DEBATE: Why Do Gen Z Women Hate Men So Much? - #1094
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Did you read this new statesman article? |
| 0:02.0 | I did. |
| 0:03.0 | Okay. What did you think of that? |
| 0:05.0 | I thought it was fascinating. I thought I was concerning, but also a little bit predictable, that women are, well, there was a lot in there. |
| 0:15.0 | There was, you know, women have a bleak outlook on life and that they are also spending a lot of time online, |
| 0:22.8 | which is making everything worse, and that they dislike men so strongly more than men dislike |
| 0:31.2 | women. I think that this is to be predicted by an evolutionary framework. Throughout human history, |
| 0:38.9 | women were very vulnerable because they are targets of sexual abuse. Because they're |
| 0:45.9 | reproductively valuable, they're smaller on average. And they needed assistance getting the |
| 0:50.2 | calories for themselves and for their children. And the data suggests women's foraging |
| 0:54.5 | isn't enough to sustain even themselves. So women who signaled their vulnerability through |
| 1:01.4 | looking kind of pitiable would have been favored, but also any display beyond that. So communicating sadness, communicating need would have been favored. |
| 1:14.8 | So I think this kind of tendency towards a bleak outlook on life makes sense. |
| 1:21.4 | And in fact, women perceive themselves around the globe to be less happy, less healthy than men, both mentally and physically. And so this is a |
| 1:30.4 | common pattern. And there also seems to be like a social contagion effect to it. So if you look at |
| 1:38.0 | women's interactions, when they are sad, their partners, whoever they're interacting with becomes more sad. Their depression |
| 1:45.8 | spreads through networks in a way that men's doesn't. So there's also like a social contagion effect. |
| 1:52.5 | So I think a lot of this makes sense. And then if you look at like the men hating, it also makes |
| 1:58.4 | sense that if women needed to signal their loyalty to one another, so if they |
| 2:04.9 | were often in these patrilocal environments where they weren't around their family or kin, |
| 2:09.8 | then one way to communicate to other women, you can trust me, is by being loyal, a really good |
| 2:16.0 | friend, but also probably being a girl's girl. |
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