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High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)

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While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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[-] crystal@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

in many cases when people bring up boy's or men's issues they will only do so while simultaneously attacking feminist talking points.

This is very much a talking point by "only girls can have issues" people.

"Men don't have issues, men's rights groups only exist to spread misogyny!"

That is a key point of why the idea that men's issues are not taken seriously is spreading, because simply talking about / focusing on men's issues quickly gets people labled as misogynists.

This both gets people to stop caring about the idea of misogynism, because "apparently simply talking about men's issues is misogyny", and thereby also pushes people to develop more problematic views.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

because simply talking about / focusing on men’s issues quickly gets people labled as misogynists.

This is simply not true.

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