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Why are younger men so right wing?
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Anonymous
Young men keep getting told the right is “on their side,” but the irony is that the actual policies that have kneecapped their futures the most read like a greatest‑hits list of right‑wing economics. The same movement selling them grievance content on YouTube is the one that backed the offshoring wave that wiped out millions of male‑dominated jobs, gutted unions that once guaranteed apprenticeships and middle‑class wages, and fought every attempt to raise the minimum wage in a labor market where young men are overrepresented in low‑pay work. They’re being pulled toward a politics that tells them their struggles are caused by immigrants, women, or “wokeness,” while the real structural hits have come from decades of GOP deregulation, union‑busting, cuts to vocational training, and blocking healthcare expansion, all of which disproportionately hurt young men trying to get stable footing. The irony is brutal: the same guys who feel abandoned by the economy are gravitating toward the faction that championed the very policies that chopped away at their economic ladder. And the kicker? The actual number of trans athletes, DEI hires, or campus culture‑war villains affecting their real‑world prospects is statistically microscopic. Meanwhile, the big‑ticket items: wages, healthcare, job training, housing, and worker protections are where the right’s policy record hits young men hardest. They’re fighting phantoms while the big material stuff that shapes their lives was and continues to be undermined by the GOP right out in broad daylight. |
Anonymous
“ The rule simply says you can’t deny someone equal access solely for being transgender. “ Which is why under previous administration-men started to access women spaces and women’s sport. Stop being disingenuous. Fortunately now there are cases before the Supreme Court which will determine whether states may enforce laws ensuring that women’s and girls’ sports remain female-only, or whether male athletes who identify as transgender must be permitted to compete on female teams. |
Anonymous
The changes would have made it illegal for a girl to ask to room in a college dorm with another real girl. Any boy could say they identify as preferring to room with a female and the girls would either have to accept it, or in the case of campuses that require living in dorms, drop out. |
Anonymous
Do you really think he’s funny? This is a serious question. Like his “Merry Christmas to all the losers” thing is mildly amusing but it’s his only bit as far as I can see. |
Anonymous
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My beyond left-wing young adult DD told me, in secret, that she is appalled by parents having their young kids change gender. I was glad she expressed her opinion, but why does she have to hide it from her friends?
Do you all not agree that it is messed up to allow underage children to change gender? |
Anonymous
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My son is a white athlete from DC attending a state school in California. His bubble of friends out there are all pretty much middle of the road conservatives. Not right wing or gung ho. Just pragmatic call it like they see it.
This should make all of you feel safe. |
Anonymous
he was, and is, doing illegal things. that deserves obstruction. And you may recall some of the proclaimations McConnell made about Obama during Obama's term....and his policies were not illegal. But I guess we should be outraged by tan suits and sleeveless dresses and ignore the criminality the GOP supports these days. |
Anonymous
Your side has done FAR WORSE by repeatedly refusing to act on gun control, despite massacre after massacre, atrocity after atrocity, which has traumatized and shattered VASTLY MORE families and inflicted VASTLY MORE damage than the fraction of a single digit percentage of trans people in athletics. And you refuse to acknowledge the fact that Americans, even Republicans overwhelmingly support common sense gun reforms and instead you just keep doubling down on guns guns guns, and "f your feelings, my gun is worth more than your child's life." I am not going to care about you and your complaints about trans issues until you let us deal with the far bigger issues like this. |
Anonymous
The gender change thing really affects young Women the most. It’s unsafe for men to be allowed in women’s spaces period |
Anonymous
And theses are parents who bought into the right wing lies and impact. There are so few high school athletes who are trans as to be no even worth discussion and can be determined on a case by case basis by the high school/league/school district. But the right wing media machine blew the whole thing so wildly out of proportion relative to the number of people it actually impacts. But hey, it wins elections and keeps the citizenry divided, so it is all good and easy to ignore the criminality and theft taking place in plain sight. |
Anonymous
and yet, there are not really cases in any meaningful numbers of young women being threatened by trans people in locker rooms, bathrooms or otherwise. But on the other hand, look at all the religious white men and billionaires who are being implicated in sex abuse, pedophilia etc. It is all projection on the "other" to distract from the true monsters. |
Anonymous
Yes, by far the biggest threat to the safety of young women are trans people. Oh, wait, that might be a little off. |
Anonymous
Stop spreading falsehoods, propaganda and obvious disinformation. There is NO evidence in the rule text or in any legal analysis that the 2024 Title IX update required colleges to assign transgender students as dorm roommates against anyone’s wishes. The rule dealt with discrimination and harassment, not roommate matching. And regardless of this, the entire rule has since been struck down nationwide. Your hysterical "forced dorm roommate" claim is not and was not ever supported by the facts. |
Anonymous
I think he is hilarious. His sense of comedic timing is incredible. |
Anonymous
Why are you minimizing women's concern about this? |