A new global gender divide is emerging
One of the most well-established patterns in measuring public opinion is that every generation tends to move as one in terms of its politics and general ideology. Its members share the same formative experiences, reach life’s big milestones at the same time and intermingle in the same spaces. So how should we make sense of reports that Gen Z is hyper-progressive on certain issues, but surprisingly conservative on others?
The answer, in the words of Alice Evans, a visiting fellow at Stanford University and one of the leading researchers on the topic, is that today’s under-thirties are undergoing a great gender divergence, with young women in the former camp and young men the latter. Gen Z is two generations, not one.
In countries on every continent, an ideological gap has opened up between young men and women. Tens of millions of people who occupy the same cities, workplaces, classrooms and even homes no longer see eye-to-eye.
In other words: if you follow Andrew Tate and the like, you're not getting laid.
Have so many of my contemporaries really become Jordan Peterson-, Ben Shapiro-, and Andrew Tate-watching incels?
Those grifters get their audience from somewhere...
Small childreb watch the crap, it's really fucked up. They don't even have a period of living normal lives, just a jump to inceldom before they even get pimples
Can't we all just watch lord of the rings together and appreciate Aragorn?
I'll see your Aragorn, and raise you a Legolas 😉
I raise you a Gimli
Ok, you win. I see you're well versed in the Aragorn-Legolas-Gimli game. 🙇👍
Seems intuitive that those that benefit from the patriarchy would defend the status quo. Good on Gen Z for not settling for chauvinists.
FYI: a lot of people have had a crack at this since the article dropped and this is not being replicated by... any of them, really. there seems to be a broad consensus that there is something wrong with whatever dataset FT is using.
here are a few attempts