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The gender gap opened where the cultural machine aimed hardest.
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A generation of women was taught to read the world as a threat.
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The left did not win young people equally. It captured the emotional operating system of young women.
BRIEFING
Grant here. A lot of us can clearly see that young women in the U.S. are radically turning more and more liberal. We don't necessarily need a chart or study to prove it. But alas, we have one, and it really shows in plain numbers how far left the political ideology of young American women is shifting. Let’s break it down.
An X post points to a Gallup chart showing the ideology of Americans ages 18 to 29 by gender from 1999 to 2023, and you'd have to be Ray Charles to miss the pattern. Young men stayed relatively stable over that period, hovering around the center and ending just slightly conservative. While young women, by contrast, moved sharply left, with Gallup’s chart showing the gender ideology gap more than doubling from 12 points in 1999 to 23 points in 2023.
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That's an interesting chart. Young men have stayed similarly conservative for over 25 years, while young women have drifted much further left.
Why such a divergence? What has changed for young women that hasn't changed for young men? pic.twitter.com/HA1PX4jhw4
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) May 3, 2026
Gallup’s follow-up analysis zeros in and shows more clearly where this shift happened. Looking at more than 50 political and social issue trends, Gallup found that women ages 18 to 29 today are way more liberal than young women in the past on specific issues. Especially "climate change" and abortion, and increasing concern is also showing up on guns, race relations, and the LGBTQ community.
And it's not just Gallup showing this divide. Brookings also conducted a study and showed that youngest voters now show a striking gender gap, with young women, again, significantly more liberal in their leanings than young men. Brookings also connected the divide to cultural and social questions, including gender equality, feminism, and the different ways young men and women are responding to modern politics.
What's interesting as well is that this isn't just happening in the U.S.
A 2025 European Sociological Review study also examined young adults in 32 European countries from 1990 to 2023 and found modern gender gaps in political left-right self-placement in more than half of the countries studied, with the largest gaps in several northern and western European nations.
So it's a pattern that's spreading all over Western society.
DEBRIEFING
What's really interesting to note is how young Americans didn't move to the extreme left as one unified bloc. Young men stayed relatively steady, while young women moved sharply in one direction. That difference tells us that what's happening under the hood isn't just age, technology, or generational change. There was a specific campaign aimed at young women, and clearly, it worked.
The shift happened through the issues that now define modern left-wing politics: abortion, climate, race, guns, sexuality, identity, safety, and power. And these weren't sold as simple policy debates. Instead, they were injected with sensation and were framed as personal threats, moral emergencies, and survival questions.
Once a young woman is taught to view normal life through fear, grievance, and vulnerability, politics becomes more than politics. It becomes highly personal, and suddenly politics becomes a literal part of their personality.
NOW YOU KNOW
The chart does not show a generation shifting. It shows a target being hit.
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AWFLs are rampant these days in America, driven mostly by hormone driven younger women who operate on Feelz, and not using their atrophied analytical skills.
Before anyone regales us with tales of mom, or aunt Jane being analytical geniuses, just read the news every day. “Karens” are legion nowadays.
I would wager this was done using our schools.
They end up lonely and old!!!!!!!!!! Screaming at the SKY!!!!!!!!!!
Ever read the story of Eve in the Garden of Eden?
Feminists and its proponents hate the Bible, because in those pages literally LESSION NUMBER ONE is that men are to be leaders and women are to be their helpers. It’s an ancient lesson that was well understood until idiots passed the 19th Amendment. This is not a knock on women’s intelligence writ large, it’s just an acknowledgement that women, as a group (especially the unmarried variety), are ruled by their emotions that over-ride logic far, far too frequently to be trusted with leadership.
There are many well grounded conservative women out there. You have to look for them. And they aren’t as large, or as loud, which means they can be found on conservative dating sites. The lesbian left, well they are everywhere. Just walk outside or turn on a TV, or look on your cell. In the end, yes, they will die lonely, old, ( maybe) haggard ( yes) and howling at the moon ” Why me?”
Women can be manipulated by peer pressure and men not so much. It is well documented that women do not want to be ostracized by the ‘group’ and will conform to peer pressure in order to not be an outlier. The left and their running dog media use the magic “60%” to convince them that the ‘group’ is pro-abortion, pro-trans-agenda, pro-open borders, etc… The mass media and the Communist-Democrats crafts various lies about the public opinion polls, surveys, etc…; always claiming 55+% support for their various cultural and political division campaigns. This is often enough to convince females that the majority agree with the leftist ideology. However, President Trump and MAGA has proved that the majority does not agree…
I disagree that young women are more likely to succumb to peer pressure more than young men (in fact I believe the opposite), and instead that young women are more influenced by close one-on-one relationships.
Nevertheless, there is a good point in your post. And it’s that Democrats use peer pressure and demand performative acts on your part to be part of their party, and if you don’t fall in line, look out for them to attack you. Meanwhile, I mostly see conservatives respecting differences of opinion and not demanding fealty to the group.
You’ve seen in the Obama/Biden vs. Trump. Obama/Biden went after conservatives for their beliefs whether or not they harmed anyone (J6ers, anti-abortion activists, IRS Tea Party groups, Catholics, Trump’s attorneys for representing Trump, Nick Shirley, Andy Ngo, Sara Carter, etc.). IMHO, Trump has been too forgiving of the politicians that hate and work against him, with many in the government including Obama (who recently said he’s against weaponizing government after doing it himself), showing his hypocrisy, and his fear he’ll be rightly prosecuted for what he did.
College. Entitlement and living in a feedback loop of lunacy. A man would have to be crazy to get involved with a woman these days.