Episode Details

On angry young women.

Ashley Frawley, sociologist and senior editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to delve more deeply into young people's political polarisation on gender lines.

• Why is there a lack of mutual understanding or goodwill between young men and women when we have never been more equal?

• Why do differing political views on anything from Israel/Palestine to Donald Trump cause such interpersonal rancour?

• Young women are centrally concerned with pain, trauma, and empathy – and see men as lacking. What's behind this?

• How is the conservative explanation (bad lefty ideas) just as faulty as the lefty one (patriarchy)?

• What will the political consequences be of gender polarisation?

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Links:

• Revealed: the new radicalism among young women, Scarlett Maguire, New Statesman

• Meet the Angry Young Women, Emily Lawford, New Statesman

• Why young women are so angry, Pippa Bailey, New Statesman

• Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”, Jack Davey, The Critic Magazine

• Why do young women hate men?, New Statesman, YouTube

• /394/ Girls, Left / Boys, Right ft. Nina Power (see for additional links)

• Girls and Boys are becoming very different, Alex Hochuli, Substack