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

  • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I partially blame the Left for not addressing mental health issues for our younger boys and men and not doing a better job at expressing what healthy, happy masculinity actually looks like. So the likes of Andrew Taint, Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh and the likes basically swooped in and took that over.

    I’ve got a 15 year old nephew who’s starting his Sophomore year in like a week. I’ve already heard him say some rather disturbing extremist right-wing shit, and sadly his father fucking sucks at being a father so correcting him hasn’t been easy for me (I’m the aunt, his mother is not currently in the picture). And he says this shit with his little sister around too.

    • treefrog@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Because the right does such a good job addressing male mental health?

      Maybe his parents (you and his dad I suppose) should monitor who he follows on social media a bit better?

      • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I would love it if his father bothered to put in effort in raising my eldest nephew, but that isn’t going to happen sadly.

        And I never insinuated the right was doing a good job???

        • treefrog@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Well you blamed the left when honestly that’s about two people in Congress, the liberals are centrists whose job it is to keep another general strike from happening.

          Why not blame the right? They’re the ones literally pushing toxic shit on our kids and wanting to start child labor back up.

          I sure as hell don’t blame the left. Without the left my kid and your nephew would be working in a mine or factory. And you and I would still be working 80 hours a week to survive.