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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: Carl Vehse

My thoughts exactly.


61 posted on 03/28/2025 12:19:20 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DoodleBob

80% of divorces are iniated by women and 90% of college educated women. When a judge tells you when you can see the Kids that’s it. Try going over without permission and see what happens.


62 posted on 03/28/2025 1:19:51 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ViLaLuz

There are some in my area that I’ll see at the gas station
or at Walmart ... I can’t imagine how their parents deal
with them - quite a few seem to go for the lowest of the lows


63 posted on 03/28/2025 1:32:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: bitt

They seem to take the educational brainwashing better, and the bro approach that probably won over more young men turned the young women off. Abortion is more of an issue for them too.


64 posted on 03/28/2025 2:22:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bitt

Past time.


65 posted on 03/28/2025 2:42:43 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: bitt

Toxic Femininity.


66 posted on 03/28/2025 2:52:53 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: bitt
I have a niece like this. Amazingly, they (educated young White women) really do believe they're "victims". She tried to tell me the gender pay gap was real. I told her that in my 25 years of working in corporate America, I had noticed no such thing....that more of my bosses by far have actually been women rather than men. She still didn't believe me.

I pointed out to her and her equally liberal dad, my brother in law, that corporations were greedy as hell and if they really could get away with paying women less for the exact same work, they would employ nothing but women. This made them pause because it puts them in the impossible situation of either saying women are not in fact being discriminated against OR saying corporations are not greedy and are not motivated by maximizing profit. It was hilarious watching them struggle with how to respond to that.

67 posted on 03/28/2025 3:01:54 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Tell It Right

I don’t think anybody would blame someone who divorces an unfaithful spouse. The truth is though that as far as divorces are concerned, infidelity is far and away not the leading cause of divorce, women are only slightly less likely than men to be unfaithful, and women initiate 70% of all divorces.

Oh by the way, spousal abuse also ranks very low in causes for divorce. Usually its feeling bored, held back, unfulfilled, etc.


68 posted on 03/28/2025 3:23:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DoodleBob

DoodleBeth is open on the forum. I thought I would point that out since it looks like you have completed your transition. Get your self some of that girl power.


69 posted on 03/28/2025 3:33:32 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Lurker; wintertime; vpintheak; Keyhopper

Re: women initiative most divorces.

I addressed that already. https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4307214/posts?page=40#40

Victimology is now a conservative trait I guess. And people here are chastising these young women who turn left/ blame everyone else for their problems.

That’s rich.


70 posted on 03/28/2025 3:37:04 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: MacNaughton
"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."

The last time I visited a local bar/restaurant there was this 20-something social butterfly of a white babe who appeared to be taking pics and video of unsuspecting (and some not) patrons enjoying their adult beverages and conversations with other patrons. She inserted herself among the guys from one end of the bar to the other with her hands and fingers working her phone, seemingly less interested in her own beer as she made her way around and then back to her seat, which just happened to be the one closest to the door.
71 posted on 03/28/2025 5:07:31 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: bitt

Politics and governance are emotional issues for them, while logic, history, common sense are anathema.


72 posted on 03/28/2025 5:10:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: bitt

Face it - if they go to bed with someone on the first date, and believe it when he says he’ll respect her in the morning, they’ll fall for anything....


73 posted on 03/28/2025 5:31:55 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: DoodleBob
My AF Lt.Col wife left me and our 4 kids, whose ages ranged from 7-15 at the time, because she wanted to “Eat, Pray, Love” whatever. Landed in a spot 1,800 miles away. One child still visits her because its court ordered but will forgo visits once 18 hits.

That silent part of yours is bull feces. You simps (Pointing at you) are worse than those entitled females.

74 posted on 03/28/2025 5:43:44 AM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: bitt

Meanwhile, more women are running major companies, and holding higher office in government, mostly due to DEI policies, not achievement level.
Anyone see the problem here?
NPR and PBS, anyone?


75 posted on 03/28/2025 5:57:51 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: DoodleBob
Btw, my ex was raised by non-divorced Christian conservative parents who promoted strong family ties so riddle me that.
76 posted on 03/28/2025 6:00:57 AM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: DoodleBob

You’ve got a point. But it’s not the whole story. It simply isn’t just because men aren’t living how they’re supposed to that is causing this. The odds are stacked against a natural and Biblical marriage and family. Satan gladly uses women’s emotional nature to tear it apart.
I’ve known many good men doing everything right (even from their ex-wives friends view) and the woman will still destroy their marriage and family over a whole host of reasons. Most reasons all boiling down to “their” happiness. This of course turns to unhappiness quickly.
It’s not a victim mentality if it’s true. Yes, men need to do their part and grow up and be men! But shame on you for trying to lay the blame of a broken culture and world at the feet of men.


77 posted on 03/28/2025 11:47:55 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: rollo tomasi
Btw, my ex was raised by non-divorced Christian conservative parents who promoted strong family ties so riddle me that.

Freewill.

Your situation is the opposite of what I listed - Men need to stop with the selfishness, the faux manhood, and the idiocracy of running away from their children.

You didn’t run away and you have the children.

78 posted on 03/28/2025 7:29:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: vpintheak

Thank you for your reply.

There is plenty of blame to be assigned to wives in failing marriages.

And sure, there are plenty of guys who have tried to save marriages.

But whenever divorce comes up here, there is a virtual conga line of virtue-signalers throwing the bride under the bus.

That is often accompanied by the 70% of divorce is initiated by wife’s statistic, as if it is “prima facie” evidence that it’s the broad’s fault.

That’s all great theater and probably makes the posters feel better. It’s also indicative of why the scourge of divorce isn’t going away.

Over the past 5 years, previously strong guys have lapped up the left’s victimology - rooted in Marxism. “The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.”

White men are now claiming reverse-discrimination for their problems. Guys can’t find moral girls and blame social media. Women under 30 are becoming MORE leftist and we blame the schools.

Maybe, if men of upstanding character called out their brethren for embracing modernity, looked in the mirror, eschewed the feminization of masculinity and shunned divorce as a panacea, we could turn this ship around. Beams and splinters.

Your mileage may vary. Thank you.


79 posted on 03/29/2025 7:15:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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