Were the anti-suffragists right, after all?
The anti-suffragists believed women lacked the necessary political knowledge and judgment to make informed voting decisions and that suffrage would disrupt traditional family structures. And, whatever the cause, there is no doubt traditional family structures have not just been disrupted, but hung, drawn, quartered and smashed into little bits.
As for the inability to make informed voting decisions, new research at least bears out that women, increasingly, are making polar opposite voting choices to men. The younger the generation, the more dramatic the split.
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.
It will surprise no one that young females are moving further and further to the left than before. On the other hand, young men, despite years of left-wing indoctrination in the school system (by almost exclusively female teachers – big surprise!), are moving hard to the right (or, what used to be called the centre).
In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. That gap took just six years to open up.
Germany also now shows a 30-point gap between increasingly conservative young men and progressive female contemporaries, and in the UK the gap is 25 points. In Poland last year, almost half of men aged 18–21 backed the hard-right Confederation party, compared to just a sixth of young women of the same age.
Outside the West, there are even more stark divisions. In South Korea there is now a yawning chasm between young men and women, and it’s a similar situation in China. In Africa, Tunisia shows the same pattern. Notably, in every country this dramatic split is either exclusive to the younger generation or far more pronounced there than among men and women in their thirties and upwards.
The outcome of a generation of young women who, despite being the safest, most privileged generation of women in human history, despite enjoying better outcomes than young men on almost every measure, have been indoctrinated with the resentful belief that they are uniquely oppressed.
The #MeToo movement was the key trigger, giving rise to fiercely feminist values among young women who felt empowered to speak out against long-running injustices. That spark found especially dry tinder in South Korea, where gender inequality remains stark, and outright misogyny is common.
In the country’s 2022 presidential election, while older men and women voted in lockstep, young men swung heavily behind the right-wing People Power party, and young women backed the liberal Democratic party in almost equal and opposite numbers.
Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways.
It’s yet another towering achievement of the same third-wave feminism that nurtured and championed – and still largely does – transgenderism. Until at least some women started to notice what a disaster transgenderism is for them personally: it’s always about their feelings, of course.
But that hasn’t stopped young women in thrall to always-the-victim feminism from repeatedly punching themselves in the face.
[Korea’s] society is riven in two. Its marriage rate has plummeted, and birth rate has fallen precipitously, dropping to 0.78 births per woman in 2022, the lowest of any country in the world.
Western women are still determinedly voting against their own interests, too.
In the US, UK and Germany, young women now take far more liberal positions on immigration and racial justice than young men, while older age groups remain evenly matched.
And how’s that working out for them? For a generation so addicted to fishwife-screeching about ‘sexual harassment’, they seem strangely determined to import millions of men for whom rape is a form of grotesque recreation. Men who have to be given government-sponsored lessons that, in one of the weird vicissitudes of Western culture, it’s actually not acceptable to rape any and every woman out in public on her own.
They’re not exactly proving to be the fastest learners around.
It would be easy to say this is all a phase that will pass, but the ideology gaps are only growing.
No doubt they’ll find some way to blame everything they’ve voted for on men, somehow. Just as feminists are now blaming men for transgenderism, despite clear statistical evidence that it is overwhelmingly supported by women and opposed by men.
