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Last week, The New York Times featured an article titled: “How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.”
According to every poll, since 2016 there has been an unprecedented political/social gender gap between young American women and men.
Here is how the Times reported it:
“In 2001, young men and women had similar political ideologies. … Then, around 2016, something shifted, a new analysis shows. Women ages 18 to 29 became significantly more liberal than the previous generation of young women. Today, around 40 percent identify as liberal, compared with just 19 percent who say they’re conservative. The views of young men — who are more likely to be conservative than liberal — have changed little. …”
“Sixty-seven percent of women 18 to 29 supported Vice President Kamala Harris in a New York Times/Siena College poll in six swing states last month, compared with 40 percent of young men. Fifty-three percent of young men in those states backed Donald J. Trump, compared with 29 percent of young women.”
And why did this massive leftward shift of young women occur?
“(Because) the race became in part a referendum on gender — Mrs. Clinton running to be the first female president, Mr. Trump calling her a ‘nasty woman’ and bragging about sexual assault on the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape … Seeing someone like yourself in office can spur political involvement, political scientists have found, especially for young women.”
If these reasons for young women moving to the left beginning in 2016 are correct (abortion is not mentioned; this was six years before Roe v. Wade was overturned), America has a generation of many unimpressive young women.
Let’s analyze the three big reasons:
1. “Seeing someone like yourself” — meaning women seeing a woman running for president and then seeing her defeated.
It is hard to imagine a more primitive reason to support a candidate for president (or any other office) than the importance of their looking like oneself. Yet this is one of the most frequently offered left-wing arguments for the need to elect more women and blacks.
To begin with, it is simply dishonest. Does any woman on the left prefer a woman with conservative views to man with left-wing views? Does any black person on the left prefer a black with conservative views to a white with left-wing views?
So, then, if values and positions are far more important to women and blacks than whether a person is a man or woman, a white or a black, what does it all mean?
It means nothing. All it means is that emotions dictate left-wing women’s and left-wing blacks’ votes. It means that the left-wing argument for having people in political — or corporate board or any other — positions who “look like America” is pure emotion.
Is “looking like America” important in sports? Do white fans care whether the players on their favorite basketball or football team look like them? Have we seen any diminution in fan support for the NFL, given that more than half of NFL players are black and only a quarter are white? Have we seen any diminution in fan support of NBA teams given that three quarters of NBA players are black, and only 17% are white?
Is it important in movies? Are blacks more likely to watch a film with a black lead actor, or whites more likely to watch a film with a white lead actor? Or do both groups want to see stars — whether it’s a white Tom Hanks or a black Denzel Washington? In fact, according to YouGov, three of the five “most popular all-time actors/actresses” are black: Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson and Denzel Washington. Do whites care?
Is it important in medicine? How many patients needing surgery ask for a surgeon of their own sex or race?
There is one other fact of life worth noting. Having more of your own group — blacks or women — in politically powerful positions has no positive effect whatsoever on your group. None of the black governors, senators, representatives or mayors have done anything that has specifically benefited black Americans. And the same holds for women in power with regard to helping women. Meanwhile, Asian Americans have become the most successful ethnic group in America with virtually no Asian Americans in positions of power.
2. Mr. Trump called (Hillary Clinton) a “nasty woman.”
That this is one of the three major reasons for the 2016 left-wing shift of young American women is truly pathetic. It is further proof of the title of a column I wrote two years ago, “Feminism Has Weakened Women.”
One suspects that women of my mother’s — pre-feminism — generation would have been able to handle a male politician calling a female opponent a “nasty woman” far better than the current generation of young women, the products of three generations of feminism. They were also less traumatized by men’s boorish sexist comments. There’s a wild inconsistency here as well: The whole point of feminism, according to feminists, is to have society treat men and women as equals, and equally. Yet feminists simultaneously insist that men treat women with a dose of chivalry or they’re “sexist.”
That same year, 2016, Trump called Florida Sen. Marco Rubio “Little Marco.” Did any short men become leftists as a result? Apparently, short men are considerably stronger than feminized women. For that matter, who isn’t?
3. Trump “bragging about sexual assault on the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape.”
The third reason given for young women’s embracing leftism in 2016 was a recording made in 2005 that came out in 2016. In a private conversation with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood,” Trump said, “When you’re a star … you can do anything. Grab ’em by the p**sy. You can do anything.”
Those comments were made 11 years earlier and in a private conversation with one person. Trump did not say them publicly.
Here is a moral rule of life: You cannot judge a person by comments made in private. We are to judge people by comments made in public, and by actions, whether done in private or public. Virtually every person has said awful things in private. It doesn’t matter. One purpose of private conversations is to let off steam.
It is a testament to the lack of wisdom of our age that we think we can know people — let alone judge them — by what they say in private.
And it is a testament to the lack of wisdom among a majority of America’s young women that these three foolish reasons propelled them to vote for the ideology that is destroying our country.
It’s destroying the western world. Led by UN Women.
A cult that makes abortion not the highest value merits death. At no time in recorded history have young women been more depressed, more anxious,, and ironically more in control of their own fates. This is their agenda that is being ushered in on the strength of their votes and their voting blocks.
The values of young women of course will not be replicated in the next generation. The people that are being imported are their future, the children they never had, are not there to carry on their values.
Whatever Springfield Ohio is becoming, or Sweden, it is not more feminist.
Oct 7, that feminist culture celebrates, is the future of Western women.
Women have brought that in upon themselves..
The thing about cultures of death, they die. Young women have chosen a lifestyle that will not be replicated.
The mercy of God ensures that.
“Women have brought that upon themselves.”
Yes, but women could never have done it unless men gave them the vote – an abdication not unlike our first father’s sin.
Adam was with Eve and did nothing to stop her when she ate the fruit. Instead, he followed her example, allowing her to lead him astray (Gen. 3:6). Afterwards, he had the temerity to insinuate God’s fault in giving Eve to him as an excuse for his failure (Genesis 3: 12).
Parents failing to give their children any sort of moral compass is the real problem, not women having the vote.. After all, not every government since the enfranchisement of women has been disastrous. – and some governments that were not voted in by women have been problematic, like France, which did not allow women to vote until 1944, so the administration that ignominiously surrendered to Hitler was voted in by men. One of the last nations to allow women to vote was Saudi Arabia in 2008, so all of their cultural and religious achievements up until that time must be credited to men. Similarly, look how Mohammed governed his new religion without needing the votes of women.
In the case of Adam and Eve, Adam failed to use the knowledge that he had. He had seen all of the animals God had created, which Eve may not have done (Gen 2 19-20), and he knew that none of them could speak, so he should have realised that it would therefore be a good idea to check matters out with the Lord rather than following Eve in her disobedience. It was not just who he listened to, but who he failed to heed.
Men and women are foundationally different – something childhood moral training cannot erase. Moral training is education in right and wrong. Today’s moral training is infected with feminist ideology that is largely responsible for the miseries and confusions in our modern culture.
Politics is warfare. Women are not made for the kind of open conflict of warfare. The general rule is when women vote, they tend to vote for daddy / husband government –which is always progressive leftist government. NAXALT! Not All women Are Like That – but those exceptions do not disprove the rule that women tend to support leftist politics in much higher numbers than men. And using bad men like Mohammed does not disprove the rule that if men alone voted, we would generally have more conservative, limited government.
That you believe Adam and Eve needed to “check matters out with the Lord” is troublesome. Genesis 2: 16 is strong and clear: “And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, ‘From any tree of the garden you may surely eat; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.’ ”
Eve knew also: Genesis 3: 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
What would they say to God? “Did you really mean it?”
” Apparently, short men are considerably stronger than feminized women.”
“Feminized women” is not the phrase you’re looking for, and in fact it’s close to being a meaningless tautology, true by definition. You mean something like “feminismized” which is probably not a word (certainly not according to my spell-checker), or something similar.
The other thing no one mentions about feminist women is that they have have absolutely no sense of humor. None. They are always offended and looking for the next thing or comment that offends them. A man would have to be nuts to be in a relationship with a woman who is a feminist.
No man wants to be constantly lectured about his toxic masculinity and to always be wrong and in trouble.
These women are constantly bragging about the fact that they do not need a man. Men are learning that they do not need a feminist woman. It is simply not worth the trouble and the aggravation.
These women are creating a world where they are destined to be lonely, bitter, childless and alone. And they are doing to themselves.
I hope they are all lesbians because no man is going to want to be with them.
You can’t sleep with an ideology.
AMEN. And IM a woman.
By an interesting coincidence, we are told that there is also no humour in Islam. Maybe it’s a trait of totalitarianism?
As a woman, I agree with you. Too many don’t even make an effort to put themselves together into anything resembling femininity..
Also a sign of intellectual immaturity is the one issue abortion voter, as if unlimited access to an abortion is the greatest issue facing this country and the world today.
Take-away: Stupidity among young women is commensurate with their degree of leftism.
Absolutely. They’re pathetic
From a book I have titled “Light Bulb Jokes”
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: That’s not funny!
Still, true, still humorous.
There are too many women in to many positions of authority and the reason is that there are too many weak men.
Whether women like it or not, when real men rule, things work better for their fellow countrymen.
In the UK I can’t remember the last time we had real men in government. And now we have beta-males infesting all sections of society, from education to the police, to the armed forces, to the judiciary, and deferring to some rather low quality women. For examples, see our most recent bunch of government ministers. QED.
I feel very sorry for the good young men looking to find a real woman, a lifetime supportive partner to raise a family with, to journey the roller coaster that life is, to grow old with.
I am very fortunate to be from a very different generation where narcissism wasn’t the prevailing culture.