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Posted on 04/18/2026 7:56:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Are women okay? The answer, clearly, is no. Women are not okay. The young ones, especially.
This week, Britain’s New Statesman introduced us to “the Angry Young Women,” an expanding coven of radical, unstable, men-hating, activist women. This is maybe the first time a mainstream outlet in the UK has acknowledged the precipitous leftward drift of young women and the major effects it’s having on British society: on politics, culture, relations between the sexes—pretty much everything you can think of, really.
Whether it’s Israel’s war in Gaza, the “Climate Crisis,” the Patriarchy, racism, or the prospect of a Reform government forcing them out of the workforce and back into the home, there to be tethered to the stove and the marital bed for the rest of their days, Britain’s Angry Young Women are “teetering on the edge of an anxiety attack” at any moment.
They talk about how their “bones ache” at the thought of all the suffering in the world. They use portentous, largely meaningless phrases like “the viscerality of the feminine wound” to describe the pain and “trauma” of being a woman today, which includes, prominently, dealing with men who value them only as sex objects and have repellent views about immigrants, carbon emissions, and the rights of transgender people. The Angry Young Women say they want “revolution”: “systematic change.” Racked by chronic fatigue and endometriosis, they find satisfaction in protest, nonbinary comedy evenings, and pursuing “moral missions.” But even then, that satisfaction is fleeting. “You’ve got to be pessimistic,” one young woman says. The point isn’t to be happy; it’s about being angry and engaged.
It is, as The New Statesman puts it, “impossibly bleak.” Women aged 18–30 are head and shoulders the most progressive demographic in Britain today, and also the most downbeat about their future and everybody else’s. The more objectively better a young woman’s circumstances—the higher her social class and earnings—the more likely she is to believe the odds are stacked against her. Young middle-class white women are more likely than minorities to believe British society is “systemically racist.”
We’re accustomed to hearing about the impossible bleakness of the lives of young men today—gooners, dropouts, incels led astray by the Pied Piping of influencers like Andrew Tate, looksmaxxers, and Twitter trolls—but to hear that young women are suffering just as much, are just as detached from reality, and are just as hopelessly embroiled in surrogate activities is something of a revelation. For anybody on the ground, in the trenches of this new reality—a man in his 30s like me, for example—it’s quite clear that young women are, well, f–ked up in a way that young women weren’t f–ked up 20, 15, or even 10 years ago. But this reality has taken a long time to coalesce in the media and popular consciousness. For helping that to happen in a country that’s still as hopelessly captured by leftism as Britain is, The New Statesman deserves some credit.
This isn’t a problem that’s confined to the UK. Numerous polls and studies show young women in the US have moved significantly to the Left over the last 10–15 years, and that the much-vaunted “polarization” that’s taking place in American politics is being driven almost entirely by women. Men are staying pretty much where they were before, somewhere to the right of center.
Gallup polls, for example, show that liberal self-identification among women aged 18–29 has risen from 28 percent between 2001 and 2007 to 40 percent between 2017 and 2024. Women are embracing hardline, even extreme, positions with gusto. A study from this year by the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University found women were 21 percent more likely than men to justify the murder of a political figure they didn’t like.
If you paid attention to the murder of Charlie Kirk and what came after, you’ll be well aware that so many of the worst responses were from women. Just ordinary women: students, schoolteachers, academics, yoga instructors on Instagram, and civil servants—all gloating about the cold-blooded slaughter of a husband and father who simply happened to have political views they didn’t like.
The real question is why this is happening. It’s easy enough, once the problem has been identified, to think about and predict the effects, few of which are likely to be good. What we really want to know, or should want to know, is what’s driving this change, so we can do our best to stop it.
As with today’s problems with men, the main culprit that’s usually fingered is the internet and social media. It’s obviously true that the ubiquity of the internet and social media is playing a serious role in driving people further away from the center, on both sides, but this doesn’t explain why women are coming off so much worse than men. Social media may very well grip and play with women in different ways than it does with men—women generally care more about social comparison than men, for example, and about being judged against their peers for social approval—but other factors are clearly at work as well.
One consistent theme throughout The New Statesman article, although it’s never treated as a cause, is mental illness. Not only are women significantly more likely to be mentally ill than men—this is well established—but mental illness is robustly associated with being a leftist. I’d be inclined to say leftism is itself a form of mental illness, but we can park that stronger claim for now and just deal with the association.
Recent surveys from the US have shown that 26.4 percent of females reported a mental illness in the last year, compared to 19.7 percent of men. Just over 7 percent of women reported serious mental illness in the last year, compared to 4.8 percent of males. Women consistently display higher rates of “internalizing” mental disorders—anxiety, depression, PTSD—than men.
Studies have shown, variously, that left-wingers are more mentally ill than conservatives, that they’re unhappier, that they’re more neurotic and emotionally unstable. Narcissism and psychopathy have also been associated with “anti-hierarchical aggression”—i.e., the leftist desire to destroy society—and Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy predict “virtuous victimhood signaling,” meaning the kind of claims to moral superiority that accrue to the persecuted in today’s leftist worldview.
In my new book, The Last Men: Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity, I link male hormonal changes, and specifically a civilizational decline in testosterone, to the parlous state of masculinity and of politics, which refuses to satisfy fundamental male urges and relegates men to the status of second-class citizens. Similar havoc is being played with women’s hormones for similar reasons, with no less dramatic effects. Women’s worsening mental health is caused in large part by the massive toxic burden of the modern world, from the low-quality food we eat and the harmful chemicals that are everywhere—herbicides, pesticides, plastic chemicals, nonstick coatings, fire retardants, and pharmaceuticals—to our addiction to screens and chronic exposure to blue light and electromagnetic radiation.
Here are some facts about leftism, the brain, and women to conclude. Leftists have been shown to have smaller amygdalae than conservatives. The amygdala is a region of the brain associated with threat perception. Differences in threat perception go a surprisingly long way toward explaining fundamental differences between left- and right-wingers—between seeing a fighting-age Syrian man in a boat as a poor refugee to be welcomed with open arms or as a dangerous invader to be kept out with force if necessary. Research has shown that just three months on hormonal contraception can change the structure and function of a woman’s amygdala. About 14 percent of girls aged 15–19 are on hormonal contraception in the US, and nearly 17 percent aged 20–29.
I’m not saying that birth control is causing young women to spiral out of control and become rabid leftists. Or, rather, I’m not saying it’s the only thing that’s doing it. What I am saying is that we need to take the biological roots of our present crisis much more seriously, for men and women. For us all.
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I watched a video about areas of the brain being active while observing the behavior of others when punishment was performed. The ‘empathy’ area and ‘pleasure’ area were both being monitored during an experiment where people received an electric shock - both when they were being honest or cheating.
The difference between men and women’s responses were stark. For women, their empathy response was high when somebody that didn’t deserve a shock received one, BUT their response was the SAME for those that were cheating - they had empathy for both.
For men, they displayed empathy for the honest but NONE for cheaters, in fact, the pleasure area of their brains became far more active for those shocked while cheating. IOW - if it was deserved there was no empathy for them.
We now have a society where women are in all sorts of authority roles. Are they making decisions based on such phenomena? It would seem so. I don’t believe any trait is universal - but the results of the experiment demonstrated a clear statistical difference between men and women’s responses.
Younger women have been told they’re “special” their entire lives, along with “patriarchy” and “men are useless”, all while social media feeding their egos - to the point of mass narcissism. The result is a generation that desperately wants to present virtue, without having to actually DO anything. They “care” (empathize) with all the right causes; immigration, systemic racism, racial injustice, climate, etc., even to the point where they’re putting themselves in danger.
It is clearly mental illness. Progressivism pushes them there.
100%
It’s all about THEIR happiness. Everything else be damned. They endlessly talk about be objectified but have been exposed of exactly the same respective to men, success, and what they can get from them.
We could go back to Sophocles but the warnings ramped up in Europe in the 1800s:
"There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things–their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Reading 19th and 20th century fiction... women has always been difficult
If so they are all insane. The marital bed and children and the kitchen?! Most men want nothing to do with these harpies.
Imagine what it was like for women only one hundred years ago….. two hundred years ago….. five hundred years ago!
Bottom line is this is all rebelling against God and the demons trying to overcome Gods curse against women because of the first sins.
Sharia law will stop their whining.
100% true. They wanted the sexual freedom that they perceived men having and they got it. In the process they destroyed those things that made them special and priceless as women. They became merely whores. Male attitudes in female bodies. And few men want to marry that. Have sex with it, yes (because it is easy), but marry it, no.
Yep ... that is why, for example, leftists invent names for "generations". Where no groups exist naturally, leftists create groups and persuade normal people to identify with said groups.
Sex objects? Pink hair...facial jewelry...tattoos...obesity..? Hard pass.
To a greater degree than men, women will internalize anecdotes shared by other women. Social media brings them vast numbers of stories about the perfidy of men (Millennials hardest hit), which they love to read and mentally add to their own lived experiences.
It changed the nature of it.
What you are describing was best collected and analyzed by Joseph Daniel Unwin in his 1934 treatise, Sex and Culture, in which his general observation was that every empire he studied eventually liberalized female sexuality and then collapsed within thee generations thereafter.
The Pill was a nuclear bomb on society.
And I doubt you'd disagree.
I don’t.
Yes bra burning helped them out as time passed huh.
Leftists have been shown to have smaller amygdalae than conservatives—the region of the brain associated with threat perception. Differences in threat perception [may] explain fundamental differences between seeing a fighting-age Syrian man as a poor refugee to be welcomed or as a dangerous invader to be kept out with force if necessary. Research has shown that just three months on hormonal contraception can change the structure and function of a woman’s amygdala.
Very insightful and accurate observation from de Tocqueville IMO, from almost 2 centuries ago.
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