The New Statesman

For years we've been wringing our hands about the manosphere,

the misogynist influences like Andrew Tate exploiting a generation of disillusioned and impressionable lost boys.

But what about radicalised young women?

New exclusive polling for the New Statesman has uncovered a huge difference in the

political, economic and social outlook of women and men under 30 in Britain, created largely by

women turning to the left. Could we be worried about the femisphere? Joining me to discuss,

it's Scarlett Maguire, founder and director of polling and research company Merlin Strategy, and our online editor Emily Lawford, whose brilliant report about this phenomenon will be out in this week's issue of the new statesman. Scarlett, you conducted the exclusive polling for this piece, and there are some really fascinating results. One of the starkest findings was how negatively young women feel towards men

compared with the other way around.

Can you unpack some of the stats for us?

Yeah, I think out of everything we found, this is what jumped out the most to me.

I think we're very used to hearing about young men's negative views of young women's

and sort of misogyny amongst young men.

But this really struck me because we found that, you know, 72% of young men have a

favourable view of young women, 7%, so not very many really, have an unfavourable view of young

women. When it comes to women under 30, only 50% have a favourable view. The unfavourable view of men goes up to 21%.

And then under 25 women, it's just 35% of young women who have a favourable view of men.

And if you go into very favourable, we actually use positive rather than favourable. But if you say very positive, it's just 11% of under 25 women.

So we are looking at an environment where young

women feel a lot more negatively towards young men than the other way around. It's really

interesting because I think if you sort of as a casual observer of some of the discourse about

sort of gender politics and particularly the manosphere, you'd assume that this sort of rift

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