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Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging | DW Analysis



Young men are more likely than women to drop out of college, commit suicide, and support far-right parties. But while misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are correctly blamed for fueling the incel manosphere’s backlash against feminism, there is a lot more to this story than incels, culture wars and wokeness. From stagnant economies and unaffordable housing to fears of cultural obsolescence, young men are grappling with a myriad of challenges that seldom enter the public discourse. So what is really behind the growing political rift between Gen Z Boys and Girls?

In the video we talk to Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Of Boys and Men” where he explores all the ways in which the modern male is struggling. Alice Evans, visiting scholar at Stanford University, who is travelling around the world to study this divide and makes the point that lagging economies, corporate algorhythms, and patriarchal mentality can explain this backlash. And Neil Shyminsky, Professor at Cambrian College and famous on TikTok as @professorneil, who sees in Influencers like Andrew Tate as a main threat.

Video by Christian Caurla

00:00 – Intro
02:02 – What’s going on
03:58 – Ignored issues
11:35 – Crisis of masculinity
22:42 – Online radicalization
28:54 – Solutions

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37 comments
@Itsallconnected_shaneortega

This entire talk was about the loss of flase ideologies of masculinity. The reality is that we live in a world of matriarchy. If more men, particularly EU men, were connected to their indigenous roots, they would understand that fact quite simply. EG Norse, pagan, and many cultures from their roots had women and non-binary people as the spiritual leaders, gods, and healers. Women are the givers of life, the earth is a feminine being. You aren't losing anything from not doing manual labor, Many famous Greeks were orators.

You are regaining knowledge of how the natural world actually is, and yes, if your masculinity is defined by muscle strength, then you are in crisis. This is a whole episode of "us" vs them, when in truth there is NO competetion, we either help each other gain equity or you don't.

@annarush6595

Girls professional advantages in their early to mid-20s is blunted in the following decade or so by child-bearing and raising a family. This is the time when men catch up with them in terms of earning. Which is unfair for women. Some women resent this.

@martina6687

Very interesting and humorous how – as I would interpret this – you put together statements from different interviews and placed youre questions before. Can we anywhere see what the original videos are named to view the whole thing?

@johnm84

Feminism has divided men and women.

@Perserra

I am a man and the sole breadwinner for my family. My wife had a career, but she developed a medical condition that made her unable to work. So now I have to support both of us and our son off my one salary and a little bit of government benefits. We are not thriving.

@nates9105

Yeah I cannot be a rich "bread winner". But you know what I can do? I can take care of those around me and find purpose in doing that. Not only does my faith direct me to do so but so does my understanding that I am incapable of doing everything myself. Therefore building that social capaital by helping and servicing others do I find a new and unsteal-able currency that I can spend to make myself, or even more people, better off.

@ms.information180

Wow. There really was zero thought given to the fact that 3/4 people onscreen are men in a discussion of the gender divide.