Why Young Women Are More Woke

This is a clip from tomorrow's podcast with Eric Kaufmann. In it, he and Dr. Peterson discuss the current definition of "woke" and why young women tend to align themselves with this ideology.

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[davidcarp]

Being a woke woman is like being member of a club where you are always right and you have seemingly unlimited support by your peers. Support that manifests as social lynching and cancelling of people who threaten their cult.

[thistledownealli]

Because they don't think independently and are easily influenced by others. My Dad was always telling me to "THINK!", "FOCUS!", and to not be influenced by others - actions have consequences.

[dementiawavin]

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy." - George Orwell, 1984

[tylerwest]

Dated a girl who was in college for 6 years and it was hell. Every time anything bad was mentioned she would blame the “patriarchy” it was exhausting and she didn’t even know what she was talking about, she would just spit out these talking points. She thought the Supreme Court was all white men until I had to pull up all of them on their website and show the 4 women on a 9 person Supreme Court. This is just one example of the ignorance I dealt with. She told me about all her professors and them teaching her about all white people being subconsciously racist and that black people could not be racist. It’s insanity, we have an indoctrinated problem from our professors and teachers that needs to be stopped

[buckhorncortez]

WOKE:(adj) A state of awareness achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything but their own behavior.

[SydneyCarton]

I am a brown latino male and virtually every white girl who I had to interact with at university confided to me that they "hate white people". I left confused and then suspected that these same women would be hating other races if they were in Nazi germany. It is natural to love your own but they see it as all or nothing. Just because the Japanese love their kind and culture does not mean they have genocidal tendencies towards others without provocation. In any case, as terrible as the holocaust was, I find it far more disturbing to hate your own than to hate out-groups IF you are going to hate anyone.

[stephk]

Idealism over realism is a big problem right now.

[kayeallen]

My girls went to a Canadian Ivy league University, they were not taught, nor allowed to think. As if they wished a decent grade they had to show they believed the woke agenda, and as Breath requirements classes were also required to graduate. These political classes were masked as necessary and the more essays written, the gap widened between myself and them. Now they have no contact with me as I am the Problem, as their mother I am more conservative and every Ism and Istic they could label me, they did. I loved them through this, and realize now it wasn’t another phase. Now I wish I had never sent them to this indoctrination institution.

[StimParavane]

Identifying as a victim allows you to absolve yourself of the consequences of your actions. This makes life a lot easier in a superficial way. One problem with this is that you just never change or grow, but if you assume you are perfect anyway then that's not a problem (in their minds).

[josephvlogsdon]

I think social media plays a large role. Young people are easily influenced by those around them. It used to be that you were just influenced by your immediate family and peers, which could be both a good and a bad thing, but now young people are susceptible to a sea of misinformation and sophistry. I don’t think it’s an accident that wokeism took off around 2013, the year smartphones became mainstream. My sister has become somewhat more left-leaning because of the environment she’s in on TikTok. Women also tend to be more agreeable, so they are more easily influenced than men.

[condew]

Nobody who whines about the rights of "indigenous people" is ever concerned about the indigenous people of Europe and the UK.

[truxton]

Women look upon themselves as morally superiour, defend the weakest etc etc. But in reality I remmember back at school when the largest bullies were actually the girls, not physically but mentally, boys could be rough and argue with each others but the next day it was forgotten. Not so with women, one argument and they would hold grudges more or less forever, and their methods was truly evil.

[tsrocks]

I’m a woman and accepted long ago that other girls were never going to accept me. I was always bullied in school and rejected by most other girls my age. Even now most of my opinions make me too “prickly” to be friends with most other women. I’m blunt and honest, I think for myself, I don’t go with whatever the trend or popular opinion is, so for those reasons I can’t get along well with them. I think some women desperately want to be accepted so they just go along with things, they hate feeling rejected.

[atenas]

"ideology tells you who to be compassionate to" - there's a profound statement there

[derekmcmurchie]

"Misplaced maternal instincts" helps to explain it all. Once these women would have been looking after babies and small children and using up the reservoir of compassion and care within them naturally and not wasting it on Marxist-based malicious nonsense.

[SkywalkerOne]

My wife took an English class in college where she was required to write why certain things were bad, without being asked if they were bad. You'd expect this from kindergarten, not college.

[richardtardo]

The ideology didn’t creep in, teachers and professors imbued it from elementary school to college.

[saltyvalkyrie]

As a middle aged female US Army veteran, I do not understand this frustration or hatred that the young women are having with men. I must be getting old. During my entire life, every man I’ve ever had to deal with in civilian or military life, all the fellas cared about was if I could do my part or job. I always got paid accordingly and advanced in my career based on my performance. I’ve never known a man who had the interest or even time to be “misogynistic “ . I just do not understand these younger women. Instead of bitching about inequality, I was raised to get after it and work my way to my goals. Just like the fellas have to.

[keenanluciani]

I think much of this today has to be rooted in people looking for absolution from their own personal flaws and offenses. "Hey, it's okay if you're rude, lazy, ignorant, cruel, hateful, callous, capricious, or irrational. You're amazing, and you don't need to change a thing. All of your flaws come from the inherent flaws in our society, and the problems in your life are not your responsibility." I cringe at that idea, but to many it must be like someone offering them a mug of hot cocoa with extra marshmallows.

[cynthiaberardi]

Why women tend to support the prevailing ideology: can it also be their preference for following the fashions or fads of their times? To be joiners? To downplay their critical thoughts in exchange for acceptance into the group?