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Justice for Men & Boys 
This one is worrying! Faced with seemingly insoluble social problems, young women double down with the niceness (hence “progressive”), while young men push towards a radical solution. I can’t think of any other explanation.
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This reflects a simple reality, males encounter the real world much earlier than young women. Young women are far more likely to to put off entering the labour market by furthering education at university and college, as the feminists point out constantly they are also likely to enter the market for relatively few sectors frequently public services or large corporations (Banks etc.) so relatively benign employers. Whereas the sheer variety of different occupations and employer types will inevitably mean more young men experience competition and ups and downs of market conditions, and they generally do so earlier as they enter the employment market earlier. So things like the effect of importing cheap labour, unstable market conditions, high housing costs effect males earlier. Add in that they will be the first generation to be exposed to full on feminism at school (rather than later if they went to University) and probably learned much earlier that the “establishment” now thinks they are “toxic” and should be discriminated against, and one can see that the “luxury beliefs” that have come to be seen as left wing are very likely to be seen as just that; the beliefs of the smug establishment. The divergence is worth taking note of. The notion of “men’s rights” has proven to have little traction in a society dedicated to gynocentric chivalry, however the notion of equal rights and being fair has far more attraction. Specially to males who are known to be far more invested in abstract ideas of fair play and equal opportunities, whereas females tend to think in terms of their individual wants. After all a part of this is the truth that its actually women who are found to be most supportive of “self identification” and a multiplicity of genders, so people are comfortable and their feelings are assuaged. And men who baulk at the obvious confusion and contradictions of the resultant chaos.
I suspect the infection of schools with overt feminism and the entitled behaviour of young women in public services and manifest unfairness of DEI policies in work will prove the undoing of feminism’s grip over public policy. Many years ago I recall reading Michael Kimmel, a male feminist doing workshops in high schools, counselling his colleagues that they shouldn’t ignore the young men’s negative experiences of the opposite sex, because to do so would make him and his colleagues “be perceived as telling lies”. Of course this counsel is ignored in today’s education obsessed with toxic masculinity, and I’m sure young men do indeed perceive their teachers are telling them lies.
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