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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The true communists always believed in killing those who disagreed with them.
Precisely.
Ya got me started. National Geographic film-PBS-Africa. A couple of professors placed a stuffed leopard amongst a bunch of monkeys. They all scrambled up the nearest tree. Took awhile but when they noticed it wasn’t moving they slowly(males) came down and approached it. Once they knew it was not a threat they all threw rocks at it building up into a big frenzy. The professors pointed out that it was the females who were most out of control and violent towards the stuffed anima.
You figure it out.
Thérèse Defarge has entered the chat.
Could that explain why black women get knocked around so much?
In any discussion, both sides need to recognize objective standards or it will descend into chaos and nothing will be resolved. You cannot discuss anything with people who won't observe standards.
Liberals have placed themselves beyond discussion and they think that means THEY have an unassailable position and that they have the right to violence.
Did you ever try to have a discussion with a Liberal...(or a drunk or a mental defective, for that matter)?
Humans tend to be an innately violent species. Violence always seems like a swell idea — until you get punched in the mouth. After that, violence starts to lose its appeal. But women almost never get punched in the mouth. So they have a greater tendency to think that violence is always the solution.
Fanny Kaplan comes to mind.
Bitches be crazy !
“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.”
- Winston, in George Orwell’s 1984
“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.”
George Orwell, 1984.
Rats.!! I’m such a s-l-o-w typer. :(
The entire Communist algorithm is pointed directly at women. They are susceptible to nurturing the helpless and mothering which they use to manipulate them. Men are not as easily fooled.
it is written: “And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.”
All I EVER needed to learn about the power of women was when I was in tenth grade.
I was a punk rocker (still am) who didn’t wear make up, just jeans, pand shirts, and strangely — most of my friends were the cute punk rocker boys (this was back in the 80s.)
One day during an English class — the teacher had left for a moment and back then, it wasn’t a federal crime to leave teenagers unattended for a few minutes.
A group of girls that I knew sat around me, the ring leader, a fat preppy girl, said, “You would be so pretty if you wore makeup.”
I said I was just too lazy to wear it.
They then proceeded to take out their nasty purses filled with dirty eye make up cases, blush, etc — and proceeded to force a makeover on me. The teacher, who I was very close with, came back in during forced make over.
Wrote up all of the would be makeup stylists for detention.
When they complained that I didn’t get in trouble, the teacher laughed. “She’s going to make her victim statement.”
The would be stylists got a week of after school detention.
I never was made over again. I still don’t wear make up unless I have to.
Strangely, I also look about twenty years younger than most of my class mates... and my skin is great. Honestly, I think makeup is awful and damages the skin more than it enhances anything.
During the French Revolution, the women were the most bloodthirsty…cheering for blood at Madam Guillotine.
In many ways, American history, the Constitution, and basic Judeo-Christian morality used to be the recognized standards in this country. Few people seem to realize that Critical Race Theory and "woke" ideology completely de-legitimize those existing standards. All were supposedly created by white men, for white men only, and are therefore absolutely corrupt and illegitimate. The logical outcome of accepting the "woke" value system would be the complete destruction of American government, culture and society...
That could be some of it, but remember that women get sexually assaulted at far greater percentage than men do, and that can be pretty violent. I think what we have is suppressed rage at being smaller and weaker than half the population. It's almost like Napoleon syndrome.
This is a cultural problem. We have all been taught crap like “never hit a girl”. As time passes they learn that they can get away with crap that men would never get away with ... a double standard. It still exists ... and here we are.
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