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The Focus Group Podcast

S6 Ep34: Why Women Don’t Need Men Anymore—In Their Own Words (w/ Sami Sage)

The Focus Group Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this bonus episode of The Focus Group, Rachel and guest Sami Sage of Betches Media wonder whether millennials are truly still ‘cringe.’ They also discuss the Gen Z gender gap, and how some politically moderate young women are navigating that political divide in their personal lives.

By Sami Sage:

In Paperback on April 28: Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Democracy-in-Retrograde/Sami-Sage/9781668053492)

Check out 'The Context', from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation: https://kettering.org/thecontext/

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0:00.0

You're letting me know that we're cool again because I just assume that Gen Z thinks

0:04.6

millennial is cringe.

0:09.7

Hey guys, it's Rachel Jan Faza here at The Bullwork, welcoming you to another episode of

0:14.5

the Focus Group podcast. You all know by now how much I love talking about the Gen Z gender

0:19.6

gap, how young women keep moving to the

0:22.0

political left and young men to the right. Today, we're going to focus on young women, which we

0:27.3

haven't done in a while. There's a ton of discourse about why young men and women are drifting

0:33.7

so far apart, at least when it comes to their politics. I've emphasized a lot of it,

0:38.9

and so has today's guest. My guest today is Sammy Sage, co-founder of Betches Media and host of

0:45.6

the podcast Morning Announcements and co-author of Democracy in Retrograde, How to Make Changes Big and

0:51.3

Small in our country and our lives, which is coming out on paperback on April 28th.

0:56.7

Sammy, thanks so much for joining me.

0:58.5

Thank you so much for having me.

1:00.4

I am excited to get into our chat today.

1:03.7

Me too.

1:04.5

And Sammy and I both love to talk about both on and offline,

1:08.0

the forces shaping young people's politics.

1:10.1

And I'm psyched that she's making

1:12.0

her focus group debut and bulwark debut here with us today. I am so thrilled to be here.

1:17.8

And I'm excited to take our offline conversations and give the audience a little, a little taste of

1:23.6

what we chat about. Totally. Me too. So just off the bat, Betches has historically been

1:29.6

what I'd say, a distinctly millennial product. It's been around since 2011 and you're obviously

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