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Kamala Harris, like Hillary Clinton, represented the face of the oppressive, suffocating girl boss regime — and boys were sick of it.
White Boy Summer just got extended for at least four more years. The War on Boys that started decades ago has finally ended; the boys won decisively on Nov. 5, 2024. Young guys (18-29) shifted 29 points to the right since 2020!
I saw this one coming from miles away. Boys, especially straight, white ones who can’t claim any special status as a member of a “marginalized” or “oppressed” group, have been cast as the bad guys in the modern world, and they know it. They know that in truth they are the most marginalized group in America. This is what the entire “Barbie” movie was about: Ken finding liberation from his oppressive pink Longhouse, discovering how to be a “real man,” and then getting his wings clipped again by Boss Barbie who makes him take off his cool guy clothes and start dressing like a flamboyant gay man again.
I know a tiny bit about young men. I have three teenage boys, and they were all ready to run through a wall to vote for Donald Trump. Only one was old enough to do it, of course, but all three have organically become huge Trump fans as they’ve gotten older and become aware of politics. My kids are not on X and don’t read my essays. We try to keep their lives mostly apolitical. They are aware their parents are Trump supporters, but we don’t talk to them about politics unless they bring it up.
And since Covid, they started bringing it up a lot. They became “based.” It is in the water, the online discourse, their friend groups, the “Fortnite” group chats, the powerlifting gym, and even at Mass. They discovered weightlifting. They became keenly aware that the world right outside our front door in our deep-blue neighborhood hates them. They lived through “Black Lives Matter” and wondered if white lives mattered. They endured years of movies and cartoons where the hero was a strong independent girl boss, and the boys were either idiots or inconsequential. They had to try to ignore “pride month,” when every identity except theirs was celebrated, and wondered when they were allowed to feel pride about being straight and white — can you even imagine?
They had to go to Boy Scout camp with female “Boy Scouts” and their female “Boy Scout” leader. My son was scandalized that the girls’ troop leader, a chubby, middle-aged woman in a G-string bikini, was parading around in the water when they were doing some swimming challenge.
In the spring of 2024, my oldest started getting all his college acceptances. He had a 4.3 GPA, a mid-1400s SAT, and tons of extracurriculars and leadership experience, great recommendations, etc. He was shut out of every single University of California school he applied to and USC.
I wasn’t really surprised. Berkeley, which is not allowed to ask about your race, did ask him to submit a video about himself. They have their little ways to find out if you meet their DEI quota.
They knew the country, at least officially, had rejected them for being straight males. They were the only group not allowed to have their own racial, ethnic, or “gender” identity group, and they felt it. It had dawned on them what role they had been cast in at birth: the enemy. The bad guy. The “patriarchy.” --->READ MORE HERE
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