Bloomberg offers a valuable, well-documented discussion of the key role that a number of YouTube "influencers" played in pushing young males towards Donald Trump in the last election:
Men, and particularly white men, have long made up Trump’s core support base. But in November’s election, young men swung especially hard to the right.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/
"More than half of men under 30 supported Trump, according to the AP VoteCast survey of more than 120,000 voters, though outgoing President Joe Biden won the group in 2020. Exit polls have shown that Trump received more support from young men than any Republican candidate in more than two decades."
@wdlindsy I Think about how dumb the average male under 30 is. Then I remember that 50% of them are dumber than that.
@paco It concerns me that a shocking portion of younger men today are turning their backs on education, while women in the same age cohort are not doing so.
The statistics are shocking.
"The gender distribution has flipped over the course of a 55-year period. While men had a 58 percent share of total enrollment in 1970, by 2025 they are estimated to have a 43 percent share with the women’s share reaching 57 percent... Of a total fall undergraduate enrollment of over 19 million in 2025, women will constitute 10.9 million undergraduates compared to 8.3 million men."
@mastodonmigration @wdlindsy @paco
I highly recommend this. Basically, sexism is why this is happening. Once women dominate an arena, men flee.
https://mementomori.social/@undefined_variable/113755708976880845
Absolutely. Excellent article!
And there is an entire ecosystem of grifters pulling them in and channeling their anger against women. Checknout the links elsewhere in this thread.
And if you have the time this 4 part podcast is excellent on the subject:
This podcast episode is on a related (the same?) subject but from a different angle.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-boys-and-men-in-trouble/
@EllenJS @lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco
Reeves is an interesting character. His work is regarded as good in identifying the problem, but flawed in his prescriptions for addressing it, and too closely aligned with MRA (mens rights activist) thinking:
https://ifstudies.org/blog/right-diagnosis-wrong-prescription-richard-reeves-of-boys-and-men
@mastodonmigration
Have his prescriptions been tried? If so did they fail or succeed? If they’ve not been tried it’s early to say they’re flawed.
@EllenJS @lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco
No real opinion. Just passing along some of the critique. The question of how to address this problem is a very interesting discussion and spans the gamet. A lot of the debate is about how much to coddle these young men vs. treat them as miscreants.
Feel like the thing that resonates about this criticism of Reeves is that much of his language is similar to the MRM, which despite the innocuous sounding title is a gateway to a pretty toxic set of ideas.
It’s been months since I listened to the conversation with Reeves I linked to. I also, by chance, heard another, elsewhere, later. In neither case did I get a hint that it might make sense to think of him as this sentence from the ADL article suggests: “Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) are a part of the manosphere, a broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent movements that exist largely online.”
@EllenJS @lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco
Have no opinion. Just passing along different perspectives. Did not say he was an Men's Rights Activist. Said that the criticism of him is that he adopts a lot of their language and framing. There is a wide array of opinion on how to address this crisis and his prescription is not universally acknowledged. Others think a much harder line that doesn't acknowledge the persecuted male framing is a better way to go.