Can you explain this? These is not at all a connection I would have made. And maybe more importantly why now? I would wager teen boys in this day and age are more wel travelled then 30 years ago.
the feminisation of liberalism over the past two decades can be expected to produce this reaction. The gender divide in politics, US and elsewhere (Republic of Korea notably produced a gendered election - males overwhelmingly voting for Yoon) is trending phenomenon with quite unknown consequences.
One of those articles where the further you read the less true the headline seems.
> The rightward drift of high school boys is comparatively subtle. Indeed, when it comes to politics, most boys seem reluctant to pick a side. In the 2022 Monitoring the Future survey, the largest group of senior boys, more than two-fifths, claimed no politics at all, answering the liberal-conservative question with “none of the above” or “I don’t know.” Nearly one-fifth identified as moderate. Only 36 percent selected liberal or conservative as an ideology, and only there did the trend emerge.
My son is 21 and leans right on culture war issues, he is skeptical of incel ideology (saw a friend get wrecked by it) but he is also skeptical of trans ideology (believes another friend is being wrecked by it.) He hates Trump and hates Elon Musk. He says that he is "ridin' with Biden."
It sounds like his views have some overlap with gender-critical feminists. Out of interest, what is his stance on women's rights in general?
I think one of the curiosities of the right recently taking a sceptical interest in trans ideology is that, particularly on social media, there are loads of 'terfy' left-wing feminist women who have been talking about this for years, and they seem to be having something of a feminist influence on right-leaning folks.
Feminists have lined up with cultural conservatives before.
The movement to get women the vote in the U.S. was aligned with the movement for alcohol prohibition. When women got the vote they voted Republican (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover). Andrea Dworkin aligned with the Moral Majority against pornography, etc.
Famously Ben Disraeli talked to a leftist and explained that he wouldn’t get anywhere because his ideas scared women.
Mormons give off this “Stepford Wives” vibe but when I gave blood at the Mormon temple I found many more women giving blood than I’ve ever seen. Women waiting in line were talking about all sorts of adventures they’d been on, for instance the Mormons are now sending many women to do missionary activity all over the world.
So far as what he thinks about trans ideology my son has been influenced by his experience with a childhood friend who he thinks is in a bad place, here is my write-up
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 22.5 ms ] thread> The rightward drift of high school boys is comparatively subtle. Indeed, when it comes to politics, most boys seem reluctant to pick a side. In the 2022 Monitoring the Future survey, the largest group of senior boys, more than two-fifths, claimed no politics at all, answering the liberal-conservative question with “none of the above” or “I don’t know.” Nearly one-fifth identified as moderate. Only 36 percent selected liberal or conservative as an ideology, and only there did the trend emerge.
I think one of the curiosities of the right recently taking a sceptical interest in trans ideology is that, particularly on social media, there are loads of 'terfy' left-wing feminist women who have been talking about this for years, and they seem to be having something of a feminist influence on right-leaning folks.
The movement to get women the vote in the U.S. was aligned with the movement for alcohol prohibition. When women got the vote they voted Republican (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover). Andrea Dworkin aligned with the Moral Majority against pornography, etc.
Famously Ben Disraeli talked to a leftist and explained that he wouldn’t get anywhere because his ideas scared women.
Mormons give off this “Stepford Wives” vibe but when I gave blood at the Mormon temple I found many more women giving blood than I’ve ever seen. Women waiting in line were talking about all sorts of adventures they’d been on, for instance the Mormons are now sending many women to do missionary activity all over the world.
So far as what he thinks about trans ideology my son has been influenced by his experience with a childhood friend who he thinks is in a bad place, here is my write-up
https://tildes.net/~lgbt/1692/thoughts_on_lgbt_memes_and_cli...