Only a third of young women hold positive view of men - new poll

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Just 35 per cent of British women under the age of 25 hold a positive view of men, according to a new poll.

The findings show only 11 per cent of young women hold a very positive view, while women under 30 are three times as likely to hold a negative view of men compared to the over-30s.

According to the poll carried out by Merlin Strategy for the New Statesman, young women “don’t care for” young men, believing the feelings are mutual, and citing an over-focus on sexual motivation and a lack of care about political issues, with women aged between 18 and 30 found to be the most progressive demographic in the UK by far.

The research found that young women are 26 percentage points less likely to feel positively about capitalism compared to young men.

They were also found to be much less likely to believe the economy works in their favour and far more pessimistic about their own and others’ futures. Even though young men are more likely to be unemployed, it is young women who are 21 points less likely to believe they will earn more than their parents.

Full article at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women-men-femosphere-new-statesman-poll-b2958208.html

I've been listening to this series on Radio 4 and the young women interviewed on that express this opinion as well.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5516182-radio-programme-discussing-the-biological-changes-experienced-by-girls-and-its-on-the-bbc

I’d like to think they’ll be able to avoid some of the pitfalls previous generations fell into, then.

I'm not surprised. The younger generation of men and boys seems far more sexist than their fathers (which isn't saying much) due to porn and these manosphere influencer types.

And sadly they cant go home and shut the door, because the moment they go on the internet they will be confronted by outright women hating incels.

I cant imagine being that age now.

Not sure I would have coped well.

I used to think my childhood and adolescent was boring, but now it seems preferable to what young women are confronted with each day.

Surprised it's that high tbh

I have found myself becoming just more afraid of men over the past few years. Even though I have very positive male relationships with my father, brothers, and good friends, and I was married to my late wonderful DH for 20 years, so I'm really really sure it's not all men. But it's hard to know which men. Now dating is exclusively through apps with strangers, I just feel very cautious.

The media paints such a frightening picture of men. Epstein, Pelicot, all this manosphere stuff with all these angry, frightening monsters shouting about how much they hate women, describing a world I don't recognise or understand.

I have seriously considered going back to church just to try to get to know some men who are on some level interested in good things and trying to be nice? But then the church is apparently full of pedos now.

I'd just like a nice man. I like sex, but I don't want to be choked or beaten up or pissed on. I don't need anything in particular from a man. I'd like to just carry on living my cheerful life, doing my job, baking, volunteering, going for walks with friends etc, but with a nice man too. That felt like a highly achievable dream 20 years ago - I met DH through friends and we had a good life together until he up and died at 40. I so miss the laughter and closeness and love.

I'm not in bad shape - I'm not making out like I can't get interest from men on these apps - that would be a silly claim. But... I just feel so cautious. Do men like that exist any more? What has happened to men? They all seem to have very complicated mental illnesses and baroque sex fetishes now. What is going on with men?

@Lelot It is demographics. All the good ones are still married and not on the apps. There are only the dregs left as single.
It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Keep looking, but don't get your hopes up, and concentrate on other things in life.

Re. the poll, I am surprised as many as a third of young women have a positive view of men.

Lol @ the people surprised by this

I'm not looking, tbh. I've got a perfectly nice life. I did try the apps for a bit but it's full of frightening men with anger problems and weird fetishes. Messaging me about vomit and midgets and screaming about anal sex. I'm just... no thank you. I blocked all these men immediately of course but I don't want even one message like this.

I'm just not really up for all that. I've got a perfectly nice life - a lovely home, a good job, lots of friends and family. I do think, though, that in the past it was a reasonable thing to find another adult who wasn't, like, personality disordered? I have quite a lot of lovely female friends who are single too and they're not going round committing esoteric sex crimes. They're just mainly going to work and joining committees to tidy up the local park or something.

I really think something has gone properly wrong. The world has seriously changed. Men have gone quietly mad.

Nobody has said they are surprised.

Most comment imply that the survey under represents the reality.

Although what is almost worst is that young women have this very low opinion of (young) men but still feel for status reasons or to seem "normal" continue to make being in a relationship with a man / boy important.