#Gen Z men say feminists have ‘gone too far’ for men to succeed: survey data

Generation Z — a k a anyone born after 1996 — is a demographic already obsessed over by millennials for their gender-bending style and progressive politics. After all, teens on TikTok were rumored to be the ones who bought out the tickets to President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma — and never showed up.

But new research suggests these woke folk might not be as “social justice-minded” as they let on.

“Young People in the Time of COVID-19,” a new study by Hope Not Hate, a UK-based charity that positions itself against the British National Party and Islamist extremism according to their website, found that half of the young men surveyed believe feminism “has gone too far and makes it harder for men to succeed.”

And it’s not just the Gen Z demo of “involuntary celibates” living life primarily online who think women’s lib could use reining in; more young people agree (36%) than disagree (35%) with the sentiment above, including 23% of women surveyed who agree. Plus, 1 in 5 surveyed disagreed that it’s more dangerous to be a woman than a man in the UK today — even while they expressed wide acceptance of progressive touchstones like using gender-neutral pronouns and the right of gay couples to adopt children.

The study, which also asked the 2,076 16-to-24-year-olds surveyed about their views on Brexit and how COVID-19 will affect their prospects, found that a large percentage of teens and young adults are apathetic about world events.

Some 27.5% of those surveyed were defined as “apathetics” while 10.9% are “skeptical ambivalents” or ones who have mixed views but generally think the government represents them well.

But the ones who are politically engaged are flirting more with conspiracy theories, watch alt-news like InfoWars and Breitbart, and half of the men surveyed, about 500 total, believe “political violence can be necessary in extreme circumstances,” researchers reported.

Hope Not Hate also found that men’s-rights groups and online forums that sow resentment for “liberal elites” are responsible for turning women’s quest for equal rights into a cause for concern among the male population. The same dudes who think feminism has gone too far agree that “you cannot be proud of your national identity these days without being called racist” and are twice as likely to crack a joke playing off race or religion. In short, they think PC culture and feminism are one in the same, and trust prominent YouTubers to “tell the truth” before traditional journalists.

The same group who thinks feminism is overblown were also more likely to agree — 35% of the anti-fem population versus 15% of all respondents — that the official count of Holocaust victims “has been exaggerated on purpose.”