Did the feminists push too hard?
In their headline and in the poll results, the issue is framed as "gender equality," which makes readers think young men don't want women to have equal rights or equal value.
The questions are a bit more nuanced, however (more on that in a sec).
First, let's look at the feminist who posted the video that the Post references (get ready for a super woke white lady to lecture you about Jesus 😂)
[Warning: F-bomb because of course]
Okay, so masculinity is toxic, Jesus was a brown communist refugee, and we need to police our boys at church to make sure they believe feminism and accept transgender fetishists.
GOT IT. 🥴
Let's look back at the questions asked in this survey of 8th- and 10th- grade boys (published in May by David Waldron).
Up until sweeping changes in the 1960s, U.S. federal government policy used to prioritize jobs and pay for men who had to support families. It recognized the biological differences and realities between men and women.
The current job market, however, not only ignores the distinction between gender roles (by law), it actively discriminates against men and has done so at the behest of left-wing feminist ideology for several decades.
While men still dominate the top executive roles (26% of women held a C-suite position in 2023), many entry and middle-management roles across industries are focused on "equity," which involves excluding men (especially white men) in order to hire more women and minorities.
Young men, who are naturally wired as males to seek upward mobility to prove they are sufficient providers for potential mates, have been blocked out of "climbing the ladder," which has made many men bitter toward the entire system (and society as a whole).
It isn't confined to the U.S., however. From the Post:
Economist Erin Clarke, from the e61 Institute, analysed Australian data from the long-running HILDA survey and found Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) are increasingly likely to believe in traditional gender roles - things like 'men should earn the money while women care for the kids.' Clarke's work was reported by The Guardian in April, and it revealed something no parent really wants to hear: young men today are more likely to hold sexist views than millennial or Gen X men.
The Post goes on to advise the same kind of feminist strategies as the woman in the video: Make sure your sons aren't listening to male social media influencers who discuss masculinity.
It sounds dramatic, but researchers liken the way boys get drawn into this ecosystem to radicalisation. It starts small: a joke, a meme, a 'just banter' clip. Then the algorithm does the rest, serving up more extreme content until misogyny feels normal.
Would the author of this Post article consider the top comments on her story "radical"?
The problem with the conclusion that the online "Manosphere" is causing this trend is that the data don't support it. Men are coming to these conclusions naturally. In the same study, notice how social media usage barely changes young men's views:
In fact, watching videos and playing games corresponded with an INCREASE in pro-feminist views:
The gap between men and women in religion and politics is continuing to grow.
How that translates into the job market is not for me to say. I'm not here to celebrate or criticize the data, only to report it.
But I can tell you that continuing to ignore men, while lecturing them and censoring male voices, is going to lead to even more of the scariest, "misogynistic" outcomes that feminists fear. 🤷♂️
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