We need to talk about femcels

Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want men with above-average incomes, but the gender pay gap has been reversed – young women now out-earn men. They want men who share their politics, but in almost every western country over the past decade or so, women have slid to the left while men have remained centrist.

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles. pic.twitter.com/kG4qQReqfT

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) January 26, 2024

This gap is intensified by online echo chambers, where women’s negative dating experiences bounce off each other. Netflix’s drama Adolescence has brought intense political attention to the so-called ‘manosphere’, which is full of misogynistic rhetoric and swayed by controversial influencers like Andrew Tate. Nobody is talking about its less-alarming parallel, a ‘womanosphere’, which appears to turn women against men at about the same rate as Tate et al isolate men from women.