class of women “are the most pessimistic of all” and less likely than working-class contemporaries to believe hard work will propel them to success. Equally startling was the fact young progressive females seem decidedly more negative about their male peers than vice versa, while “white women are more likely to feel the country is racist than non-white women”. I was reminded of how US commentator Rob Henderson coined the phrase “luxury beliefs” after attending Yale following service in the US air force – having also survived a traumatic childhood, where he was fostered at the age of 3. Henderson noted that the affluent, privileged students around him constantly espoused opinions that bore no relation to the stable circumstances that had jet-propelled them to the top of the heap. His peers would denounce capitalism, the nuclear family, marriage, fidelity and the key role of fathers, while not acknowledging they’d benefitted from that very system. What are we to do with female malcontents and their apocalyptic pessimism? If an increasing number of educated young women feel hopeless about the world’s future, hostile towards men, intend to spurn relationships (let alone marriage), declare themselves non-binary and don’t want to have children, as Lawford reports, then we’re all up Faeces Creek without a paddle. And that’s before we examine their desire to overturn capitalism, without having the faintest grasp of basic economics. I see signs of this generational disaffection in my four beloved nieces, while the four male cousins are more happy-go-lucky. Three of the four young men have girlfriends, while only one of the nieces is currently dating a young man – and two of them have declared they don’t want children, while all the boys remain baby-positive. This imbalance between the sexes is perilous for wider society. How on earth do women of my generation persuade these young Green Amazons that the most certain forms of consolation and meaning in an often bleak world reside in passionate love, family life and the blessed distraction from Armageddon that is parenthood? And that men are, by and large, decent, chivalrous, thoughtful and disarmingly funny?"
Clearly rich women know how the world is really like and poor women are just deluded. Ditto for white women who know that poor minority women suffer racism - they just don't know it
βππ’ on X - "Casual sex is unironically a huge part of why so many women have become politically radicalized. If you ask a random woman why she hates men, 95% chance it boils down to sexual grievance, accumulated from embarrassing experiences like the OP. In other words, women are the real incels (in spirit). I witnessed this myself in college: one too many bad situationships, and they begin to carry this feeling of being a piece of meat everywhere, projecting it onto “society” despite there being zero material evidence of structural misogyny in the West. The bitter irony is that hookup / situationship culture is a byproduct of feminism; they fought for the ability to be treated like pieces of meat, to be equal to men sexual the way gay men are with each other, but the attainment of this freedom has done nothing but foment an even deeper hatred of their father’s civilization"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The idea that the reason modern women don't like men (65% negative view among younger women) is that men don't like women - when we can clearly see that's not true in the same data (7% negative view) - is one of the more absurd examples of straight-up refusal to take responsibility that I have ever seen. Nor is the reason "declining male feminism since we started polling in 1944." Come ON. The obvious issue is that "woke" takes on race and gender relations have been the mainstream national narrative since the 1960s. We are a society that literally teaches kids that our own founding principles are evil. Gen Z women are more likely to think that they "will never succeed, because of sexism" than Baby Boomers were. This may not be the only relevant variable, but it's just beyond damned absurd to pretend ~70 years of this had no effect."
Somewhat lower than 65% but still
Wilfred Reilly on X - "White women are now more likely to say the USA is racist than young Black and Hispanic women - who only think this at a 39% rate - and also less likely to feel valued by their men and the nation. Whatever is going on with "white girls" mentally is THE most striking thing I see in social science data...just ahead of hood/Black crime and variations in religion."
Women Are More Likely Than Men to Endorse Political Violence - "A recent survey by the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers found that under certain conditions, women were more likely than men to express support for political violence. The findings were so counter to the prevailing narrative that they surprised even the researchers. It makes sense, though, when you start to recognize where these women’s impulses come from. The rise of what I call “punitive femininity” is downstream of the toxic political culture online, a culture that is transforming the sex long viewed as more restrained and less prone to violence... Among left-of-center respondents, 67 percent expressed at least some justification for the murder of Trump, an 11-point increase over NCRI’s earlier 2025 study. Fifty-four percent of right-of-center respondents expressed some degree of justification for murdering Mamdani. Strikingly, justification for killing Trump and justification for killing Mamdani were strongly correlated. This implies that support for political murder is not merely partisan but reflects a generalized tolerance for political violence. The most unexpected result: women were significantly more likely than men to endorse such violence. Female respondents were approximately 21 percent more likely than males to express some justification for murdering Mamdani and nearly 15 percent more likely to justify murdering Trump... The strongest predictors of tolerance for violence in NCRI’s data were heavy social media use and a sense that America is in a state of terminal decline. The supporters of violence in the survey aren’t traditional extremists. Rather, they seem motivated by the despair, nihilism, and moral confusion online. For whatever reason, women seem uniquely at risk for infection by this mindset. Over the past decade, women—especially younger women—have become more politically and affectively polarized in their political judgments. Political disagreement is increasingly treated as a serious moral offense rather than a simple difference of opinion. When you see the world that way, punishing someone for holding different views becomes a moral good. I think of this mindset as “punitive femininity.” By punitive femininity, I do not mean to invoke notions of hostility, cruelty, or aggression in the conventional sense. I mean the transformation of moral concern into a license to act punitively. Adoption of this attitude is fueled by a combination of raw anger, emotional manipulation, and an exaggerated sense of moral certainty. Social media plays a central role in this transformation. Modern platforms reward outrage, absolutism, and performative aggression. They flatten moral complexity, elevating and even glorifying condemnation. This lens helps make sense of some of the strangest corners of the internet. Consider the online reaction to Luigi Mangione. After his arrest for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, some treated Mangione not as a killer, but as a celebrity. They even explicitly sexualized him, describing him as attractive, charismatic, and even romantic. When violence is paired with attraction, it stops being judged on moral terms. Instead of asking whether an action is wrong, people start asking whether it feels meaningful, expressive, or somehow justified. Women aren’t uniquely prone to this dynamic. But they do disproportionately occupy and get their news from the digital spaces where this kind of aestheticization spreads fastest."
Time to blame right wingers, and men, for political violence
James L. Nuzzo, PhD on X - "The Journal of Gender Studies has published a special issue on masculinity and extremism on the far right. I wonder when they plan to publish a special issue on the extremism of women on the far left."
Young women are radicalising - New Statesman - "a smaller percentage of young men voted for Reform (12 per cent) than the general population (14.3 per cent). Actually, 18- to 24-year-old men were far less likely to have voted for Farage than every other age cohort of men, and young men were still overwhelmingly more likely to vote for left-wing or liberal parties (68 per cent voted Labour, Lib Dem or Green) than they were for a right-wing party (22 per cent voted Conservative or Reform). If voting for a populist right party is indicative of a more radical mindset, then by this metric young men were some of the least radical demographic groups of the whole country. The 2024 voting patterns of young women tell a very different story. Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of 18- to 24-year-old women voted for the Green Party at the last general election, compared to just 6.7 per cent of the general population (12 per cent of young men voted for the Greens). Greens performed far better with young women than with any other key demographic (just 10 per cent of 25- to 49-year-old women voted Green, and only 4 per cent of 50- to 64-year-olds). In last year’s general election, young women moved to the populist left considerably more than young men moved to the populist right... the UK is not alone in seeing young women move increasingly to the left. Recent elections in the US, Germany and Portugal all show similar movements between the sexes. In previous decades young women were actually more likely to vote Conservative than men. However, this trend started reversing in 2015, primarily driven by the younger end of the electorate. In 2019, 18- to 25-year-old women voted for Jeremy Corbyn at more than double the rate of the general population (65 per cent to 32.1 per cent), dwarfing the still considerable 46 per cent of young men who did the same. What over the past decade has caused young women to lurch so dramatically to the left? I recently recorded a documentary for Radio 4 with Gaby Hinsliffe exploring some potential explanations as to why women are moving dramatically to the left. We discussed the idea that there might be more to the change than conventional party politics. Strikingly, the majority of young people do not identify as either right- or left-wing. Instead, young women see their politics as flowing from their deeply held progressive personal values, which they increasingly think are at odds with the country they see around them. Britain’s young women seem to feel more alienated from their country than their male peers, and are more likely to think that the country is treating them unfairly compared to older generations (men marginally disagree with the statement, women agree 55 per cent to 37 per cent). Young women feel less connected to their country than young men and are 21 points more likely to think that the country is racist than young men (58 per cent to 37 per cent). Only a minority (31 per cent) say they take pride in being British (compared to 51 per cent of men the same age) and only 38 per cent believe Britain is a tolerant nation (56 per cent of young men think the same). In fact, young women are not just pessimistic about the country’s culture, but the country’s economy too... One in three (31 cent) of 16- to 25-year-old women say the conflict in Gaza is in their top three issues, placing it above things like taxes and immigration (just 22 per cent of young men say the same). Again, it is not immediately obvious why young women would report feeling more isolated than their male peers, but there does seem to be a loneliness epidemic among young women. A majority (53 per cent) saying they feel lonely, substantially more than the proportion of young men saying the same. The amount of time spent online is also surprisingly skewed across the gender divide. It is well known that the “Covid generation” were kept off school and forced to live out their social lives on the internet, and that algorithms mean young men and women live increasingly parallel lives online. What is less well known is that Covid generation women self-report as being more online, or at least more worried about it, than their male peers... Online media consumption, higher education (the gender divide is starkest between women with university degrees and men without them, with 56 per cent of university students now women) and even relationship status all seem to drive the increasingly different political outlooks from young men and young women. The political gap between those that are single is even more pronounced than between those who are married."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Time to mock men for the male loneliness epidemic and say they deserve it
Angry young women are driving men into the arms of cougars - "If you’ve been on the internet in the last decade, you’ll have heard that, as an archetypal New York Times opinion headline put it: “The boys are not alright”. According to countless think pieces and Netflix dramas, most young men are spending their days indulging in violence and writing in online chatrooms about how much they hate women. In 2018, the word “incel” was a finalist for Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. In 2025, the Dutch Language Institute crowned “manosphere” as the emerging word of the year, in part, they said, because of the popular drama Adolescence about a quiet 13-year-old boy slaying a girl in his class because of something someone said on the internet. But when you look more closely, you’ll realise that, in fact, the boys are doing swimmingly compared to the girls, who have in aggregate become “Angry Young Women”, traipsing around the country in keffiyehs, screaming about formerly trendy Left-wing issues, and how much they hate men. In a piece for the New Statesman, pollster Scarlett Maguire revealed just how dire the numbers are. “Thirty-eight per cent of men,” she wrote, “say they feel ‘very positively’ towards women, while only 18 per cent of women say the same about men. This trend is particularly pronounced among women under 25, of whom just 35 per cent feel ‘positively’ towards men.” Needless to say, these numbers are worryingly low, given that young men and young women are naturally predisposed to at least try to like one another. But young women can sit and seethe all they want. Because while they’re complaining about how unfair it all is and how terrible men are, by the latest accounts, their male counterparts have moved on. The New York Times recently reported that “older women are in demand by younger men”, adding that the dating app Feeld had reported huge growth in this preference in the past two years... When The New York Times interviewed young men about their reasons for seeking out older women, the answers were things like:
“Because of a toxic dating world... they all hate us all. Social media is: ‘Men are trash.’ You know who’s not saying that? The older ones.”
Older women aren’t “ghosting me after six weeks”.
Older women have more “openness for a relationship. A real relationship: exclusivity, something longer-lasting”...
What women need, now more than ever, is a nice young man to sweep them off their feet and make them ask themselves: “How could I be so stupid?” Not to sound too schmaltzy, but the answer to this increasingly worrying contagion of fear and misery is true love. But how are young women to get their Prince Charming if he’s wrapped up in the arms of someone the same age as his mother? Not to mention, it will do terrible things for the fertility rate, which, in this country, is already falling. And somebody has got to pay for those pensioners when their young boyfriends leave them for – hopefully – a coming generation of women that, one can only hope, is not so addicted to algorithmic misery that they don’t even want the basic joys of life like love, romance, marriage and children."
Christian Heiens π on X - "“Why are women doing this?” Because women are natural conservatives and they will seek to conserve whatever the existing social order is. Our social order is gay race communism mediated by libtard progressivism. So women naturally seek to conserve it because the safest bet in society is to defend the status quo, which is what women have always done since the dawn of civilization. This is why women were conservatives until the 60s. They defended the old tradition order until it was torn down. Once that social order changed, they shifted their support to the new reigning ideology. And they’ll continue to do so until that too has been torn down."
