Main Character Syndrome

Steyn Online ^ | 15 June 2026 | Mark. Steyn

[Rummyfan]

It's hardly news that women have been steadily moving ever further left politically at a pace – "radically" – that far outstrips men, whose views tend to be stable. Especially Gen Z. According to a Gallup poll, women age 18-29 have over the last 25 years stretched a left-leaning gap from their male peers from 12 points to 23 points, nearly double. And although they have passionate "feelings" about their leftist ideals, they tend as a collective to fall short on logic, respect for free speech and intellectual coherence, more so than men. And that is bad news for our society, because women are numerically dominant in just about every social, professional and cultural institution we have. Not to mention politics.

I'm writing this column at a beach house in Maine. It's primary season in the U.S. so one sees a lot of political lawn signs. Even a few, in this upscale, genteel, American flag-forward community, for Graham Platner, the controversial poster boy for toxic masculinity, but now successfully elected Dem Senate-race candidate, with a definitive 72 percent of votes cast.

The Dems, it seems, are so desperate to gain control of the Senate, they are willing to overlook Platner's Nazi tattoo (over-inked now to disguise the Totenkopf), his slagging of former Marines brothers-in-arms, his seriously insalubrious sexual history, and fake working-class identity.

At a recent campaign event in Portland, Platner was received with enthusiasm. Some present held hand-made signs reading "We are your Grahamily!" A New York Post article on the event was illustrated by a photo of a woman holding up one such sign with her own added hearts and "we've got your back" written under "Grahamily." ...

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[Rummyfan]

Would there be any red line for this woman, tattoo-wise? Oh yes. An "Israeli flag," definitely a red line. "Yeah, because I don't want genocide." Grahamily, meet Hamamily. An Israel-themed tattoo, she says, "would show that he was being inconsistent..." Another Portland female attendee conceded, in response to a reporter's question about Platner's sexual history, that Platner had "clearly shown some very poor judgment," but that was all in the past, you see. In the same past as, you know, the Holocaust, emblemized by the Totenkopf tattoo that was considered, emm, aaawkward by pesky conservative critics.

[Rummyfan]

If Platner wins his race, and same with Islamism-linked candidates in the House, we have women to thank. Or curse. Expect more of them. A lot of women suffer from "main character syndrome," which means they think their actions are more significant than they are. They see themselves as stars in a movie. Remember Renee Good in Minneapolis driving into the ICE agent and getting shot to death? Her understandably shocked girlfriend, Rebecca, was overheard on a video screaming, "Why did you have real bullets?"

Such women live in a world created in their own imagination, where they can take stupid risks, but the director yells "Cut!" before anything bad happens to them. But there are enough of them to change the real world for the worse. So much worse.

[Resolute Conservative]

These women will get worse as they have branded themselves as not marriage material and after a few years of giving it away and only having the cats and lattes they will slide further in hatred of men.

[Donbue]

I don’t see a problem, only a plus side.
Let the lefty women go off and do their thing. If by chance once finds a willing sperm donor they will probably abort according to their ideology.
The few women on the right will find a willing group of men from which to select one from and have chidren with. Nature has peculiar ways of balancing itself.

[Jim W N]

Women are more easily deceived for it was Eve, not Adam, who succumbed to the serpent’s subtlety and was deceived (1 Timothy 2:14). Now they are being deceived by the same serpent, the spirit of antichrist.

[maddog55]

Writing from Maine...I’m in Maine as well visiting a sick family member. I left the state 46 years ago and glad I did. There’s fag flags everywhere, the roads are a complete mess, never saw so many LGBTWRSTUVWXYZ freaks walking around with every color hair imaginable. Can’t wait to fly out on Wednesday...total shxthole. It represents everything wrong with being a liberal.

[ComputerGuy]

...intellectual coherence...

[Vaduz]

But but it worked out for their role model Hillary huh?.

Makes one wonder why they keep finding the roaming around in the woods.

[bk1000]

Repeal the 19th for the good of everyone.

[gibsonguy]

I don’t see a problem, only a plus side.“

There would not be a single rat holding a national office without the woman vote.

[FormerFRLurker]

Repeal the 19th for the good of everyone.

You need to amend the Constitution in order to repeal a Constitutional amendment. Good luck getting 3/4 of the states to ratify an amendment about anything today. Believe it or not, figuring out what women want from the GOP and winning them over is the easier solution! I will never understand the mindset of the American male yet I find ways to work with them. I suggest you do the same for women rather than chase a pipe dream.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You must be on the coast, where all the pretenders visiting from other places are.

I know, the very liberal head of our org is there every single summer, on the damned beach (I never understand people’s obsession with beaches), even before full retirement.

My people were from inland. The back woods, where moose are, not lobsters.

However,i was very upset last few times up (2018) that Moslems have indeed been invited in by more do-gooders liberals like my aunt and taken over Lewiston even. Absurdistan.

Thank God they were so far up in the woods it was hard to find crap like that and f ags. Even on the roads even further to my grandfathers home (dads childish hood teen years) we passed a house right on the road which had a big Rebel flag on it…yea!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, and the truth is we’re not all bad.

Better to repeal the 14th. THAT is a lock-step monolithic demographic.

[mowowie]

Do you happen to be in Ogunquit?

[zeestephen]

Links to essays about young American voters almost always ignore the main issue - race.

50% of the 18-29 year old group are non-white.

White people - and specifically white males - are the Conservative Core of the USA.

Every year, the percentage of white voters goes down.

[AFB-XYZ]

A whole bunch of women that I’ve encountered in my lifetime desperately want attention and/or notoriety. They equate it with power and will do anything to get it. They want to be seen by society as “important”, “with-it”, “hip”, etc. IMHO, that contingent of “the fairer sex” is trying to compensate for what most of them lack in physical ability.

Disclaimer: The above is only my own personal opinion.

[esquirette]

Give us some data aside from anecdotes, Mark. I know plenty of conservative women. Perhaps they are not as loud as the liberals, but that would stand to reason. If it weren’t for the insinuations of conservative men about cats and repeal of the 19th, I think there would be more conservative women.