Social media is abuzz with a survey showing 12th-grade boys are twice as likely to identify as conservative. The reality is a little more complicated, writes Arwa Mahdawi
It’s hopelessness mixed with growing up being told they are bad and the reason the world is bad. I feel genuinely bad for boys growing up now. They don’t have the benefits older men had but they get all of the blame and negativity. I don’t blame them for feeling at least like the right might care about them more because the right doesn’t contain all of the male hate and misandry they face on a daily basis, even if supporting the right is probably causing them more harm in the long run.
It’s hopelessness mixed with growing up being told they are bad and the reason the world is bad. I feel genuinely bad for boys growing up now. They don’t have the benefits older men had but they get all of the blame and negativity. I don’t blame them for feeling at least like the right might care about them more because the right doesn’t contain all of the male hate and misandry they face on a daily basis, even if supporting the right is probably causing them more harm in the long run.