April 23, 2026 - For about the past ten years, the Communist Left has been running the same tired little hustle on repeat: men are toxic, masculinity is dangerous, boys are broken, and women are the noble, enlightened victims forced to endure all of it. Every cultural message it pumps out points in the same exact direction. Blame men, lecture them and shame them. Make sure they know they are the problem, then act shocked when they stop showing up.
Are we supposed to be surprised that young Gen Z men are looking elsewhere?
It turns out the modern “girl power” movement isn’t fun, uplifting, flirty, or even all that confident. It’s angry, bitter and joyless. To make matters worse, it is built around envy, nagging, emotional manipulation and punishment. It keeps insisting men and women are the same in every way, even though they obviously aren’t, and there is nothing wrong with saying that. Men and women are different. Period. They want different things and bring different energy. Period.
A new report is showing the obvious outcome of this hateful campaign: Gen Z men are tired of being treated like garbage by their female peers, and many are now turning toward older women. Why? Because older women are less performative, hostile, and less soaked in online feminist poison. Older women tend to be more open to actual warmth, kindness and connection. In other words, young men are going where the anger isn’t boiling over against them.
There has been this picture painted by the Communist Left that boys are spiraling while girls are supposedly thriving. However, the truth is that the opposite is happening and the emotional rot is oozing out of the female side.
If you have been on the Internet in the last decade, you will have heard that, as an archetypal New York Times opinion headline put it, The boys are not alright.
According to countless think pieces and Netflix dramas, most young men are spending their days indulging in violence and writing in online chatrooms about how much they hate women. In 2018, the word “incel” was a finalist for Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. In 2025, the Dutch Language Institute crowned “manosphere” as the emerging word of the year, in part, they said, because of the popular drama Adolescence about a quiet 13-year-old boy slaying a girl in his class because of something someone said on the Internet.
When you look more closely, you realize that, in fact, boys are doing swimmingly compared to girls, who have in aggregate become “Angry Young Women”, traipsing around the country in keffiyehs, screaming about formerly trendy Left-wing issues and how much they hate men.
The sad truth is that a whole lot of young women have turned into miserable little grievance mongers, and somehow that is supposed to be empowerment. It is not. It is actually a social disaster.
The emotional divide between young men and young women is now measurable.
Pollster Scarlett Maguire revealed just how dire the numbers are. “Thirty-eight per cent of men,” she wrote, “say they feel ‘very positively’ towards women, while only 18% of women say the same about men. This trend is particularly pronounced among women under 25, of whom just 35% feel ‘positively’ towards men.”
These numbers are worryingly low, given that young men and young women are naturally predisposed to at least try to like one another; but young women can sit and seethe all they want because while they are complaining about how unfair it all is and how terrible men are, by the latest accounts, their male counterparts have moved on to older women.
Young men are still willing to approach women with basic goodwill, while young women are being trained to see men as the enemy. That is where this whole thing goes off the rails, because you cannot build healthy relationships on that type of foundation. You cannot build families on it either. Logically, men are going to eventually throw up their hands and bail.
That is exactly what is happening. Young men are turning their attention toward women who are less hostile and more open to actual affection.
The New York Times recently reported that “older women are in demand by younger men”, adding that the dating app Feeld had reported huge growth in this preference in the past two years. According to a 50-year-old woman on Feeld, who chronicled her week on the app in an article, “After finding the courage to finally scroll, my first eyebrow raise came from the number of younger men that liked my profile. About 30% of them were under the age of 35.
“What is it they find alluring about the thought of being with a 50-year-old? Do they think I am rich and imagine I’ll take care of them? Do they think I am experienced and can show them a few tricks? Or is it simply that they think I would be grateful for the attention and therefore more likely to say yes to a date?”
A lot of these young men aren’t chasing older women because they are looking to fulfill some weird fantasy. They are doing it because older women are just. easier to be around.
While some of that may be true, and it is also true that some men like to be mothered in a relationship, the sadder and likelier answer is simply that they think that she will be nice to them.
When The New York Times interviewed young men about their reasons for seeking out older women, the answers were things like, “Because of a toxic dating world… they all hate us all. Social media is (about saying) ‘Men are trash.’ You know who’s not saying that? The older ones.”
Older women aren’t “ghosting me after six weeks”. Older women have more “openness for a relationship. A real relationship: exclusivity, something longer lasting”.
If you strip away all the feminist jargon and all the media hooey, the answer is super simple. Young men are going where they think they will be treated like a decent human being. Why would they go where they are not wanted? If that feels like a harsh reflection on young women, maybe it should, because being young and politically fashionable doesn’t automatically make someone pleasant, desirable or emotionally healthy. These days it basically makes her a social monster and a raging lunatic.
