Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it

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IwantToRetire · 21/12/2025 20:11

Well if this report is accurate, not many young women will be joining the dinosaurs on FWR.

Are the feminist politics of FWR heading for extinction?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ntqc

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it

A look at the leftwards move of young women and why media and politicians are ignoring it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ntqc

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ThePenguinIsDrunk · 21/12/2025 22:08

Haven't listened yet but will say I know plenty of younger GC and sex realist women who are left leaning. Remember that younger women will grow into middle-aged and older women too and I think the experience of having children and how they are treated in the workplace and life will have an impact on their views. I would also query how the women were selected for this programme.

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IwantToRetire · 21/12/2025 21:11

Abhannmor · 21/12/2025 20:44

Hmm. I listened to it. But young women swinging left doesn't preclude young women being sex realists , surely? There must be a cohort of them out there.

But the programme made the point that young women seemed to think the Green Party was the one most likely to help them as young women combat the sexism and violence of young men!

And if they do believe that, it is very confusing to understand how they could think that?

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BendoftheBeginning · 21/12/2025 20:53

Meh, I’m still left but I’m also a sex realist. I’m not going to be redefined just because I’m not a TRA.

1984Now · 21/12/2025 20:50

When the left are the most convincing they're the most virtuous, the most welcoming, the least discriminatory, the most empathetic, then this will be highly appealing.
Too bad the opposite is true.

Abhannmor · 21/12/2025 20:44

Hmm. I listened to it. But young women swinging left doesn't preclude young women being sex realists , surely? There must be a cohort of them out there.

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