The Survey Center for American Life recently posted data with a title so controversial, yet so blasé and factual, that it took X by storm: Young Democrat Women Most Likely to Blame Men for Their Problems. 

The graph referred to problems women face in society, not their personal problems — but the nuance was immediately lost on scores of commenters, all excoriating young women for driving men away with misandric remarks, for being “anti-men,” or, generally, for destroying society. The same center also recently posted data demonstrating that Gen Z men and women are diverging politically at an astonishing rate — women Left, men Right. 

And both sides seem to hate each other passionately. The male side is, in many ways, fostered by the well-documented social media “manosphere,” led by influencers like Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate. It is predicated on the belief that feminism is ruining society.

The female side is less documented, but I’m more familiar with it. I fell into the “femosphere” years ago, and I haven’t escaped my social media silo yet. Five minutes on Instagram yields me content like—“feminist facts that radicalized us,” “The invisible cost of being a woman,” or even, “Men used to take parts of women’s brains out of their heads for daring to have an opinion”—a carousel about the mass lobotomies performed on women like Rosemary Kennedy in the early 1900s.

It’s changed me. I’ve noticed myself more agitated — more alert to injustice........

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