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Why So Blue: Liberal Women are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
Institutue for Family Studies ^ | 02 13 2025 | Grant Bailey and Brad Wilcox

Posted on 02/14/2025 5:04:23 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives.

Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present?

Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is. Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than their conservative peers. Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being “completely satisfied” with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women did. Young conservative women are three times as likely to report being very satisfied with life compared to young liberal women. Moreover, liberal women are two to three times more likely to report they are “not satisfied” with their lives, compared to conservative women. And consistent with previous research, the effect of ideology on young women’s happiness held up to controls for age, education, race, and income.

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KEYWORDS: dating; happy; liberal; lonely; manosphere; mgtow; pua; redpill; women
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1 posted on 02/14/2025 5:04:23 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

They score poorly on the matrix.


2 posted on 02/14/2025 5:08:01 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m in MA where just about all the women are Liberal. I almost never encounter a woman who seems at all happy. They all seem perpetually angry and miserable.


3 posted on 02/14/2025 5:08:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Libloather

Lesbians are awful depressed and self absorbed people. IF they were as flexible as their cats, they would not date.


4 posted on 02/14/2025 5:09:35 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: yesthatjallen

This one is easy.

Most liberal women are unattractive.

Most conservative women are attractive.

Could it be that women become liberal because more of them suffer from rejection, and more conservative woman experience being loved and accepted?

Just wondering......


5 posted on 02/14/2025 5:09:35 AM PST by Arlis
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To: yesthatjallen
Liberal women bought into the lie that motherhood is captivity and marriage is slavery. Some bought into the equivalent lie that motherhood is ok as long as no dirty man is in the child's life.

Also, such lies as all she needs is her career.

They have been programmed to follow lies and misery ensues. It's no great mystery.

6 posted on 02/14/2025 5:09:53 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: yesthatjallen

gullible ... it’s genetic ... always have been ...


7 posted on 02/14/2025 5:10:25 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liberalism is a mental disorder.


8 posted on 02/14/2025 5:11:32 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: bankwalker

Yep. Just ask Adam about the apple scandal.


9 posted on 02/14/2025 5:13:18 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: protoconservative

BECUASE THIER MENTALLY ILL


10 posted on 02/14/2025 5:13:32 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: yesthatjallen
I will speak very broadly here but I suspect that lib women have fewer family, boyfriend, and church connections and seem on the whole disinterested in having children. Like it or not, these are the things that contribute towards contentment and stability and, frankly, thinking of others than yourself.

They are unmoored and isolated with plenty of rage in their hearts for a variety of reasons ... this is not a recipe for joy.

11 posted on 02/14/2025 5:13:46 AM PST by Lizavetta
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They’re looking for something that doesn’t exist. They pour their efforts into finding solutions for things that aren’t happening, like Global Warming. Even if those things were happening, the efforts of an individual are irrelevant. Yet, they’ve been told their whole lives that “THEY” will make difference. Their knowledge of politics and essential oils are critical to human survival. So, they think, and plot and do...and nothing changes. How depressing. Further, if their efforts had an effect, how would they know because the demands of their cult are never ending. Yep, suicide is the answer, or castration to prevent a future where...uhm, people all die? Wait! What?


12 posted on 02/14/2025 5:14:15 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: yesthatjallen

Because they are mentally deranged liberals. That is why. It is a disease. Almost uncurable. Ouch.


13 posted on 02/14/2025 5:14:59 AM PST by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: LouAvul

Along those lines — I have known feminist women who believe a woman should have the right to control her own life. She should be free to do what she wants. Go to college! Have a career! Start a business! Anything she wants should be OK!

And then you can ask: Can she be a housewife?

No! No! No! She cannot! That would be wrong! It’s not an option!

And these women, who think that careers are the only acceptable path, tend to hate their career and feel miserable that they had to choose that path. And they deeply resent any women who managed to escape the trap.


14 posted on 02/14/2025 5:15:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: yesthatjallen

Inequality and failure suck....... that’s the reason


15 posted on 02/14/2025 5:15:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why? They make bad decisions and don’t live right.


16 posted on 02/14/2025 5:15:21 AM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: clee1

Yes, liberalism depends on acceptance of a contrived narrative, and denial of reality. Denial of reality is maladaptive. People who can’t adapt to reality are naturally going to be unhappy, because they don’t know how to get their needs met.


17 posted on 02/14/2025 5:16:22 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Could it be ... SATAN?!?


18 posted on 02/14/2025 5:17:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liberals, by their very nature, are unhappy......................


19 posted on 02/14/2025 5:18:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Same everywhere. They see the world thru crap colored glasses.............


20 posted on 02/14/2025 5:19:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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