This lady is one of Tim Pool's people. She's right. The divide in Gen Z is clearly there:
The responses are interesting/terrifying and largely boil down to two things:
1. Marry them and force your will on them to become conservative.
2. Take away women's right to vote.
I'm curious as to this audience (largely left leaning folks, or at the very least, not off the deep end MAGAs). How do you get more young men to be liberal? The fall isn't nearly as sharp here as it is in South Korea, but the divide is clearly there. Or is it not something worth even thinking about?
I wouldn’t say it’s to get them to be more liberal. The issue with young men leaning right IMO is a severe lack of internet intelligence, lack of parental oversight, and toxic masculinity. IMO this really starts around middle school, hormones are raging, and not enough kids have positive role models to deal with liking girls/boys and handling rejection.
Internet Intelligence starts with being able to pick out when someone is trying to sell you something or simply work you into an emotional state. Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, various comedians pushing people like Jordan Peterson send young boys into a world of “what does it mean to be a man?” They see the money, fame, and women. Again relationships are becoming a big part of their life so a lot of them start to buy into this bullshit. Then when it doesn’t work they become angry and search for validation on the internet. It’s easy to find, even if it’s not real.
Parental Oversight is one of two things. One, it’s just hard. I do my best and still at times found Tate or Tate adjacent things coming up in the media my now 10 year old was consuming. Cutting out YouTube curbed a lot of that, as the algorithm will create a feedback loop. Two, the parents just don’t care, don’t have the energy, or don’t realize the amount of oversight that is needed. This lets the kids run wild on the internet and it hugely influences who the kid is turning out to be.
Toxic Masculinity is an odd one. I find myself struggling with the balance at times of letting my kids know that feelings and what not are okay but that they can’t stop you from things like working hard, being brave, and putting yourself out there even though rejection sucks. Many times it would be so easy to say something like “don’t be a wuss” but it’s harder to approach it from an angle of understanding and pushing them to get outside of their boundaries. In a sense, continually driving home that it is good to be brave and it’s okay to fail. It is not okay to paralyze yourself or make excuses. I’ve heard parents at sporting events tell their son to “not be a little dodint” or to “go out there and hurt them.” While I’d like to think they want to have good intentions, I can’t help but think the impact it has on the kid long term can’t be good.
Thise three things and how they’re handled IMO play a large part in how a young person starts to slant one way or the other.
This has been my TED Talk. Thank you for coming.