Canada’s recent federal election suggests a growing gender divide in political preferences.
Polling indicated women voters leaned strongly toward the Liberals, while an increasing number of men — particularly younger men — gravitated toward the Conservatives.
This polarization was not simply a matter of partisan preference but reflected deeper social, cultural and economic realignments rooted in identity politics and diverging values.
The gender gap also mirrors patterns across western democracies, where far-right populist parties increasingly draw male support through nationalist, anti-immigration and anti-feminist narratives, while women — especially racialized and university-educated — opt for progressive parties promoting equality and social protection.
I’ve got bad news for you: conservative (or whatever other self identifying right-wing) woman also say this. But the good news is that your friend-group is not necessarily representative of “the left”.
It’s also true, though. One is said nicely, one is said violently. But despite that, some women still spend an inordinate amount of time trying to bridge that gap. Books and presentations and workshops etc are dedicated to rescuing men. You just can’t expect this from every individual, that’s unrealistic.
Before any more responses show up to say “ah my leftist wife/friend says men are shit”, my wife does that too. My wife has a general dislike against men. That’s not news to me, and doesn’t change anything regarding what I said above.
The reasons women often say stuff like that are numerous tho, ie: men still make more money than women, hold far more CEO/COO positions in companies, have a higher representation in politics, rarely deal with threats of rape, are not trolled incessantly online, rarely face being murdered by someone they know, etc etc etc.
If men don’t call out the inequalities and women are vilified for doing so, who’s gonna force the much-needed changes we need?
Absolutely. Not only I think women are overly criticized for growing contemptuous of men, that too is dwarfed in damage caused by manhood. Like any violence-related metric, I think men are the biggest source of misandry anyway. Just like men reserve their love and admiration for men, their highest forms of hatred, envy and scorn are often also men. So it’s not like men don’t say things equivalent to “men are shit”, we do it a lot too - we just try to create a group for which that is the exception (and of course, including ourselves). For example, all this bullshit around “soy boy” and “alfa/beta/sigma”. This is just men prejudice against men, in roundabout ways tied to performative masculinity.