Young women are trending liberal. Young men are not

[Demovictory9]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3675477-young-women-are-trending-liberal-young-men-are-not/


Young women are trending liberal. Young men are not

Young women are more likely to identify as liberal now than at any time in the past two decades, a trend that puts them squarely at odds with young men.

Forty-four percent of young women counted themselves liberal in 2021, compared to 25 percent of young men, according to Gallup Poll data analyzed by the Survey Center on American Life. The gender gap is the largest recorded in 24 years of polling. The finding culminates years of rising liberalism among women ages 18 to 29, without any increase among their male peers.


Several societal forces have conspired to push young women to the left in recent years, including the #MeToo movement, former President Trump, rising LGBTQ identification and, most recently, abortion policy. Slower-cooking trends in marital status and educational attainment have also nudged the needle.

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The rift between young men and women may widen further. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a precedent that had protected abortion as a constitutional right for nearly half a century. The ruling has energized young women. New survey data, released this week, shows that 61 percent of young women consider abortion a critical issue, compared with 36 percent of all Americans.

“I would always choose a candidate that’s pro-abortion,” said Rose Merjos, 21, a government major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut who is an avowed liberal. “Almost everyone either knows someone who has had an abortion or has had one themselves. This is something everyone can relate to.”

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[Demsrule86]

1. Gallup is the worst poll.

[yankee87]

3. Gallup is Reich wing

Gallup is very right wing polling system. Maybe happening, but need more evidence

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Not surprising

The Joe Rogans and Jordan Petersons know their audience.

[ismnotwasm]

7. +1

[Liberty Belle]

4. Young women need to quit breeding with young morons.

If young women would refuse to sleep with men who oppose reproductive rights, those who wish to oppress us would become extinct as dodos - Darwinian selection at its finest.

[GopherGal]

9. Everything I hear from self-identified incels...

makes me think "the women who declined to sleep with you were right!"

Kudos to the women who turned down these a-holes.

[Mariana]

10. The birth rate in the US has been trending downward for 15 years.

I'd like to think that indicates that more women are choosing not to have children with morons, but of course there's no way to know that.

[Victor_c3]

27. I was getting ready to say something along those lines

And, for the most part, they seem to be avoiding immature and moronic man-boys. Look at some of the statistics regarding relations and sex for people under 30. It’s something like 26% of American adults haven’t had sex within the last year!!

https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/nation-world/survey-says-over-1-in-4-american-adults-havent-had-sex-in-over-a-year-united0states-general-social-survey-sexual

[vercetti2021]

5. This isn't surprising

Online grooming from sources like 4chan, 8chan. Also online gaming (which is where I was targeted during the late 2000s) no surprise if one young man has a bad experience with one woman. They turn into hateful lil shits that resent everything.

But I went from young liberal man into mature liberal woman. So I'm happy I never fell for the horseshit.

But with the Andrew Tates, Walsh's, Shapiro's of the world. They'll continue to groom these boys into hateful lil nazis

[stopdiggin]

12. and, it's probably way too simplistic

but I have also thought about the appalling views and behaviors of a lot of our (male) sports figures. (and notice that I singled out male sports figures)

[Victor_c3]

28. As a 42-year-old divorced man, I've listened to some of these single male bloggers

Out of curiosity mostly.

These guys are all bitter and hateful towards women because most women don’t want to date these sorts of guys - and they can’t seem to figure out why. If you’re a guy in your mid 40’s whose overweight, works a low income job, doesn’t have a college degree, and are generally an asshole, women probably aren’t going to be attracted to you.

[brush]

6. Too simplistic even for right wing Gallup.

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There has to be ethnic/racial break downs for this to be taken seriously. We already know a large majority of white men lean right and have for years. We also know white women in the low 50 percentile voted for trump in 2020. How much has that changed if at all, or the liberal trend they say they see is made up of Black women, progressive white women, Asian American women, LBGTQ+ women, Latina and other POC women?

[onecaliberal]

8. My youngest daughter went on a date with this guy a few months ago. Ended the date early and

blocked his number from her phone. Yup, he was republican. She told me she was horrified by the first 15 minutes. It's so sad because although we live in California, it is a red area. She won't even consider dating a republican. It is a deal breaker.

[stopdiggin]

11. and .. the dude wasn't even smart enough to

gauge his audience (read the room). A lot of these - individuals - have become very 'confident' in their own - attributes and abilities. So, yeah - it was probably an excruciating couple hours. Sorry she had to go through that.

[Boomerproud]

17. The RWs I know just assume I agree with them.

[raccoon]

18. In my red as a baboon's ass area, a lot of them do that. Nt

[AZSkiffyGeek]

13. I read something this week about a MAGA dating app

The users were pissed because there weren’t any women on it.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. A republican

Is an automatic deal breaker. I dont want those scumbags near me,they're ghastly and gross and I hate narcissists.

[RedSpartan]

30. I see you've met my in-laws.

[Emile]

19. +1

[JI7]

15. Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are Heroes among many Males . People point to Kardashians getting a

lot of female attention but women look to them for things like fashion or other superficial crap. But on things that matter it's people lke Ruth Bader Ginsberg who is popular and girls dress up as her and as Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

[betsuni]

22. +1

[halfulglas]

16. At my age I don't get into a lot of "discussions" with other

women these days over the right to abortion and bodily autonomy but now that the reality is setting in about how much this really reaches out to so many facets of our lives, people are less reluctant to talk about it now, but for a while even using the term abortion seemed to turn off a lot of younger women than I. Of course so many of them don't remember pre-Roe and it never occurred to many of them that an established right could be taken away, although I remember very well. Having lived through the 50s and 60s as a young woman we always knew we had to be careful, but now it's even harsher now with these new laws. In those days if you had a miscarriage, it was a miscarriage. When I had one with my first pregnancy as far as I know nobody questioned if it was spontaneous.

Now there are drugs that can't be prescribed to females of child-bearing age. Doctors and emergency rooms are afraid to practice evidence based medicine. Of course, we have gotten used to insurance companies coming between us and our doctors, but now we have the state and every busybody who thinks they have a right to be concerned over every fertilized egg having more rights than the woman missing a period. I have 2 smart granddaughters, 1 in college, 1 in high school. The future is limited for them. There will be jobs denied to them because of their sex, going back 50 years because it might damage the fetus.

Now I'm fairly sure a number of women participating in polls are not going to admit to this being the number one reason to vote Dem, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is even the number 2 reason or number 3 reason for voting Dem. Having taken surveys you kind of hold back and not want to tell everything that's on your mind. I know I've had a lot of disappointments in the American public in the past 5 years, but I'm hoping that the younger people are awake enough to be aware of what they may be losing if we don't vote like it's a presidential year.

[Dorian Gray]

20. Young men

are getting "radicalized" by podcasts and web follows. Things like Barstool Sports, Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh. Varying degrees of toxicity, but all embracing that masculine ethos that is horribly dismissive of women and people different than them.

[betsuni]

21. +1

[Conjuay]

23. young men

have heard “liberal” as a bad thing. I think they are more tuned to the negativity that has been spewed for the last thirty years.

[betsuni]

24. Young white men are pessimistic and cynical.

Mythical socialist utopia fantasy or white nationalism.

[AntivaxHunters]

25. Odd given young people prefer Socialism over Capitalism

[betsuni]

26. No they don't.

The United States is a capitalist country. A few college kids who just read Marx have fantasies about socialism. They believe assholes who say Teh Democratic Establishment are corrupt and immoral. So what?

[Tom Rinaldo]

29. The headline conveys a false implication

Namely, that young men are shifting to the right. It doesn't say that, but it is easy to misread it to believe that young men are trending conservative as opposed to young women who are trending liberal. Buried a few paragraphs into the article it states "The share of men who identify as liberal has held fairly steady for almost 25 years, according to annual Gallup surveys."

Of course the younger women are correct and I wish younger men were keeping pace with them, but at least it seems they are no more conservative now than they have been for decades, and young people as a whole are trending liberal.

[stopdiggin]

31. thanks. for nailing down the real essense

of what is going on here.