Many Young Democratic Women Hate Men. Not All the Reasons Why Are Obvious

“I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act,” said Robin Morgan, a Ms. magazine editor and prominent “second-wave” feminist, in a 1972 speech. Morgan passed away just days ago, but her spirit not only lives on; it has metastasized. The evidence?

A new survey has found that a striking majority of young Democratic women blame men for their woes. Only a minority of Republican women feel likewise, however. Moreover, the percentage of young men who view women negatively is even lower. This all illustrates a reality, too:

There’s much talk today about how misogyny is supposedly rife in contemporary America.

Yet misandry is actually far more common.

The Deseret News’ Jennifer Graham reported on the story Friday:

Scholar and author Camille Paglia has long taken women to task for their rhetoric about men. In a speech at the Seattle Public Library in 2017, Paglia said, “Women are well launched now. This reflex — snide put-downs of men that are everywhere — this has got to stop.” She went on to say that “feminists have to stop blaming men for their own unhappiness.”

Nearly a decade later, research from the Survey Center on American Life shows that the blame game is still going strong, at least among young Democratic women [tweet below].

According to the center’s report, a majority of Democratic women under the age of 50 agree with the statement “the challenges that women face in society are in a great deal due to the behavior or actions of men.”

The youngest Democratic women, ages 18 to 29, were the most likely to agree with the statement, at 66%.

In contrast, a quarter or fewer of Republican women said that men are responsible for the challenges women face.

Graham points out that this increased misandry is manifesting despite women’s manifold “successes.” Females now get better grades in school, attend and graduate from college at higher rates, and may soon hold most professional and managerial positions. What’s more, men still assume most of the risk in society, performing virtually all of the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs. (Interestingly, feminists never complain about women’s “under-representation” in these roles.) This is why 92 percent of workplace deaths involve men.

Graham also informs that the misandry phenomenon has appeared in Britain, too.

Continuing, Graham then tells us that this

“men ruin everything” ethos can be found on TikTok and other social media platforms, where young women blame men for everything from war to the death of Lindsay Clancy’s children.

“It’s not that they don’t care about white men. It’s that they actively hate them,” said Sasha Stone, a writer and podcaster who follows this trend.

But why do Democratic women, in particular, blame men for their problems?

Anatomy of an Irrationality

Addressing this question Thursday, the Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll identified four factors: ideology, demographics, social media, and Democratic Party influence.

Ideology: Leftist women have long been taught to conceptualize the world through an oppressor-oppressed (i.e., Marxist) lens. And men, of course, are the oppressors under the feminist paradigm.

This mentality breeds a misandrist hammer that sees every perceived problem as a misogynistic nail. As Carroll tells us, citing Survey Center data:

Sixty-six percent of Gen Z liberal women say they have personally experienced discrimination or mistreatment because of their sex, compared to just 34% of Generation Z conservative women. Liberal women of all ages are also more than twice as likely as conservative women to say that simply being a woman has made their lives more difficult, 69% to 33%.

There’s good evidence this is more paranoia than reality, too. Consider that older women (Baby Boomers) are significantly less likely than younger ones to say they’ve experienced sex-based discrimination. But do we really believe there was less anti-female discrimination when they were coming up 50 years ago? Note as well that women have long benefited from affirmative action (now “DEI”); being male, however, disqualifies one from this.

What makes more sense is that feminist-studies-indoctrinated women are more likely to interpret personal failures as patriarchal oppression.

Demographics

Then there’s demographics. Carroll notes that younger women are less likely to belong to institutions (e.g., church) that traditionally brought the sexes together. Gen Z is also less likely to date and socialize in general. And as he points out:

A husband is not “men.” A father is not “the patriarchy.” Neither is a brother, son, pastor, neighbor, or father coaching your child’s soccer team. Regular life among family, churches, neighborhoods, and community institutions supplies an endless stream of counterexamples to sweeping ideological claims about the opposite sex.

The fewer of those relationships people have, the easier it becomes to think of the opposite sex as an abstraction.

Put differently, the sexes now are less likely to be working together on the same team. They’re more likely to be on opposite ones, with women in negativity-spawning “female-dominant” internet spaces.

So instead of socializing, these young women are often on social media. “Algorithms have discovered,” too, relates, Carroll, “that resentment is extremely engaging.” But, he continues,

TikTok and Instagram do not provide a representative sample of American men.

They do not show millions of husbands getting up for work, taking children to school, walking the dog, fixing the sink, coaching Little League, caring for aging parents, or sitting on the couch watching television with their wives.

The takeaway: Social media can magnify anomalies and make them appear wider realities.

Party Power Lust

Finally, too, there’s the Democrats. Women constitute most Democratic voters, and the party seeks to hold and grow this voting bloc by selling grievance. Ergo, things such as talk of “toxic masculinity”; “mansplaining”; and incessant focus on, and misrepresentation of, intersex pay gaps. The message is: “The patriarchy is keeping you down. But vote for us — we’ll protect you.”

Note here that if women ever started voting as men do, the Democrats’ power would collapse.

Deeper Reasons

There are, however, other reasons for young Democratic women’s misandry. For one thing, a poster under the tweet above noted the following:

(I’ve written about the above on more than one occasion.)

Second, these leftist women’s negative opinion of men may have a basis in reality.

That is, the reality of dealing with leftist men.

There’s good evidence that a profound moral difference exists between so-called liberals and conservatives. Just consider commentator Peter Schweizer’s 2008 article, “Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows.” One finding: Liberals are far less likely to believe they have an “obligation to care for a seriously injured/ill spouse.”

Then there’s the evidence that leftist men commit the majority of sexual misconduct. In fact, by my calculation, approximately 90 percent of the men caught up in #MeToo scandals were liberals. (That’s likely why the movement fizzled, too.)

So what happens is that leftist women may avoid conservative men because they “know” they’re misogynistic. Exacerbating this is that, more than ever, many liberal women are consciously excluding conservative men from their dating pool. They then get burned and used and abused. (This, not to mention that since leftist men are less masculine, they don’t satisfy women’s deepest yearnings.)

Of course, the women can always try again. To supposedly maximize their chances of finding a good guy, too, they can look for someone even more devoted to “the cause.” Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s a case of people getting the relationships they deserve.

Then, of course, the thinking may be, “Wow, even the best of men — the ‘enlightened’ woke ones — are this bad. What a horrible sex!”

This leftist-bad-boy phenomenon was actually portrayed in the hit 1994 film Forrest Gump when Forrest’s love interest, Jenny — who was at the time dating a hard-core left-wing radical — was slapped by the ne’er-do-well (video below).

Unfortunately for most leftist women, however, there’s no conservative man around to deliver the abuser a beat-down. Second, unlike Jenny, most leftist women aren’t virtuous enough to dump the darkness and walk into the light — and into the arms of a man embodying it.