The Great Gender Divergence By Mrs. Vera West

One topic that is seldom thought about by older conservative writers is the growing divide between young men and women. It is a major problem for future generations, and one cause of the fall of marriage rates, and births. In a nutshell, women are embracing Leftist values with a passion, feminism is standard now, but the gay, trans, and globalist ideologies of mass immigration, are largely supported by women, young women in particular. White women are the leading category accepting the Left agenda. And men, perhaps in disgust from the attacks upon them, have turned more in a conservative direction, but not as far Right as women have gone Left. This is creating a great divide between the sexes, one which already exists between the ordinary people and the New Class elites. The gap though has mainly been generated by young women moving so fast to the Left, as data published by the Financial Times has shown. And the movement seems to be still going on, if not gaining in pace.

What will halt this process? I think that much of this social experimentation has been due to the West being in relatively affluent times since the 1960s; it is hard to see the cultural revolution of that time occurring in a time of economic tightness, like the 1930s. While the negatives of a cost-of-living crisis are clear, perhaps a small silver lining to a very dark rain cloud, may be that woke agendas also decline, and it is this that young women, highly open to social conformity, are reacting to. And, if conscription comes back with World War III, and woman face for the first-time becoming cannon fodder, I bet there will suddenly be more marriages and pregnancies!

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"For young people today, finding a partner of the opposite sex must be dreadfully hard. But this isn't because of the pressure to look like an Instagram gym buff, or the horrors of dating apps, or the fact that no one under the age of 30 seems to drink alcohol any more.

It's because these days, young men and women have got absolutely nothing in common.

Seriously. All of a sudden, they appear to have developed completely different values. It's unprecedented. In the past, the two sexes tended to hold roughly similar views on politics. But research compiled over the past five years shows that in Britain – and indeed other Western countries – young women have become more progressive, while young men have become more conservative. And the resulting ideological gap is now staggeringly vast.

Alice Evans, an academic at King's College London, is writing a book on this phenomenon, entitled The Great Gender Divergence. She says it's been caused by a variety of factors, including "social media bubbles" and "economic resentment". Whatever the reasons for it, though, I think there is a vital point we're in danger of missing. Which is that only one of the two sexes is strictly to blame.

Recently, the Financial Times published some charts illustrating how the gulf between young men and women has grown in each Western country. And in every chart, there is an unmistakable pattern. The political views of young men haven't actually altered all that much. Their drift to the Right has been really quite gentle.

The political views of young women, however, have changed dramatically. Their move to the Left has been abrupt and profound. In truth, then, this cavernous ideological divide is almost entirely attributable to them.

Which is curious. Because, whenever the divide is discussed by politicians and commentators, they make it sound as if the problem is young men. They fret endlessly about how young men today are being "radicalised" by nasty Right-wing YouTubers such as Andrew Tate, or horrid Right-wing politicians such as Donald Trump.

Yet they never apply this word "radicalised" to young women. Why not? I suspect it's because these politicians and commentators tend to be progressive themselves. Therefore, they see no problem with young women becoming drastically more progressive. In their view, the more progressive someone is, the better. So the fault lies entirely with young men, for failing to emulate young women's lurch to the Left.

Personally, though, I think this lurch Leftwards should alarm us all. The future of Western civilisation is already threatened by our collapsing birth rates. And this sudden ideological chasm between the sexes is only going to make the crisis worse. No one's going to be forming couples at all any more, if, on every first date, the woman asks, "What do you think of Gramsci?", and the man replies, "He's the type of striker Man Utd are crying out for."

It's a chilling thought. So clearly something must be done. Politicians must spend less time obsessing over the radicalisation of young men, and start paying attention to the radicalisation of young women, instead.

As it happens, the Labour Party has announced that, when it's in power, it will help to combat the influence that Andrew Tate has on boys. Surely it would make more sense to help combat the influence The Guardian has on girls.

Otherwise, the only way young men are going to get a girlfriend is by frantically boning up on George Monbiot and Owen Jones. And if that's what the future has to hold, perhaps Western civilisation isn't worth saving, after all."