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Why young women went hard left, while young men leaned right
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:18 pm
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Bill Ackman quote tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years.
Good question. Most answers I've seen are either tribal ("women are emotional") or surface-level ("social media bad"). Neither traces the actual mechanism.
Let me try.
First, notice what Wanye pointed out:
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We've been told for a decade that men are "radicalizing to the right" and that this is dangerous. The actual data shows the opposite. Men barely moved. Women moved 20+ points leftward.
The story we are told is exactly inverted from reality. And when female leftward movement does get discussed, it's framed as progress: "women becoming more educated, more independent, more enlightened"
They'll tell you the graph shows enlightenment and progress. Wrong.
The graph shows is capture.
This Isn't Just America
Before getting into mechanism, something important: this pattern isn't only American. It's global.
The Financial Times documented it last year The gender ideology gap is widening across dozens of countries simultaneously. UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Poland, Brazil, Tunisia. Young women moving left on social issues, young men either stable or drifting right.
This matters because it rules out explanations specific to American politics. It's not Title IX policy. It's not #MeToo. It's not the specific culture war of US campuses. Something bigger is happening, something that rolled out globally at roughly the same time.
South Korea is the extreme case. Young Korean men are now overwhelmingly conservative. Young Korean women are overwhelmingly progressive. The gap there is even wider than the US. Contributing factors include mandatory military service for men (18 months of your life the state takes, while women are exempt) and brutal economic competition. But the timing of divergence still tracks with smartphone adoption.
Whatever is causing this, it's not American. The machine is global.
The Substrate
Start with the biological hardware.
Women evolved in environments where social exclusion carried enormous survival costs. You can't hunt pregnant. You can't fight nursing. Survival required the tribe's acceptance: their protection, their food sharing, their tolerance of your temporary vulnerability. Millions of years of this and you get hardware that treats social rejection as serious threat.
Men faced different pressures. Hunting parties gone for days. Exploration. Combat. You had to tolerate being alone, disliked, outside the group for extended periods. Men who could handle temporary exclusion without falling apart had more options. More risk-taking, more independence, more ability to leave bad situations.
(Male status still mattered enormously for reproduction, low-status men had it rough. But men could recover from temporary exclusion in ways that were harder for pregnant or nursing women.)
This shows up in personality research. David Schmitt's work across 55 cultures found the same pattern everywhere: women average higher agreeableness, higher neuroticism (sensitivity to negative stimuli, including social rejection cues). Men average higher tolerance for disagreement and social conflict. The differences aren't huge but they're consistent across every culture studied.
Not better or worse. Different selection pressures, different adaptations.
But it means the same environment affects them differently. Consensus pressure hits harder for one group than the other.
The Machine
Now look at what we built.
Social media is a consensus engine. You can see what everyone believes in real time. Disagreement is visible, measurable, and punishable at scale. The tribe used to be 150 people. Now it's everyone you've ever met plus a world of strangers watching.
And look at the timeline. Facebook launched in 2004 but was college-only until 2006. The iPhone launched June 2007. Instagram in 2010. Suddenly social media was in your pocket and in your face, all day, every day.
Great article
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:22 pm to hawgfaninc
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The most interesting data in this essay: the leftward shift of women is a global phenomenon. Which means there’s a global political aesthetic that women have glommed on to.
So much has been written about the commodification and uniformity of luxury over the last 15 years. A cool hotel in Seoul or London or Dubai looks exactly the same regardless of culture or borders. The same is now true of luxury beliefs globally, and women view the leftist political aesthetic as an aspirational luxury good worth wearing like a designer handbag.
Radical chic isn’t new, but it’s global, mass-marketed and easily adopted across borders and cultures now.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:24 pm to hawgfaninc
Emotional reactions versus logical thinking
It's not that complex
It's not that complex
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:25 pm to hawgfaninc
When given the right to vote, they are simply treated differently by government. Before you know it, they really fall for the "do not need a man government will protect me" propaganda.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:27 pm to hawgfaninc
Interesting.
Now what will be the effect, I wonder.
Now what will be the effect, I wonder.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:28 pm to hawgfaninc
They must move away from male thinking. If they remain, they remain with this patriarchy thingy. So of course it is chic and fashionable.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:28 pm to hawgfaninc
What I took away from all of this is that the UK has the most figs, which I already knew.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:28 pm to hawgfaninc
My theory is that women want to be judgmental, but not be judged.
In the mid 1990s when the LGB went with Hate is not a family value (BRILLIANT), women were drawn away slowly to that side as they could cleanly judge people without risk.
Before that they would openly judge a variety of moral things.
But when one side flipped it, it appealed to them.
Men meanwhile get angry when they are judged and see it as disrespect.
In the mid 1990s when the LGB went with Hate is not a family value (BRILLIANT), women were drawn away slowly to that side as they could cleanly judge people without risk.
Before that they would openly judge a variety of moral things.
But when one side flipped it, it appealed to them.
Men meanwhile get angry when they are judged and see it as disrespect.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:30 pm to hawgfaninc
Really solid post.
Post of the year so far.
Will dive in and reply later, but first wanted to thank you for the information.
Post of the year so far.
Will dive in and reply later, but first wanted to thank you for the information.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:40 pm to hawgfaninc
The family structure is failing and women have misplaced empathy.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 2:58 pm to Rex Feral
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The family structure is failing and women have misplaced empathy.
I was reading that somewhere a few days ago. Women have given up on trying to nurture a family, so they are nurturing and trying to fix society. And they can’t see it because they are entirely too emotional.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:01 pm to hawgfaninc
Easy answer, one is logic and reason based, the other is feelings based.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:07 pm to hawgfaninc
And it reminds me of the Bill Burr bit about men getting checked by society when making bad decisions. And men learning from it. Only takes one time for a guy to get his arse beat for knocking a protein drink out of a power lifter to learn not to do that.
Women don’t get checked like that. Women will go after a guy physically and emotionally and stand back watching with impunity because the guy can’t touch them. So women don’t get corrected from society for abusing men, so they go through life without ever learning or being corrected that they shouldn’t poke the bear.
Women don’t get checked like that. Women will go after a guy physically and emotionally and stand back watching with impunity because the guy can’t touch them. So women don’t get corrected from society for abusing men, so they go through life without ever learning or being corrected that they shouldn’t poke the bear.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:15 pm to hawgfaninc
Young liberal especially white women, learned from all the civil rights movements, black gay, the early women's, Chávez every kind of victimology that could be created
and you always have to push it further, otherwise it's lame Bush signed that one the disabled,,
and there is no chance to get attenten from virtue signaling. make money at it, be cool on school if you don't find something new, the trans thimg was too much,, its shifter sympathy won't be enough,, you have to die or kill.. its the mental illness without restraint and it ended up at this
Meanwhile, men in general are just sick of the whining
and you always have to push it further, otherwise it's lame Bush signed that one the disabled,,
and there is no chance to get attenten from virtue signaling. make money at it, be cool on school if you don't find something new, the trans thimg was too much,, its shifter sympathy won't be enough,, you have to die or kill.. its the mental illness without restraint and it ended up at this
Meanwhile, men in general are just sick of the whining
Posted on 1/17/26 at 3:16 pm to hawgfaninc
Yes, pretty good write up.
I assume the metrics below also pertain to the white male progressives that post here as well.
I assume the metrics below also pertain to the white male progressives that post here as well.
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women average higher agreeableness, higher neuroticism (sensitivity to negative stimuli, including social rejection cues).
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