You're Not Crazy, Young Women Are
Don't underestimate the most mentally ill demographic in human history
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You're Not Crazy, Young Women Are
There is a lot of discussion about the problems that young men face today. And rightfully so, 11% of young men aren’t working, going to college, or in job training. We can assume, that most of their time is spent in front of a screen, collecting some sort of government assistance.
Those young men who are pursuing a career, marriage, and family, are running into their own unique set of problems. College degrees are a debt burden that doesn’t guarantee a high income, high-paying jobs are more competitive than ever and young white men continue to be discriminated against in the hiring process, and the cost of living throughout the country is high.
I have written at length about these problems, and I have offered what I imagine are a set of rational solutions and guiding principles to getting out of the unique “trap” so many young guys find themselves in.
However, what I have yet to discuss—at any length—is the psychological warfare being waged on young women. The psychological warfare that has turned a generation of girls into murderous and mentally ill harpies.
When looking at the data, liberal women in America (ages 18-29) are the most mentally ill generation of adults in human history. I wish this were hyperbole.
Of the 42% of this cohort that identify as Liberal, over half have been diagnosed with a mental health condition in the past year according to Pew Research. When we zoom out, that’s over 8 million 18-29-year-old women in the United States.
The primary concern of these women isn’t family or finding a man they can start a life with. Their primary concerns are free access to abortion and progressive religion which prays at the altar of “oppressed” minorities.
How did this come to be?
“Toxic” Femininity
Suppose the negative aspect of masculinity can be represented in illogical risk-taking, antisocial behavior, and violent rage. In that case, the negative aspect of femininity can be represented by neuroticism, manipulation, and a desire to “mother” the world. At their absolute worst, both extremes are murderous.
When I say we’re living in a “Gynocracy” I am specifically referring to the social, political, and cultural prioritization of the most negative aspects of femininity.
We are not mobilizing troops on a masculine crusade to free the Philippines, or Cuba as we did in the early 20th and late 19th centuries. We are not encouraging men to venture into the unknown West to homestead and build new towns. No.
Our entire political and cultural conversation spirals around the neurotic beliefs and impulses of your average blue-haired “fuck the patriarchy” college-aged third-wave feminist.
The typical young liberal woman is not a happy person. I know, and have known many of them. The same patterns repeat.
They work a menial service industry job three nights a week while they go to school for a Sociology degree. They spend most of their free time going out to bars, watching true crime documentaries on Netflix, or messing about with a creative hobby they don’t take seriously. They date sporadically throughout the year but none of the relationships go anywhere because neither they—nor the effeminate men they date—want to get married, have children, or commit themselves to one person. A best-case scenario is that they will adopt a dog together. Her Instagram feed is populated by aesthetic arrangements curated in her apartment, quotes from terrible post-modern literature, or pics of her and her friends. Her captions and story posts always have an equal blend of cynicism, snark, and naked anxiety and depression.
The young liberal is not an evil person, nor is she necessarily unattractive. She’s doing what she’s been told to do. She gets a weird haircut and wears baggy clothes with a streetwear edginess. She takes an active awareness of social causes. She requires multiple “mental health days” each month to “stay sane” in a “late-stage capitalist hellscape”. She hasn’t connected the dots that her disconnection from the world, is a disconnection from herself. To admit so would be admitting to a cardinal sin.
If you’re in a position of power and authority, you’d be stupid not to leverage young women.
Men, for better or worse, are harder to sway. This is partly because we are natural hunters, providers, and leaders. We are pragmatic, level-headed (for the most part), and skeptical to ascribe a grand narrative to any specific cause of trend without detailed examination. We analyze and take action and don’t let emotional thinking cloud our judgment.
Young women have always been, and will always be followers. In a healthy society, there is an anthropological benefit to this. If men in a hunter-gatherer tribe say that the game is getting scarce and the village needs to move upriver, the women would be insane to object and march in their direction. The men, in this scenario, have the experience to lead their people. The women do not.
In 2024, we are reaping the political and social consequences of “women marching their own way”.
Starting in the late 1960s, American culture became disconnected from foundational truths regarding human well-being and societal flourishing.
Ideas that would shock 99.9% of human societies became normalized and accepted. These ideas have become so pervasive that we have to remind ourselves where the logic here takes us. This paradigm shift has most notably affected the dynamic between men and women—the reason you are here, the reason why any of us are here.
Some examples:
Young women should prioritize a career over family
Young women can and should approach sex like a man
Men are inherently dangerous, untrustworthy, and unnecessary
Aborting your child is “healthcare”
Women are an oppressed class and are stripped of value
Women, who are conditioned out of a survival instinct to follow, fall in line when the grand narrative shifts. To provide a counterfactual argument, imagine that a majority of men, in one generation, decide that it would be in their best interest to stay home and nurse infants instead of working to pay the bills. It sounds absurd because it is. This would never happen.
I won’t spend time debunking each of those bullet points individually. The correct conclusion can be reached within ten minutes of self-reflection.
At a broad level, the general thread that ties all of these ideas together is that womanhood and femininity is a psychological and physical prison, and that in order for a woman to have any self-respect or worth, she must behave and act like a man.
Obviously, this is impossible. Women, like men, can’t outrun or outsmart their hormones and inherent psychological nature. Of course, there are anomalies, but I’m looking at averages. Young women who try and act like men, end up confused, anxious, and mentally ill. This is because they’re fighting against their own biology. This is because young liberal women refuse to acknowledge that their biology carries with it its own set of personal responsibility
Young women, as much as you may not like hearing it, have become the class of “useful idiots” toward advancing a philosophy that aligns against their self-interest. They’ve become the most psy-opped generation in human history.
I’m not sure what the solutions are.
Growing up in a house with a strong father who loves his wife seems like low-hanging fruit. But even then, countless women who come from loving homes fall into a black hole of state-sponsored self-hatred in college.
My hunch is that this will be a recurring problem for the next few decades. It is unfortunate, but many of the women who swear off having children will regret it. A majority of young liberal women are going to abort their ideology into the abyss. They may connect the dots between their force-fed ideology and the economic, social, and political problems that make their lives more difficult.
For those of us—men and women—who disagree with the ideals of the young liberal woman mind virus, the best thing we can do is call a spade a spade.
The “Trans Children” issue doesn’t exist without young liberal women. The “Migrant Crisis” issue doesn’t exist without young liberal women. The 2020 riots would not have happened if it weren’t for young liberal women. The decline in educational standards would not exist without young liberal women. The voting bloc that drives the most destructive changes in our society is young liberal women.
As always, thanks for reading
-Joe
We used to “grow out of”. What changed to make this nonsense a religious dogma for life?
Watching young women fall into leftism, is much like watching a young minority male from a good, stable home, listening to rap music, dressing like a thug, joining a gang, and ruining his life.