Thread by @Scarlett__Mag on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "On the cover of this week's @NewStatesman: Not the manosphere, but the femosphere? Gen-z women are in revolt against a country they don't like and don't think works for them. Thanks to @Will___lloyd for commissioning new research on angry young women @emilylawford 🧵👇
✴️Young women are 26 pts less favourable to capitalism than young men, and feel much more positively towards communism than capitalism.
✴️Women u25 dislike capitalism so much, they view it as (un)favourably as fascism.
✴️UK should pay slavery reparations by a 2-1 margin
✴️They think 43%-40% 'it is unfair some people have more than others and we should redistribute wealth' over 'people deserve to keep what is theirs, even if it means others have less'
✴️More negative than young men about their careers, earning potential and property
Young middle class educated white women feel the most strongly about these issues.
✴️17% of ABC1 women have a positive view of capitalism compared to 32% of C2DE women
✴️ABC1 women more likely to think the economy works against them
✴️Female graduates hold much more positive views about communism, feminism, socialism and extinction rebellion than non-graduates
✴️Grads are also more likely to back slavery reparations say we need more government intervention to ensure life is fair
White women are more critical about the country and their chances in it than those from an ethnic minority background
✴️Young white women are more likely to say the country is racist and sexist
✴️Young white women are less likely to say they feel valued by society
There is a 'Covid generation'
✴️ U25s are much more likely to think Covid had a significant impact on heir lives and opportunities. ✴
️U25 women are much more likely to believe that "things are stacked against me, no matter how hard I try"
Strikingly, young women are *a lot* more negative about the opposite gender than young men.
✴️U30 women are 3x as likely to hold a negative view of young men than the other way around
✴️Just 35% of u25 women hold a positive view, only 11% a very positive view
✴️6 in 10 (58%) say they would find it difficult to date someone who disagreed on Gaza
✴️3 in 4 (74%) say the say the same about views of Donald Trump, with even more saying they wouldn't date someone who disagreed about social justice"
Clearly, privileged women feeling more oppressed and miserable proves that they understand how shitty life is for women today and less privileged women are suffering from false consciousness
Why is there such a huge political divide between young men and young women? : r/NoStupidQuestions - "One political party is telling young men that they are the problem with everything that is wrong in the world today The other is telling young men that they can achieve anything if they just work hard and support their family"
"Show me a single dem who has said that"
"“I just want to say to the men in this country: just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change.” - Senator Mazie Hirono
“Men have been getting on my nerves lately… we’re violent, we’re bullying.” - Barack Obama
“The future is female.” - Hillary Clinton
“The Democratic Party is the women’s party.” - Anna Greenberg
There’s no question that the Democratic Party overall is more pro-female than pro-male. You don’t find nearly as many anti-female comments from Dem leaders, and the policy recommendations definitely prioritize women. Just look at their platform and the “Who We Serve” section of their website. The Dems have alienated a lot of men over the years."
"“Now women, I just want you to know, you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you are better than us [men]." - Barack Obama"
"I mean the top comment here when you sort by controversial is "young men are fucking stupid". Like why do you smoothbrains love to ignore what's right in front of your face?"
Meme - "Birth rates declining. Governments panicking. Men complaining. Meanwhile women are finally tasting what life feels like when they're not automatically drafted into unpaid labor, emotional support, and struggle disguised as womanhood."
Cory Rogers: "Governments aren't panicking because women are finally "free." They're panicking because societies don't work when people stop having kids. No workers. No taxpayers. No one to replace the aging population. That's not patriarchy. That's just reality. Men aren't complaining because women aren't providing emotional labor. Men are checking out because modern dating has become a bullshit deal where they're expected to provide, protect, pursue, pay, and perform while being told they're not needed. Eventually people stop playing a game that's stacked against them. The feminist propaganda is pretending every sacrifice women made was oppression while completely ignoring the sacrifices men made too. Family wasn't some evil plot against women. It was a partnership that built civilization. The fact they're trying to sell collapsing birth rates, loneliness, and broken families as empowerment tells you everything you need to know."
Feminists Increasingly Engage in Acts of Violent Extremism - "Terrorism has long been part of the feminist armamentarium. During the decade before the First World War, feminists terrorized the United Kingdom with a wave of attacks on churches and shops that included bombings, arson, and physical violence. In 1912, suffragettes attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Herbert Asquith by hurling a hatchet at him (1). Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst justified these acts of terrorism by claiming that at a time of injustice, it was inexcusable to not set off bombs. As a result of the misguided suffragette campaign, at least five persons died and dozens were seriously injured (2). In Germany, historian Elizabeth Heineman has written an entire book on Feminism and Terrorism, highlighting the terrorist activities conducted by feminists Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin in the notorious Red Army Faction during the 1970s and 1980s. (3) Now, feminists in the United States and Latin America are increasingly engaging in extremist and violent attacks on property and persons:
United States: Following the leak of the impending Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, a dramatic spike of violent attacks on churches and pro-life clinics and organizations was documented. In 2023 alone, 436 acts of violence were identified, including fire-bombings, desecration of religious objects, and vandalization of buildings (4). In New Jersey, seven high school students were suspended after they assaulted 16-year-old Nichole Pagano for holding a pro-life sign (5). The FBI later opened investigations of many of these incidents as “potential acts of domestic violent extremism.” (6)
Latin America: International Women’s Day has become a rallying point for pro-abortion feminists across Latin America as they engage in lawless activities such as vandalizing churches, spraying graffiti, and attacking bystanders. In many cases, civilians form a human shield to protect churches from the attacks. During the 2021 Women’s Day protest in Mexico City, feminists wielding hammers and sticks attacked the National Palace, injuring 81 police officers and civilians. One photograph depicts four women carrying a slab of metal as a battering ram against the police defenses (7). In Morelos, feminists sought to violently remove the fencing in front of the Cuernavaca Cathedral. In Oaxaca, feminists attempted to set fire to the church front door (8).
One report reveals the scope of feminist extremism: “Increasingly violent demonstrations in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, as well in several countries in the West, for example those organized to mark the UN’s ‘Women’s Day’ (8th March), saw religious buildings and faithful attacked. People were left unaided by police and other emergency services as they sought to defend their churches, temples, and other religious buildings at great personal risk.” (9) World Watch Research analyst Rossana Ramirez admits, “It is especially worrying that the degree of violence and aggression towards churches and religious statues is increasing in intensity every year.” (10) Of equal concern is the tendency of media accounts to downplay the seriousness of the feminist attacks. Accordingly, there have been few legal consequences for the perpetrators. In England, feminist Emmeline Pankhurst once boasted about the inability of officials to keep her in prison: “Four times they took me back again; four times I burst the prison door open.” (2) Physical attacks on persons, bombings, arson, and more. Amazingly, not a single feminist organization is known to have ever condemned or called for a cessation of the terrorist tactics."
No wonder men are opting out | The Spectator Australia - "The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book – The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment – arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic – inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture, and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had shamed them into tying the knot and becoming a good provider, lest they be seen as immature, irresponsible, and less than a real man. Ehrenreich understood that marriage was the mechanism by which society harnessed male productivity. Remove the shame, and the yoke comes off. Forty years on, the yoke has disappeared. In April 2026, the American male labour force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. One in three American men – roughly 33 per cent – were not working or actively looking for work. The overall male participation rate for men aged 16 and over stood at just 67 per cent, down from 73.5 per cent two decades ago and from 87 per cent in the postwar years when Ehrenreich’s story begins. The trend is not confined to America. Australian men’s workforce participation has fallen from around 79 per cent in 1978 to approximately 71 per cent today, while similar declines – though less dramatic than in the United States – have occurred in the UK and Canada... Ehrenreich had made the argument that marriage and productivity were inseparable – that the same mechanism which got men to the altar got them to work. The data suggests she was right. What Ehrenreich did not fully reckon with – could not have foreseen in 1983 – was that the inducements for tying the knot would collapse. The shame mechanism has disappeared, yes, but the incentive has simultaneously imploded. The product on offer has changed beyond recognition. If you want to understand why men are voting with their feet, you need to look not just at what marriage now costs them – and the costs are severe – but at what it delivers. Increasingly, what it delivers is a pretty dud deal.
The modern woman: a prospectus
Some studies show they are the most miserable, anxious, and insecure cohort in living memory – hardly great marriage material. Many married women go off sex – and the husband who objects is seen as the problem. Many women don’t actually like men very much. The more educated she is, the higher the contempt. Increasing numbers of women have gone full throttle left – and three quarters of college-educated women in some studies won’t even date a man who votes differently. The education system contains anti-male rhetoric and it has, in some cases, colonised corporate and institutional life, turning universities and workplaces into man-repellent factories. Yet their hypergamy is still running hot. Despite outnumbering men in education and careers, statistically some women still demand a tall, equally high-status unicorn. The modern female threat-detection system is hyperactive. Almost any male behaviour – silence, opinions, jokes, breathing – gets flagged as a red flag. Many women are well-versed in the lucrative economics of divorce, and there have been reported incidents of false allegations being used to eliminate tedious shared parenting.
What rational man reads this list and thinks: yes, that’s exactly what’s been missing from my life?... many young women don’t like men. A Merlin Strategy poll of young Britons aged 18 to 30 found three times more young women than young men held a negative view of the opposite sex. Only about 50 per cent of women had a positive view of men compared to 72 per cent of men feeling positive about women. For women under 25, it was even starker: only around one-third (35 per cent) reported a positive view of men. This applies particularly to professional and managerial young women of whom, according to some polls, just 36 per cent hold a positive view of men, compared with 61 per cent of working-class women. In other words, the contempt for men is most concentrated in educated, middle-class women – precisely the demographic that has benefited most from feminist gains and whose prospects are objectively the strongest. The contempt for men is hardly surprising – that’s what they have been taught. Mary Harrington, a British journalist and cultural critic who writes on Substack, frequently critiques what she calls the ‘femosphere’ – the online feminist spaces where women bond through shared grievances about men. ‘The online feminist scene often feels like one long group therapy session for women to compare notes on how awful men are,’ she writes, suggesting this makes men the universal scapegoat, where ordinary male behaviour is routinely framed as toxic or oppressive, while women’s collective resentment is rewarded and amplified. ‘Casual, low-level male-bashing has become the background hum of progressive online culture.’ Encountering these women isn’t much fun for men. Reddit recently published this telling comment: ‘It’s exhausting. You might be having a decent conversation, then she drops a casual “men suck” comment like it’s small talk. Feels like you’re starting every interaction with a presumption of guilt.’... Not only does this toxic climate encourage women to be wary of men, but growing up in a hate-fuelled online sewer takes a toll on their mental health... Recent large-scale surveys (Ipsos 2025–26 across 31 countries, Gallup 2025) are showing Gen Z women currently report the highest recorded levels of anxiety, persistent sadness/hopelessness, and depression of any female generation at the same age. Around 33 per cent of young women feel anxious or worried about the future ‘almost all the time’; 40 per cent of Gen Z workers feel anxious or depressed at least a few times per week, according to recent 2025 surveys... For as long as anyone can remember, men were shamed into showing up economically. Society has absolutely nothing to say to women who stop showing up sexually. One obligation was enforced by church, law, and community for centuries. The other is now abrogated on the grounds of bodily autonomy. So here we have the portrait of the modern woman as marriage prospect: miserable, anxious, politically radicalised, contemptuous of men, often sexually rejecting, and trained to see menace in ordinary male behaviour. And yet the puzzled chorus from commentators, economists, and policymakers continues: Why won’t men commit? Why won’t they work?
Meme - Valia @livetime_fe: "No but the men are so lonely I wonder whyyyyy"
""How to k*ll a woman without leaving a trace" was googled 163 million times in 2025. But it's okay-let's talk about alimony and the male loneliness epidemic."
Bobbyman @bobby_man_: "oh please"
"how to kill a woman"
"how to kill a man"
"Interest over time *how to kill a man always being significantly more popular, up to more than 2.5x as popular*
Meme - Kangmin Lee @kangminlee: "Women have spent decades championing feminism, only to end up bitterly miserable. Yet they'll blame capitalism, men, or anything else before admitting that they were wrong."
"me at work because I'm watching my baby sit up for the time through the monitor"
Meme - "wild thought but maybe the rise in right wing men has something to do with the normalisation of being hateful towards men. idk if i was hated on for something i couldnt control i could be radicalised easily too.."
mike bski on X - "Let me tell you something that peer-reviewed science has documented for years and that the Democrat Party is PRAYING you never connect to what happened outside the White House yesterday. 56% of white liberal women aged 18 to 29 report chronic poor mental health. The same demographic of conservative women? 27%. The "extremely liberal" category shows a 150% HIGHER rate of mental illness compared to moderates. These are not my numbers. This is the General Social Survey. 64,000 respondents. Decades of data. Now here is the part nobody in mainstream media will say out loud. The Democrat Party knows this. They have always known this. And they are NOT trying to fix it — because a psychologically healthy voter who is not in a constant state of fear might start asking inconvenient questions. Like: what have Democrats actually accomplished in the cities they have run for fifty years? Like: if your policies work so well, why is everything still getting worse? Those are not questions a panicking person asks. That is exactly the point.
Quinn's Law Number Four: "Liberalism only succeeds when the public is scared into believing it will not survive without it."
So they do not give you small threats. Democracy is dying TODAY. Fascism arrived LAST TUESDAY. Trump is Hitler, a traitor, a pedophile, an EXISTENTIAL MONSTER who must be stopped by any means necessary. They crank the volume to eleven just to get the alarm to fire in a brain that was built to need bigger threats before it activates — and then they CANNOT turn it off. A woman quit her job in 2025 and moved into her car because she found out her boss voted for Trump. Thousands of supporters cheered her on. Not one Democrat politician looked at that and said "this person needs actual help." Because a woman in a car blaming Republicans is not a person in crisis to them. She is a campaign ad.
Now tell me — what happens when you take that same psychological machinery, run it on a person already unmoored from reality, and tell them for YEARS that the man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is literally Hitler and that stopping Hitler is a moral imperative? You get four attempts in [X DAYS] days. That is what you get. Cole Allen's manifesto at the Correspondents' Dinner read like a Democrat Party press release. Verbatim. He did not invent those words. He assembled them from a media ecosystem that broadcast them daily to millions of dysregulated, chronically anxious people who were never offered help — only more outrage, more fear, more fundraising emails with subject lines that read "THIS IS AN EMERGENCY." The machine that keeps their voters scared and dependent is the SAME machine that keeps producing assassins... But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who literally wrote a published textbook on how the human brain works, a medically retired Army combat medic who has run more mental health calls than most people have hot meals, and apparently one of the only people left willing to say that DELIBERATELY KEEPING YOUR VOTERS MENTALLY ILL FOR PROFIT is not compassion — it is predatory."
Meme - Grant Bailey @grantjbailey: "Interesting gap here-teen girls are increasingly saying that being a woman will hinder their work opportunities. @FamStudies"
"Teen girls feel limits on work opportunities % of 12th graders who say being their sex is an obstacle to getting work"
Feminism: teaching women that they are victims to radicalise them so they will push the left wing agenda
John Carter on X - "Women have never been freer, more prosperous, or more independent, they've never been safer, they've never enjoyed more support and validation, they've never had more power and opportunity, and they are absolutely furious about all of it."
Time to condemn misogyny and label misandry a myth
How young women are radicalized into hating men - The Globe and Mail - "While there has been much criticism of the “manosphere” and its associated peddling of misogyny to boys, analogous female-centric online communities – the “femosphere” – thrive as well. Femosphere influencers encourage women to be calculating in their interactions with men and to use them for their money, akin to how some men will use women for sex. The femosphere is similarly noxious in its promotion of misandry to girls, yet it has elicited milder, if any, consternation by comparison. Leaving this bias unchecked has had serious consequences. Poll findings published by The New Statesman suggest that a generation of young women have been radicalized by online content, moving further left in their politics and harbouring full-fledged hatred of men. Young women, especially those with white-collar jobs, have more negative views of the opposite sex than men do. Only 50 per cent of women polled (aged 18 to 30) said they have a positive view of men, while 72 per cent of same-aged men had a positive view of women. For women under the age of 25, this pessimism was more pronounced – only about a third reported a positive view of men. Although the manosphere’s anti-woman ideology has been loud, it seems anti-male attitudes are more widespread. In addition to polarizing content on social media, the educational system and a cultural desensitization to male suffering have produced this unfortunate shift in young women – including fomenting a sentiment that retribution against men is justified. In higher education, young women are told they remain oppressed at the hands of men. In response, many scholarships and professional opportunities are offered explicitly to women (but not to men), despite the fact that women and girls are objectively outperforming their male peers. Regarding cultural trends, when pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter began killing men in her music videos, this further solidified her popularity instead of ending her career. I highly doubt a male musician nonchalantly depicting homicidal acts against women in today’s climate would enjoy the same acclaim. Many young men are understandably aggrieved by this double standard. And the resentment on both sides has roiled the dating pool... How will this battle end? Studies have found that women become more conservative with marriage and motherhood, but as more young women eschew both due to women’s greater economic success and societal norms celebrating their singledom, the political gap – and lack of understanding – between the sexes will only grow. Single men looking to settle down may feel inclined to downplay their right-leaning political beliefs to spark a woman’s interest, but this does not fare well for the longevity of a relationship. With such a stark misalignment in values, many young people are giving up on dating altogether. Instead of engaging in an endless spiral of dehumanizing the other, men and women must call out sexism and cruelty on both sides. Our institutions and media should acknowledge that online extremism can occur from women and men alike. Both sexes must recognize that every person they meet is an individual, not a member of a tribe. A stranger shouldn’t be held responsible for the hurtful things a previous partner did. Consuming divisive content won’t make a person savvier on the dating market. It only lines the pockets of histrionic influencers and Big Tech."
TheTinMen on X - "I'll be honest. When I read articles like this, I am entirely lost as to what “being a progressive” actually means. Besides living what seems to be a wretched life, twisted-up within a social-media-induced web of chronic pessimism; a lot of these young "progressive" women appear to have very inward facing, rigid, uncompromising, low resolution, cookie-cutter world views, that to me, are the absolute antithesis of “progressive”, and anything but liberal. I know this brand of 'angry young woman' well. They remind me of the arts / politics students I used to critique (95% were women); almost ALL of their ideas were the same, ALL lacking in originality and bravery, every pitch just another spineless, rehashed combo of LGBT and/or feminist soundbites. It was tiresome. And these were Masters students, at one of the world's most prestigious arts schools; all of them mid-twenties, living in the zeitgest of London, and nearly every idea they came up with, was just... the same. You can imagine what I was like being pitched these ideas (lol), and whilst it lasted, I tried my best to snap them out of it, and genuinely challenge their entrenched views. They never really listened. "Please, no more pitches about feminism or LGBT", I once asked the entire class, which of course fell on deaf ears; as literally, the next student stood up, cleared her throat, and announced her film on "environmental feminist activism". FML. These so-called "progressive" ideas, are actually the new status quo. And we're so afraid to throw stones at them (especially in higher education), that true progressivism feels like a distant memory, and a word with no meaning at all. Remember, by its nature, to be a progressive is to be unpopular. Progressivism doesn't win you applause, it gets you pelted with eggs. You won't hear it on stage at your local feminist SU society; but rather, whispered behind bike sheds, by outcasts and weirdos. As a great man said – “Progress isn't achieved by preachers or guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics”. So what does "being a progressive" mean to you?"
