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Posted on 03/08/2026 5:57:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you were to ask legacy media or many prominent Democrats, they’d tell you that young men are getting radicalized. Yes, many young men are isolated and pessimistic about their futures. Some are falling down content rabbit holes that normalize misogyny and antisemitism. But while men are listening to provocateurs such as Nick Fuentes to cope with their low societal cachet, young women are getting radicalized too.
There’s evidence that men have actually stayed relatively stable, while women have lurched left with the widespread adoption of social media and the collapse of marriage. Most concerningly, a new study shows that it’s not incels or deadbeats living in basements who are more tolerant of political violence. It’s women.
Between their romanticization of alleged murderer Luigi Mangione and their dangerous intimidation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, many young women today are consumed by political causes. All over TikTok, young women are documenting their political rage for issues that have nothing to do with their immediate family, bills, or other priorities. And for the most part, there is little tolerance for other viewpoints. Egged on by radical professors on college campuses, some women would even theoretically support the assassinations of their ideological opponents.
Asked by her professor for a hot take on Charlie Kirk’s death, a female student at Oberlin College reports that she said, “We need to bring back political assassinations. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion.”
Free discourse, which inevitably allows both good and bad ideas to spread, is disliked disproportionately by women. Female students are more censorial than male students, according to a 2022 analysis from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. This was regardless of whether the speaker was liberal or conservative. However, female students opposed platforming conservative speakers by an especially large margin compared to male students, the study showed. Almost 60% of women said promoting an inclusive society was more important than protecting free speech, while 71% of men felt the opposite, a 2019 report by the Knight Foundation found.
Anyone who has experienced cancel culture knows it’s just another word for the policing of social mores, something that women instinctively do. But do women foster inclusion through gentle influence? Though they lack physical leverage, women today use social punishment via shaming, stigmatizing, or by leveling allegations with life-ruining potential (but discouraging due process).
According to a recent study, women in the U.S. are willing to go further to preserve what they believe to be proper norms. Conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers, the study found that under certain conditions, women were more likely than men to express support for political violence. Challenging the cultural assumption that the fairer sex opts for diplomacy over confrontation, the study shows that women would support vigilantism to spur political change or eliminate people they deem to be threats. Female respondents were approximately 21% more likely than males to express some justification for murdering New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and nearly 15% more likely to justify murdering President Donald Trump.
We know from history that women are just as capable as men of encouraging violence against ideological enemies if they’re convicted enough about the righteousness of their cause. Many notorious perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 were women.
Psychologically speaking, women are more susceptible to consensus pressure. Women average higher on agreeableness and neuroticism, or sensitivity to negative emotions including social rejection cues, while men average higher on tolerance for disagreement and social conflict. Women are also more empathetic, which, combined with their inclination toward herd mentality, means they tend to lean more liberal. The rise of technology, and specifically the smartphone, has multiplied the effect.
Now with the world at our fingertips in seconds, people are getting caught in online echo chambers that affirm their beliefs. Social media has become a negative feedback loop, especially for women. Platforms abound with women lamenting and “raising awareness” for things outside their control, drumming up upset and panic that exponentially grows as the algorithm feeds it to more women. Rinse and repeat. And though there are a plethora of content corners on the internet, women are getting stuck in collective outcry, which is being rewarded by companies and institutions that take them seriously. A lot of content serves to egg on women to take out their cameras and either capture or become the next viral moment, too.
Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Minneapolis after antagonizing him and then accelerating her car toward him as her partner filmed it. In response, many women posted incitements to violence against agents online. While we should have a debate about ICE training, many female TikTokers seemed shocked to learn that lethal force could be used if they interfere with an active federal law enforcement operation. But social media has made them believe that this is all a game. They think they can obstruct armed officers for the thrill of fighting “oppression,” then press pause when they’ve decided they’re done playing. But it doesn’t work that way. Real life has real consequences.
A large part of the female influencing world insists to impressionable screen-addicted women that every political issue demands a DEFCON 1 reaction. They are convinced that everyone else should be just as worked up as they are, even at the expense of their families. I’ve seen firsthand how apolitical creators who’d rather mind their own business are scolded in the comments for not making political statements, almost always on progressive issues. It is healthy to be detached from things that don’t affect your home or your zip code. That attitude was typical of most Americans before the social media age.
The NCRI data indicate that doomscrolling on social media is sowing revolutionary thinking in young women, contradicting the prevailing narrative that mainly young men are being primed online to legitimize political violence. To be sure, men are statistically more likely to be physically aggressive and get arrested for violent crimes at higher rates. They’ve faced great societal headwinds too — from a romantic recession to dropping college enrollment — that you’d think would make them ready to rage. And yet, the study suggests that women have reconciled the possibility of domestic terrorism with a law-abiding civil society, irrespective of political affiliation, more than men have. They’re getting hooked on online narratives that glamorize political violence as heroism rather than what it really is: fundamentally incompatible with a functioning republic.
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...and to think that Skunk Cabbage was on the brink of obtaining power in November, 2016.
Exactly correct. It is what it was designed to do.
That’s right and it’s been a long time coming. Greedy and unprincipled Republicans played into it long ago...otherwise it could never have succeeded
> Did you ever try to have a discussion with a Liberal... <
I’ve told this story before.
I once went to a dinner party given by a liberal acquaintance of mine. Nice lady. Or so I thought.
The conversation was moving along nicely Then someone at the table made an innocent remark about Trump. It’s wasn’t political or ideological in any way.
Our host immediately went crazy. She jumped up from her chair and began waving her hands - screaming about Trump and anyone who supported him. It was like being in a horror movie.
Everyone became very uncomfortable. I actually thought about leaving. But the desert was cheesecake. I like cheesecake.
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“Social media has become a negative feedback loop...”
No, it’s a positive feedback loop - it reinforces whatever views you already have.
Which is not good. It leads to a runaway, unstable system. .
I’m guessing Caroline is not an engineer.
Yep. What happens when you tie the feedback on an Operational Amplifier back to the + input?
There’s nothing to figure out. When females realize they can act outside of norms, rules, and laws that are civilized behavior, they will.
Go ahead and try to hit or slug a woman that has kicked you in the gonads, slapped and hit you (or worse). See what results. The outcry from most people, including many here, will be fierce.
“Everyone became very uncomfortable”
A common occurrence around unhinged libs.
My step sister is a nurse and decided to relocate from Florida to northern cali in the 80s....she’s now woke of course.
AFTER covid she said she wouldn’t fly back for Thanksgiving unless everybody agreed to wear masks at dinner.
The whole family pretty much just laughed at her.
When libs get your a certain point there’s no reasoning with ‘em.....nowadays I don’t even try.
Liberalism is an infantile mental disorder. No cheesecake is worth that.
Bearded, hairy-chested liberal wimmins have become the most angry and hate-filled species on the planet.
I can understand their position. If you’ve already had to endure a progressive screed, you may as well get some cheesecake out of it as compensation.
Many women are much bigger and stronger than men these days.
They have killed their own children.
😁 Been there. At least she didn’t shove her chair back against the wall and slam the door on her way out!
There’s no way I’d be able to enjoy it.
I have some relatives like this. A couple are on the No Contact list.
I believe this.
The cruelest Concentration Camp commandants in Nazi Germany were invariably women.
Then you have the fact that when I hear about an altercation at a fast food place, it’s usually black women.
My wife just ledt a note on the refrigerator door that said “This isn’t working”. I opened the fridge, it’s working fine.
People talk about differences between Men and Women — and that is something worth talking about.
But I’d like to see more discussion about people who come from broken homes. I bet a lot of the ANTIFA types have divorced parents. No father in the home. Angry, bitter single mother. I think there is a bad feedback loop there. It probably affects females more than males, but I bet plenty of the men who are out there protesting ICE also come from some form of broken home.
Yup.
I’m with you on this one.
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