It is a striking graph. Among Democratic women over 65, fewer than half say the problems women face are due in large part to the behavior and actions of men, compared to just 16% of Republican women. But among women ages 18 to 29, the partisan divide is enormous: 66% of Democratic women blame men, compared to just 18% of Republican women.

Why do young Democratic women have such a negative view of men compared to their Republican counterparts?

Why young Democratic women hate men

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The chart comes from the Survey Center’s 2025 Civility and Morality Survey, whose published report on the poll does not include the chart or an attempt to explain the enormous partisan divide.

But the Survey Center has touched on these issues before, and its previous research points to three identifiable reasons why young Democratic women have developed such hostility toward men: ideology, demographics, and social media.

A generation of liberal women has been taught to understand the world, including relations between men and women, primarily through a framework of “oppressor vs. oppressed.” Men are the privileged oppressor class. Women are the oppressed class. Inequalities between the two are therefore presumed to be evidence of male power being exercised at women’s expense.

The Survey Center’s data show how thoroughly this worldview has taken hold. Sixty-six percent of Gen Z liberal women say they have personally experienced discrimination or mistreatment because of their sex, compared to just 34% of Generation Z conservative women. Liberal women of all ages are also more than twice as likely as conservative women to say that simply being a woman has made their lives more difficult, 69% to 33%.

It is certainly possible that liberal women actually........

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