Manosphere, Feminazis & the "Six Tribes" of Young People

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Society & Culture, Education, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Across the West, young people are finding it harder to build their careers, afford homes, and start families. But have we assumed they’re all the same, and been so busy treating the symptoms of their unhappiness that we've accidentally made them more miserable? A major new study has divided young Australians into six "tribes": from far-left student activists to family-oriented nationalists, from pragmatic strivers to the affluent and already comfortable. They have almost nothing in common politically, but they all want the same things: financial security, home ownership, meaningful work, a family. The difference between them isn't money or politics, but whether they believe the barriers in their way are within their control. Parnell Palme McGuinness is a columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald and a senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies. She’s previously worked for the Australian Liberals, our conservative centre-right party, and the German Greens. She joins Josh to explain the six tribes she identifies in her report, ‘Generation Trapped: Housing, handouts, and the collapse of young Australians’ life satisfaction’, and why understanding them is key to resolving the tensions simmering across the West, from intergenerational equity and immigration to the rise of populism.

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0:00.0	Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. It's one of the most
0:08.1	dangerous and uncomfortable phenomena in modern society. Why are young people so miserable?
0:15.2	Are the kids going to be all right? There's a new study that divides under 35s into six basic tribes, everything from
0:23.5	far-left university student activists to family values nationalists to pragmatic strivers to
0:31.0	the affluent nepo babies. They're all different, but they share similar concerns, the cost
0:37.2	of living, the price of housing, and they have different ways of expressing their worries.
0:42.1	Some of them are in the manosphere.
0:43.7	Some of them are Feminazis.
0:45.7	Some of them are far-right anti-immigrant people.
0:48.9	And all of them are people who we need to understand better, if we're going to hold this big, messy collection of
0:54.8	communities that we call Australia and America and Europe together.
1:00.0	Parnell McGuinness is a columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald, the largest broadsheet in Australia's
1:05.9	most populous city, and she used to work for the Australian Liberal Party, the Centre Right Party in Australia,
1:12.2	and before that, for the German Greens Party. She's now a senior fellow at the Centre for
1:17.9	Independence Studies, where she's conducted this research. The paper is entitled Generation
1:23.3	Trapped, Housing, Handouts and the collapse of young Australians' life satisfaction.
1:29.9	And Parnell joined me to talk about the sexual revolution, the plight of young women,
1:33.9	of young men, the economic anxieties of young people, and how we can best address them
1:39.1	to make sure that we're all better off in the future.
1:42.3	I hope you enjoy.
1:43.2	As much as I did, the one the only,
1:45.0	Parnell McGuinness.
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