You forgot two characteristics of liberal women in general too! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously, how often do you see an attractive liberal woman. Very rarely! On top of that, the percentage that are gay or “butch” is statistically much higher. Both of those characteristics could explain low marriage rates and unhappiness.
When I think of liberal women, I think of purple or green hair, nose piercings, emotional and irrational behavior when confronted with facts, and a general disposition of being angry at the world.
There are lots of dichotomies in today's feminism that has been co-opted by Democrat extremism. Like how can any woman, much less any "feminist", support the destruction of women's sports by so-called "women" with dicks. And few people realize how the righteous original feminist goals of women's voting and equal rights have been taken over by Democrat and marxist anti-Christian, anti-family extremists like BLM and the discriminatory policies of DEI that place women in a hierarchy of "victims".
It's been an ongoing transformation of 50 or 60 years. For example, anti-Christian sentiment exploded In the sixties and seventies with the sexual revolution and when "the pill" came along, freeing women from the burden of unwanted pregnancy and usurping some of the need for marriage and beginning the decline of our mores. The Democrats pronounced "God is dead", and then came the rise of Planned Parenthood and our abortion culture. The "right" to kill babies, not God, is now sacrosanct for college educated women and feminists. It took many years but radical marxist ideology eventually took over our college campuses, inculcating and indoctrinating our youth and further changing our culture. For some reason women seem to be more susceptible. In modern feminism; motherhood is berated, narcissism is elevated and many college educated women aren't having children and now they want to call pregnant women "inseminated people". They hate the "Patriarchy" and talk about "toxic masculinity" and then wonder why they are still single. Few people understand the marxist underpinnings in all our "social" movements. They are all in on "DEI" and believe in "systemic racism" even though they are all white. Go figure. I doubt that any of the current "Karen" demographic is capable of changing and the future will depend on changing the college culture to not be controlled and dominated by marxists and far left professors.
Great article and very true also in the UK. My take, from first hand experience, is that many liberals are simply incapable of recognising or conveying good news. To display happiness, publicly, is a betrayal of their faux righteous indignation at (insert latest cause/person/everything). Which ironically denotes quite some egomania, since (guess what) no-one's really paying attention to you or your indignation. Public grandstanding achieves nothing, except doom you to misery.
Not just liberal women but the overall majority of modern women as a whole. However for the most part they do make the overall predominance of that proportion of unhappy women.
Because reality does not conform to modern women’s absurd and illogical social standards. Mixed with their abhorrent obnoxious behavior, unaccountability and blatant misandry no one wants to talk about.
Feminisms inherent blueprint designed was and is to make lies sound truthful, murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I disagree. I’m a woman and am around women of all ages because I have a public-facing job. I live in a center right area, although we have all belief systems and have many different ethnicities in my area. My friends, my daughter and DIL, the people I see on a daily basis (friends, coworkers) are positive, happy people. We don’t bash our husbands, we aren’t getting plastic surgery, drinking too much, or putting our families into bankruptcy for a $4000 purse. We enjoy being with our spouses and have groups of friends that we socialize with.
In my work, I see a lot of people that aren’t my close friends, and the ones that have a more traditional outlook are definitely more satisfied in life and don’t dwell on their frailties and problems. (I’m a massage therapist in a chiro office, so I hear a LOT). The whole toxic 4th wave feminist, ‘my trauma’ types are definitely not the norm around me.
Of course you do. However did you use any discernment and perception previous to your objection? Doubtful. It’s almost like clockwork nowadays. You can say almost anything objectively about women and somehow, somewhere some woman will come out of the woodworks and say she disagrees with you however in her whole entire prattle, she will prove your theory correct.
Thank you for proving my point. As a former Cop, Bodyguard, Event security, Grade school employee just to name a few jobs I myself as well have been around and interacted with many women of all age groups because of many of my public-facing jobs (I’ve seen A Lot also). You just confirmed that you indeed, including your small circle of friends are a minority which makes you an exception to the rule that I presented. And exceptions don’t make the rules. What I presented was predominantly talking about the majority of modern. Not all. Where the distinction between the two fell confusing to you is beyond me.
An overwhelming number of women on average 56% in America vote leftist(2020 election and 2016). Including but not limited to an 85% divorce rate lead also by women which has a mix of unhappy liberal and “conservative” woman inside that statistical data pool. Just with these two data points and in congruence with the article we can see that an overall majority of women regardless of left or right leaning are in fact unhappy. Not all just a majority.
Your argument for disagreeing is fallacious backed with anecdotal experiences as well as a personal incredulity. Anecdotally you used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument with compelling evidence. Your personal incredulity, because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true. It’s not “The whole toxic 4th wave feminist” movement. However feminism as a whole. Feminisms inherent blue print design in its infancy was and still is fundamentally arrogant, duplicitous, deceitful, hypocritical and primitive, among other installed disadvantages. Where woman on both sides of the left right paradigm spectrum find themselves falling to its toxic poison everyday. Unhappy woman types may definitely not be the norm around you. However if they weren’t the majority this article would be null and void and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Well-said once again, Ken. I can especially relate, in the here-and-now, to the notion of excessive self-analysis. I am a (lifelong, Buckley/Goldwater/Reagan) conservative man in red Indiana, while my wife is left of center. We are currently in a short-term (although not short enough) married couples program (at her urging) wherein participants are expected to relentlessly dredge up the saddest parts of our childhoods, our greatest personal failures and shortcomings, and the worst marital experiences we've been through. I never realized how miserable a person I actually am until now (LOL). I'm glad this class is not held in a tall building because I would have jumped by now. These 'struggle sessions' end this month and the finale cannot come soon enough.
Sounds unbearable, Mark. Maybe it makes a perverse kind of sense though -- if the two of you can suffer together through such a miserable experience, your marriage will be able to survive anything!
As a person who's struggled with recurring depression since I was about 10, I've thought about this a lot.
I think what Ken says about the political climate is the biggest factor. Even if you're very conservative, try a thought experiment where you imagine the world is heading toward environmental collapse, political leaders fueled by male chauvinism are bent on curtailing your rights (you don't have to agree with this framing, just try to imagine it), strangers on the Internet take delight in insulting your appearance and denigrating your values, and the post-Cold War liberal order that was supposed to ensure world peace, prosperity and tolerance is being undermined from within by nationalism, isolationism, populism, false nostalgia, misinformation, cultural fragmentation, anti-intellectualism and all-out hate. How would you feel?
I think the best solution is empathy. It's possible to respect the humanity in other people even if we don't share their values and beliefs. I don't consider myself a liberal, much less a woman, but when I hear liberal women are suffering my first impulse is to try to understand them and ease their suffering. Because I've been to that mental place, and trust me, it's absolute hell.
An interesting aspect of self-defeating leftist negativity, is that the commonly understood "solution" for one's unhappiness is found in "government largesse." If one derives pleasure from the "centralized control" (censorship) of opinions other than their own, and wishes for endless regulations and penalties for things that they find intolerable, then it's those individuals themselves that need to become "happy in their own skin." Sadly, it is those very people that want the world around them to accommodate the miseries that they have simply brought upon themselves.
Totally agree! The government shouldn't be in the business of censoring ideas, whether it's deleting misinformation from social media or banning books from school libraries.
This whole amti-DEI purge is anti-democratic and chilling. It's absurd too. I mean, removing a book of Thomas Pynchon scholarship from the Naval Academy library? You can't make that up.
Ken, as self proclaimed, biggest fan, I only have one big question from the story, the marriage factor seemed to rank pretty heavily in the positive for conservatives. Not hard to believe however, with a nation that still hovers around a 50% divorce rate, I would love to know where that number factors in to conservative versus liberals?
I would find it hard to believe that, although the conservative divorce rate is probably much lower than liberals, somehow, I think this really has to factor into the equation.
That is an old, outdated stat when divorce was very common over 45 years ago. Itis still up there, but down in the lower 40% range. Those that do get divorced, have a higher chance of divorcing again though upper 60% range...
You forgot two characteristics of liberal women in general too! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously, how often do you see an attractive liberal woman. Very rarely! On top of that, the percentage that are gay or “butch” is statistically much higher. Both of those characteristics could explain low marriage rates and unhappiness.
When I think of liberal women, I think of purple or green hair, nose piercings, emotional and irrational behavior when confronted with facts, and a general disposition of being angry at the world.
There are lots of dichotomies in today's feminism that has been co-opted by Democrat extremism. Like how can any woman, much less any "feminist", support the destruction of women's sports by so-called "women" with dicks. And few people realize how the righteous original feminist goals of women's voting and equal rights have been taken over by Democrat and marxist anti-Christian, anti-family extremists like BLM and the discriminatory policies of DEI that place women in a hierarchy of "victims".
It's been an ongoing transformation of 50 or 60 years. For example, anti-Christian sentiment exploded In the sixties and seventies with the sexual revolution and when "the pill" came along, freeing women from the burden of unwanted pregnancy and usurping some of the need for marriage and beginning the decline of our mores. The Democrats pronounced "God is dead", and then came the rise of Planned Parenthood and our abortion culture. The "right" to kill babies, not God, is now sacrosanct for college educated women and feminists. It took many years but radical marxist ideology eventually took over our college campuses, inculcating and indoctrinating our youth and further changing our culture. For some reason women seem to be more susceptible. In modern feminism; motherhood is berated, narcissism is elevated and many college educated women aren't having children and now they want to call pregnant women "inseminated people". They hate the "Patriarchy" and talk about "toxic masculinity" and then wonder why they are still single. Few people understand the marxist underpinnings in all our "social" movements. They are all in on "DEI" and believe in "systemic racism" even though they are all white. Go figure. I doubt that any of the current "Karen" demographic is capable of changing and the future will depend on changing the college culture to not be controlled and dominated by marxists and far left professors.
Couldn't have said it better.
Great post Ken! And brave, considering where you live! 😄 Blink twice if you need help!
Great article and very true also in the UK. My take, from first hand experience, is that many liberals are simply incapable of recognising or conveying good news. To display happiness, publicly, is a betrayal of their faux righteous indignation at (insert latest cause/person/everything). Which ironically denotes quite some egomania, since (guess what) no-one's really paying attention to you or your indignation. Public grandstanding achieves nothing, except doom you to misery.
Not just liberal women but the overall majority of modern women as a whole. However for the most part they do make the overall predominance of that proportion of unhappy women.
Because reality does not conform to modern women’s absurd and illogical social standards. Mixed with their abhorrent obnoxious behavior, unaccountability and blatant misandry no one wants to talk about.
Feminisms inherent blueprint designed was and is to make lies sound truthful, murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I disagree. I’m a woman and am around women of all ages because I have a public-facing job. I live in a center right area, although we have all belief systems and have many different ethnicities in my area. My friends, my daughter and DIL, the people I see on a daily basis (friends, coworkers) are positive, happy people. We don’t bash our husbands, we aren’t getting plastic surgery, drinking too much, or putting our families into bankruptcy for a $4000 purse. We enjoy being with our spouses and have groups of friends that we socialize with.
In my work, I see a lot of people that aren’t my close friends, and the ones that have a more traditional outlook are definitely more satisfied in life and don’t dwell on their frailties and problems. (I’m a massage therapist in a chiro office, so I hear a LOT). The whole toxic 4th wave feminist, ‘my trauma’ types are definitely not the norm around me.
Of course you do. However did you use any discernment and perception previous to your objection? Doubtful. It’s almost like clockwork nowadays. You can say almost anything objectively about women and somehow, somewhere some woman will come out of the woodworks and say she disagrees with you however in her whole entire prattle, she will prove your theory correct.
Thank you for proving my point. As a former Cop, Bodyguard, Event security, Grade school employee just to name a few jobs I myself as well have been around and interacted with many women of all age groups because of many of my public-facing jobs (I’ve seen A Lot also). You just confirmed that you indeed, including your small circle of friends are a minority which makes you an exception to the rule that I presented. And exceptions don’t make the rules. What I presented was predominantly talking about the majority of modern. Not all. Where the distinction between the two fell confusing to you is beyond me.
An overwhelming number of women on average 56% in America vote leftist(2020 election and 2016). Including but not limited to an 85% divorce rate lead also by women which has a mix of unhappy liberal and “conservative” woman inside that statistical data pool. Just with these two data points and in congruence with the article we can see that an overall majority of women regardless of left or right leaning are in fact unhappy. Not all just a majority.
Your argument for disagreeing is fallacious backed with anecdotal experiences as well as a personal incredulity. Anecdotally you used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument with compelling evidence. Your personal incredulity, because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true. It’s not “The whole toxic 4th wave feminist” movement. However feminism as a whole. Feminisms inherent blue print design in its infancy was and still is fundamentally arrogant, duplicitous, deceitful, hypocritical and primitive, among other installed disadvantages. Where woman on both sides of the left right paradigm spectrum find themselves falling to its toxic poison everyday. Unhappy woman types may definitely not be the norm around you. However if they weren’t the majority this article would be null and void and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Well-said once again, Ken. I can especially relate, in the here-and-now, to the notion of excessive self-analysis. I am a (lifelong, Buckley/Goldwater/Reagan) conservative man in red Indiana, while my wife is left of center. We are currently in a short-term (although not short enough) married couples program (at her urging) wherein participants are expected to relentlessly dredge up the saddest parts of our childhoods, our greatest personal failures and shortcomings, and the worst marital experiences we've been through. I never realized how miserable a person I actually am until now (LOL). I'm glad this class is not held in a tall building because I would have jumped by now. These 'struggle sessions' end this month and the finale cannot come soon enough.
Sounds unbearable, Mark. Maybe it makes a perverse kind of sense though -- if the two of you can suffer together through such a miserable experience, your marriage will be able to survive anything!
Thank you, Ted, and you are so right - talk about a stress test! I like our chances of emerging intact.
As a person who's struggled with recurring depression since I was about 10, I've thought about this a lot.
I think what Ken says about the political climate is the biggest factor. Even if you're very conservative, try a thought experiment where you imagine the world is heading toward environmental collapse, political leaders fueled by male chauvinism are bent on curtailing your rights (you don't have to agree with this framing, just try to imagine it), strangers on the Internet take delight in insulting your appearance and denigrating your values, and the post-Cold War liberal order that was supposed to ensure world peace, prosperity and tolerance is being undermined from within by nationalism, isolationism, populism, false nostalgia, misinformation, cultural fragmentation, anti-intellectualism and all-out hate. How would you feel?
I think the best solution is empathy. It's possible to respect the humanity in other people even if we don't share their values and beliefs. I don't consider myself a liberal, much less a woman, but when I hear liberal women are suffering my first impulse is to try to understand them and ease their suffering. Because I've been to that mental place, and trust me, it's absolute hell.
An interesting aspect of self-defeating leftist negativity, is that the commonly understood "solution" for one's unhappiness is found in "government largesse." If one derives pleasure from the "centralized control" (censorship) of opinions other than their own, and wishes for endless regulations and penalties for things that they find intolerable, then it's those individuals themselves that need to become "happy in their own skin." Sadly, it is those very people that want the world around them to accommodate the miseries that they have simply brought upon themselves.
Totally agree! The government shouldn't be in the business of censoring ideas, whether it's deleting misinformation from social media or banning books from school libraries.
This whole amti-DEI purge is anti-democratic and chilling. It's absurd too. I mean, removing a book of Thomas Pynchon scholarship from the Naval Academy library? You can't make that up.
Having one’s delusional beliefs constantly being challenged by Reality will do that to you.
Blame Indoc
Education
Media
Peer pressure
Been Lied to for over 40 years
Bad advice
The View TV show
Ken, as self proclaimed, biggest fan, I only have one big question from the story, the marriage factor seemed to rank pretty heavily in the positive for conservatives. Not hard to believe however, with a nation that still hovers around a 50% divorce rate, I would love to know where that number factors in to conservative versus liberals?
I would find it hard to believe that, although the conservative divorce rate is probably much lower than liberals, somehow, I think this really has to factor into the equation.
Thoughts?
That is an old, outdated stat when divorce was very common over 45 years ago. Itis still up there, but down in the lower 40% range. Those that do get divorced, have a higher chance of divorcing again though upper 60% range...
But agree with the rest of the question...