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It’s Time to Talk About the Trouble With Young Women
https://tomklingenstein.com ^ | March 25, 2025 | Scott Yenor

Posted on 03/27/2025 6:44:18 PM PDT by bitt

Nearly every demographic group moved noticeably rightward in America’s recent election. Even young women — among the most reliably left-leaning voting blocs — moved away from monolithic support for Democrats, but a significant gender gap of over 20 points persists between Gen Z women and men. Trump got only 33% of the 18-29 female vote in 2020; he got 40% in 2024. Compare this with 41% of the male vote in the same age group in 2020 and 49% in 2024.

Triumphalism at Trump’s victory should not obscure the long-term challenge posed by that gap.

This gender gap is often blamed on the rightward move of young men. Not so.

Women worldwide are moving left. “The trend in most countries has been one of women shifting left, while men stand still,” wrote John Burn-Murdoch in the Financial Times during fall 2024. Young men are drifting left by some measures as well, but with nowhere near the speed and enthusiasm of women.

Young women are the voter base of nearly every far-left political party and political cause in the modern world, from the German Left to Spain’s Socialist Workers Party. Estimates suggest that college-educated women made up nearly a third of the Democrat base in 2023, a proportion that has doubled in a generation. Young women, especially unmarried ones, broke hard for the Democrats in the United States in 2020 and 2022. They still broke for Harris in 2024, but not as hard. The Democrat Party is the single women’s party, as their media allies sometimes say.

Liberal young women support abortion on-demand, racial favoritism, gay rights, gun control, open borders, tax increases, and green energy. Brookings argues that young women are most interested in “sexual harassment, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and mental health problems.” A recent poll found that white women with college degrees have opinions far different from white men with or without college degrees and white women without college degrees. Unlike the other groups which are either sour or neutral on DEI and the war in Ukraine, for instance, white women with college degrees favor DEI by 31% and the war by 53%. They hate DOGE and Trump. They are hardly concerned about bread-and-butter issues like economic growth, unemployment or budget deficits. Young, credentialed women increasingly aspire to suppress speech in workplaces and through laws.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: dei; genz; leftist; liberalism; waronmen; women; youngwomen
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To: bitt

Women collectively as a group have always emphasized security over liberty. They never should have been given the vote but there was also no way they could have been deprived of it.

Women will vote for the safety of bondage every time, as long as they are provided for. Men demand freedom and they will take care of their own provision, thank you very much.


21 posted on 03/27/2025 7:11:55 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It isn’t going well for them- men are even better at being women than they are now lol- they feminized men, and now men are put competing them- the only men thst hang around them now are prissy temper riddled fembot men, and women secretly hate thst in men even though they demand thst men renounce their masculinity- the truth is thst many beta cucks did renounce their manhood and now the feminists absolutely loathe them for it.


22 posted on 03/27/2025 7:13:27 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Thanks to God. We need someone as influential as Charlie Kirk for the young women. The left knows if young women are corrupted, they’ll go on to corrupt their children (if they don’t abort them first).


23 posted on 03/27/2025 7:18:06 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Women collectively as a group have always emphasized security over liberty. They never should have been given the vote but there was also no way they could have been deprived of it.

Our government will collapse. An Arab Monarchy in a country like Saudi Arabia has a more sustainable form of government.

24 posted on 03/27/2025 7:22:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican; ViLaLuz; VTenigma; Secret Agent Man; ClearCase_guy; DIRTYSECRET

Ok, I’ll say the silent part out loud.

This isn’t the fault of schools, or universities, or the media…though they aren’t helping matters.

It’s the fault of fathers.

Or, more precisely, divorced parents and/or Dads who split after The Act. Girls in homes with absentee fathers are likely the victims here.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 17.6 million children, nearly 1 in 4, live without a biological, step, or adoptive father in the home.

Men need to stop with the selfishness, the faux manhood, and the idiocracy of running away from their children or getting a divorce because your wife put on a few pounds.

Marriage and children are a lifelong commitment. Men not treating those roles as being permanent is more caustic than any stupid stuff they teach at school.


25 posted on 03/27/2025 7:24:07 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DoodleBob
It’s the fault of fathers.

Okay. You are blaming men. When was the Great Society Program created? And who was the POTUS?

The Great Society programs, introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s, aimed to reduce poverty and racial injustice through social welfare policies. However, critics argue that some of these programs, particularly in welfare and social assistance, may have created incentives that weakened traditional family structures, including the role of fathers in low-income households.

How the Great Society Programs May Have Incentivized the State Over Fathers

1. Welfare Benefits and the "Man-in-the-House" Rule – Some welfare programs, like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), provided financial support primarily to single mothers. If a father lived in the home, families could become ineligible for benefits, discouraging marriage or cohabitation.

2. Expansion of Government Assistance – The programs expanded government support for low-income families, sometimes reducing the economic necessity of a two-parent household. This led some critics to argue that the government effectively replaced the financial role of the father.

3. Long-Term Dependency – Some argue that welfare policies created multi-generational reliance on government aid, making it harder for families to achieve financial independence and reinforcing single-parent households.

26 posted on 03/27/2025 7:29:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: bitt
Female anxiety and suspicion stoked, young women became less interested in marriage and motherhood than previous generations.

Depression among white young female liberals is the highest of any demographic in America.

Liberal women, especially highly credentialed liberal women, perceive themselves as victims of sexual harassment and sex discrimination more than their conservative counterparts.

Liberal politics is systematically lowering fertility rates and driving a wedge between the sexes.

27 posted on 03/27/2025 7:29:53 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
Liberal politics is systematically lowering fertility rates and driving a wedge between the sexes.

I predict things will stabilize in the long term. But it's going to be a rough couple of generations.

28 posted on 03/27/2025 7:35:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Just. Say. No.

Or, are you saying men are lemmings? That we can’t control ourselves and we are wards of the State?

And for the record, the divorce problem predates Great Society though LBJ certainly made matters worse.

The progressive era and the advent of socialism brought on by the Depression got that started. Marriage became disposable…it is reversible, it can be undone. It’s caustic to women, and quoth Marx and Engels, “(t)he bourgeois sees his wife as a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.”

Don’t worry son or daughter….you don’t need to do much discernment because you can always lawyer up like mom and dad did. Oh, and friends and family will happily applaud like a circus seal if you dump your spouse. There are Facebook groups and all kinds of social outlets geared toward starting life anew. Indeed, half of your friends and family are also in a state of mortal sin-it’s not like they’ll tell you to save your soul and work out the problem.

Then we have “research” showing that the kids turn out ok because they don’t see Mom and Dad fighting, that single parenthood can be good for the kids self-esteem, and other nonsense. Marriage isn’t considered an irreversible bond in our culture anymore. The Commandments are no longer binding. Going to hell for sex outside of marriage is a figment of the imagination. God will forgive you; actually God is a woman…

Sure…and the shots are safe and effective. Marx and Engels are smiling in hell. I get that some spouses are tough, and there is mental illness and substance abuse. Guess what?

That all existed prior to 1934. Divorce was shameful. It was a one-way ticket to hell. People worked out their problems. The same mindset that says “I’m against divorce except for cases of ____” is the same demonic mindset that says “I’m against abortion except in cases of _____.”

Divorce is THE most destructive element to the family and society….more than the gays, more than Ukraine, more than Soros. It is clear, yet few rail against divorce anymore. Changing the law is a band aid solution.

We need to get people into a pre-1934 marriage mindset. From there, children can grow up in a home that isn’t lead by hypocrites, where religion is seen as VITAL as opposed to a buffet where they can pick and choose morality.

29 posted on 03/27/2025 7:36:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: bitt

Malcolm X seems to have understood young AWFLs and what they’re about 60 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHhMabjWwg


30 posted on 03/27/2025 7:40:56 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: DoodleBob

Don’t forget evil women who purposely nuke the human ATM (the father), destroying the children’s relationship with their loving father, so she can have total control over their lives. Some will go as far as to destroy the boys as trans to get revenge on their husband. Who needs dad, except for money? That’s the message. Both parents can be evil.


31 posted on 03/27/2025 7:51:43 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: bitt

> young women are most interested in “sexual harassment, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and mental health problems.”

Especially the mental health problems.

Holy Crap, do they care about the MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS!

The longer they’ve been in university, the more likely they are to have a whole bathroom medicine cabinet full of pills to treat THEIR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS!!!!


32 posted on 03/27/2025 7:53:18 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I didn't leave the Democratic Party. It LEFT me, and keeps going further left. )
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To: DoodleBob
Men need to stop with the selfishness, the faux manhood, and the idiocracy of running away from their children or getting a divorce because your wife put on a few pounds.

Yeah, blame the men, using talking points from Feminists. Feminism was a tool of Communists and women fell for it.

We live in a misandrist matriarchy:

If a man can't pay child support, he's thrown in prison. If a woman can't pay child support the government forces taxpayers to give her money, housing, and even transportation.

A woman can kill an unborn child and the father has no legal right to stop her from killing his offspring.

A woman can kill an unborn child to remove her parental responsibility but the father can't remove his financial responsibility by any means.

A woman can lie about paternity of a child without fear of being charged for paternity fraud and the state can even force the cucked father to continue paying for a child PROVEN to not be his.

The state forces men to pay child support with zero confirmation that the money is being spent on the child.

A woman can falsely accuse a man of rape and when caught lying will face no charges.

33 posted on 03/27/2025 7:54:08 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: bitt

Repeal the 19th.


34 posted on 03/27/2025 7:54:57 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus
The longer they’ve been in university, the more likely they are to have a whole bathroom medicine cabinet full of pills...

The school is a symptom, not a cause. Where else were they supposed to go if not into institution of marriage?

Their other option was a cult but governments have been cracking down on those since the 1970s.

35 posted on 03/27/2025 7:56:24 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DoodleBob
It’s the fault of fathers. Or, more precisely, divorced parents and/or Dads who split after The Act.

Fact: About 70% of divorces are initiated by the woman, not the man. According to multiple sources. https://search.brave.com/search?q=who+most+frequently+files+divorce%2C+men+or+women%3F&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=f435d654011159b4b13741

36 posted on 03/27/2025 8:02:44 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

God or evolution (take your pick) designed young women of a certain age to want to find a good mate and make babies. Most of college-age women’s mental health problems stem from rebelling against this reality.


37 posted on 03/27/2025 8:03:46 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I didn't leave the Democratic Party. It LEFT me, and keeps going further left. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Wow…people calling themselves conservatives are now whining “I’m a victim!”

Virtually every claim of victimhood you list is is easy to avoid:

Don’t. Get. Divorced.

Don’t have sex outside of marriage.

Exercise some discernment.

Be a man.

It worked for hundreds of years. It’ll work now. And it’s less fem than victimhood.

Oh, and it’s God’s Law.


38 posted on 03/27/2025 8:06:04 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“The Great Society programs, introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s”

bkmk


39 posted on 03/27/2025 8:06:38 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Tell It Right

https://divorce.com/blog/who-initiates-divorce-more/

Reasons Why Women Initiate Divorce:

1. Unmet Needs
2. Deficient Life-Work Balance
3. Husband’s Unfaithfulness
4. Alcohol Addiction
5. Physical and Emotional Violence
6. Better Support System
7. Fewer Regrets

Almost all of these evaporate if men followed Ephesians:

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church [a]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are parts of His body.


40 posted on 03/27/2025 8:13:30 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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