It’s Young Women Not Men Who Are Radicalising
According to a piece in New Statesman by the pollster and strategy and communications expert Scarlett Maguire, the world isn’t facing an onslaught of dangerously disenfranchised and radicalised young men:
A smaller percentage of young men voted for Reform (12%) than the general population (14.3%). Actually, 18 to 24 year-old men were far less likely to have voted for Farage than every other age cohort of men, and young men were still overwhelmingly more likely to vote for Left-wing or liberal parties (68% voted Labour, Lib Dem or Green) than they were for a Right-wing party (22% voted Conservative or Reform). If voting for a populist Right party is indicative of a more radical mindset, then by this metric young men were some of the least radical demographic groups of the whole country.
Instead, it seems that young women are radicalising at a much higher rate and they are heading Left:
Nearly one in four (23%) of 18- to 24 year-old women voted for the Green Party at the last General Election, compared to just 6.7% of the general population (12% of young men voted for the Greens). Greens performed far better with young women than with any other key demographic (just 10% of 25 to 49 year-old women voted Green, and only 4% of 50- to 64-year-olds). In [2024]’s General Election, young women moved to the populist Left considerably more than young men moved to the populist Right.
The trend is accelerating:
Recent data from More In Common show that one in three (33%) of young women now say they will vote for the Green Party. Meanwhile, young men, far from being more Right-wing than the population as a whole, are as likely to vote Green as they are Reform (20%) with Reform still significantly underperforming with under-25 males relative to other age groups.
This trend, she says, is reflected in other countries, and started replacing a conservative trend among young women in 2015:
In 2019, 18 to 25 year-old women voted for Jeremy Corbyn at more than double the rate of the general population (65% to 32.1%), dwarfing the still considerable 46% of young men who did the same.
The big question is why. Maguire argues that young women in Britain think they’re getting a raw deal, which is odd given the dramatic feminising of modern Western society which has seen women dominating more and more professions (see this YouTube Triggernometry interview with conservative commentator Helen Andrews):
Britain’s young women seem to feel more alienated from their country than their male peers, and are more likely to think that the country is treating them unfairly compared to older generations.
But it’s not just down to factors like the cost of food and housing which women allegedly care more about:
One in three (31%) of 16 to 25 year-old women say the conflict in Gaza is in their top three issues, placing it above things like taxes and immigration (just 22% of young men say the same).
Behavioural differences, as well as personal values, could be significantly shaping the gender divide. Online media consumption, higher education (the gender divide is starkest between women with university degrees and men without them, with 56% of university students now women) and even relationship status all seem to drive the increasingly different political outlooks from young men and young women.
In the end though, Maguire says it’s not clear what the reasons are. What matters are the consequences:
The extent to which young women are moving to the populist Left is dramatic and doesn’t show signs of changing anytime soon. This crucial gender divide will not only continue to shape our politics but could also alter our social fabric. … The consequences of an increasingly radical generation of young women could be dramatic and long-lasting.
Michael Deacon in the Telegraph wonders if “the current radicalisation of young Western women may well be bound up in this notion that to be Left-wing is simply to be caring and kind. Even if such an impression is somewhat at odds with the history of actual socialist societies. Neither the Khmer Rouge nor the KGB were widely noted for their gentleness and sensitivity. Still, perhaps that was only because men were in charge. It may be that a female Pol Pot would have liquidated bourgeois class traitors much more compassionately.”
One cannot help but recall George Orwell’s 1984, when he described Winston’s views about women (Chapter 1):
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. But this particular girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most.
The New Statesman’s piece is worth reading in full.
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Excellent points by Sallust, and what a perfect quote from Orwell !
“Britain’s young women seem to feel more alienated …and are more likely to think that the country is treating them unfairly” Perhaps it’s because feminism has brainwashed them into feeling more entitled than ever before. Meanwhile in the USA:
More than half of self-described young white liberal women (56.3% of those between 18-29) say they’ve been diagnosed with a mental health condition. Compare that to conservative women in the same age group, where it’s only about a quarter. As reported by Metro Voice News, these disparities have caught the attention of lawmakers.
https://metrovoicenews.com/mental-health-crisis-study-shows-stark-political-divide-in-diagnosis-rates/
I think that this is a consequence of the education establishment having moved left (long march through the institutions) and the woefully inadequate education about the realities of life that has resulted.
Now in my 7th decade I have come to the conclusion that the post-WW2 socialist direction is not yet being checked by people who understand that ordinary people do not have the money to pay for it. Young people are creating the conditions for their own impoverishment but in doing this they are also helping to remove their generation by failing to have enough children.
The Marxists planned this, if it is to be headed off then we’d better get cracking.
People have been conditioned to expect the government to do…[whatever they can’t be bothered to do for themselves]. The government is the final point of appeal, and the first point of reparations.
Are you implying that women absorb their education with less critical thinking than men?
The ultra-left, touchy-feely, “progressive” women are in for a shock when the Muslims become the majority.
Still, maybe secretly that’s what they want.
As Jung put it: if you want to understand the real aims of people (not the advertised ones), look at the results of their actions.
Which is just a different way of putting “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:16)
Uptick for Jung and Matthew quotes in the same post.
Uptick for cerebral uptick.
When the muzzies take over the women will get more touchy-feely than they can handle.
Yes indeed, they’ll get it good and hard.
To be fair, quite a few, possibly several hundred thousand in the UK white underage girls have already had more touchy feely than they would like. Of course Jess Philips would disagree.
Perhaps they believed it when they were told they could have ‘everything’ and their subsequent disappointment means that they are now looking for a new ’cause’?
Is treating women the same as men ‘treating them unfairly’?
The left has successfully sold the line that the solution to all problems is socialism, and the reason that socialism doesn’t appear to be working is because not enough socialism. Very difficult to argue against such a circular argument.
But the net result is that the discontent that socialism creates only makes them believe in it more firmly.
In the glorious green future of absolute zero, when energy, food, clothes, cosmetics and travel are all rationed, green neophytes of all the 37 genders might conclude the patriarchy that brought us the National Grid, tractors, retail parks, chemistry and budget airlines wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
And mobile phones, affordable data plans and the Internet, don’t forget them.
Or the abilty to afford your energy bill
Or the right to speak your mind.
When given a choice between dolls and toy cars, female monkeys picked up the dolls and males played with the cars. Humans tend to do the same. The female mind is more interested in emotional subjects and finds that saving the planet and animals important but males would more often like to have something with wheels and are interested in how things work. Obviously the Greens and Labour don’t know the facts and figures and this suits young women.
Probably why the majority of social workers are women and as we often see, putting them in a high level police uniform is a disaster.
But the Liberal Woke Progressive will think giving the boy a car and the girl a doll is “offensive” as it doesn’t take into account their inherent gender.
There is an alternative view.
Men know that their most important concern is relationships. Without them they have nothing. Yet they are impossible without having something to offer, something that the other party finds attractive.
For many men, gaining STEM expertise, and the resulting wealth, provide a well tested path to happiness.
It’s much better than being unskilled and being laid, by either sex.
Just my opinion, but I think that social media has and continues to play a large part in the radicalisation of young women. With talk of social media bans for the under 16s, the left may find this tactic backfires in the medium term.
Seriously, how demented have these people been driven in order that a quarter of them intend to vote Green? Incredible.
Well, in America they are demented enough to create a fraught, intense, noisy prolonged protest atmosphere and then drive their quite large and heavy SUVs at armed law enforcement officers and expect to be treated with kid gloves. Which is demented. And yes, incredible.
I expect few Green voters have any worthwhile knowledge of Physics or Chemistry, and how their physical laws restrict what can be pursued in the Real World.
I state this with some confidence as it’s true for most of the population. 🙂
I get irrationally angry inside whenever I look at Toonberg
It’s the power of the sisterhood in action.
With young women, if you have a strong leader of a friendship group they will all follow the policies of the leader, or risk being ostracised with the negative consequences that will affect your whole life. Sending someone “to Coventry” is a very powerful incentive to conform.
It starts very young, at school where one girl will be extremely popular and the others all crowd around her. What we are seeing is basically the politics of the playground amongst young women who have never really grown up.
Notice it is “young” women. The GREEN Message is full of what young people are easily fooled by. They have no clue what communism is, why it is rejected and fails everywhere, and why far from being some kind of equality and fairness, it is nothing but TYRANNY. The “young” are easily drawn in by talk of “inequality” and billionaires having all the money. But they never think “when did a poor person last offer me a job”? —–So they listen to this fantasy politics that claims to have all of the solutions when in fact it has NONE, and we know this because it has all been done countless times and always ends up in a total mess with citizens fleeing whenever they can, like across the Berlin Wall from east to west, from misery to prosperity and from tryarrany to freedom. ——-The “young” fail to see that all these people are doing is changing their name from RED to GREEN, but they are still the very same communists.
I call BS on this one. Nobody knows who really voted for which party candidate because of secret ballot. The article itself is based on polling, no further details provided, and conjectures about the reasons for polling results based on what the guy who’s conjecturing considers plausible. To use a historic example, the communist Kurt Tucholsky was convinced that women were natural enemies of the cause because of their natural disposition to admire soldiers and especially, officers or – more generally – power. His constant accusation was that women’s desire to bask in power and to boast about the power of their partners would eclipse their sense of fairness and justice. That’s based on the same kind of pre-existing Women are just deficient! narrative, and was also without any proof beyond anecdotes or statistics about anecdotes. The methodology is also as usual: Someone who’s a priori convinced that property X must be what makes the important difference. He thus groups a population in a X and a not X group and looks for difference. As differences are invariably found, it’s then claimed that these would prove the a priori existing hypothesis. But any such grouping for a one-off ‘study’ would… Read more »
It is inkeeping with one of the narratives being pushed by this site: that women are generally crap and to be scapegoated for all things wrong in society, plus it appeals to the anti-women sentiment of most of this site’s readership. Example, which you surely cannot have missed from the many comments on here, past and present: any woman in a position of leadership who messes up or makes a bad decision, it is obviously due to the fact she’s a woman. Her sex made her do it, like having a vagina is some sort of handicap. By contrast, her male counterparts, be they CEOs or Chief Constables, who have demonstrated anti-white discrimination, embraced the woke mind virus in their organization, who favour/appease Muslims ( see West Midlands Police for a recent example ) or just balls things up, their male sex never gets a mention. It’s entirely irrelevant. Nobody’s pointing at and accusing him of being a ” DEI hire”, are they? A forever accusation to undermine any female in a position of authority. Therefore, you are surely an anomaly on here in that you’re the only man who can look at this article and critique it with anything… Read more »