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Growing Apart: Ideological Polarization between Teenage Boys and Girls

Drawing on a unique dataset of 130,000 Norwegian high school students (aged 15-18) interviewed in the period 1989-2023, I show that the gender gap in left-right ideology has surged over the past 10 years, reaching its highest recorded level (twice as high as among young adults). I argue that this development is driven in large part by a new wave of politically potent anti-feminism among boys. A growing percentage of boys believe that ‘gender equality has gone too far’, which is increasingly associated with right-wing identification. Employing a decomposition analysis, I estimate that the gender equality issue accounts for 40-50% of the increased polarization between boys and girls.

[...] Boys and girls in their teens might be experiencing an even more dramatic polarization than young adults—that could have lasting effects on their world-views. The explanations for why young men and women are pulling apart often revolve around social media creating separate online spheres for men and women; the rise of anti feminism among young men (Off, Charron, and Alexander 2022), in some cases fueled by misogynist influencers such as Andrew Tate [...] These forces are likely to make a stronger imprint on the minds of teenagers than on adults. First, because social media is their main battlefield, and teenagers continue to be some of the heaviest users of social media. And, perhaps most importantly, because teenagers are in their “formative” years—which is typically the time when people’s core values are developing, and they are more impressionable than later in life.

Norway is an interesting case in this regard because it is one of the world’s most gender-equal societies with a long-standing political consensus on progressive gender policies. One might therefore expect Norway to have an extra lawyer of protection against rising gender-based polarization compared to most other countries.

[...] My analysis shows that the ideological gender gap in Norwegian high schools has surged over the past decade, reaching its highest recorded level since the data series began.

[...] The suspicion that the recent gender-polarization is linked to the issue of gender equality is bolstered by the evidence presented in Figure 4.

[...] First, compared with the other issues, gender equality is the issue where boys and girls hold the most dissimilar opinions. Second, it is also the variable that has seen the largest gender gap increase among the ones examined here. The other variables either show modest gender gaps in the first place, little divergence over time, or both. These results suggest that the gender equality issue has the most potential to account for over-time changes in ideological polarization—if such views are related to ideology.

In combination with the fact that such views have become increasingly associated with right-wing voting, the gender equality issue accounts for 40-50 percent of the increased polarization

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BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

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BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

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Sad news for Hazbin Hotel fans! Showrunner Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano has been sucked through a temporal rift and has perished in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

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Idk anything about hazbin hotel except hotties are staying away from it so I'm avoiding it as well. Don't want to scare away lovely ladies.

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Heh

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#THE LINE THICKNESS...#CHARLIE'S YAOI HANDS...#fr tho i think there's no better proof this shit was rushed and those poor animators were underpaid

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The Show: Lute's a bigoted shithead who maimed Vaggie for not wanting to murder a child.

The Fandom: Let's ship them!

Me:

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hot take but u cant really say "separate the art from the artist" in the case of hazbin hotel. one of the characters is straight up a transmisogynistic stereotype. like what part of "drug-addicted prostitute porn star transv*stite who wears a miniskirt and is super raunchy and has a golden tooth and exaggerated chest" sounds, like, positive gay rep

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#it would've been charming if their speech reflected their cultures#too bad vivziepop is stuck in her middle school years

What's the point of having characters from different time periods when they behave and swear like they're edgy american teens?

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its practically an open secret that the creator of hazbin hotel/helluva boss sucks. i know artists who are familiar with viv's abusive behavior that are too scared to do anything because she can simply namedrop them and they'll be chased off of ANY website.

she blacklists people, she bullies people, she intimidates people, she's incredibly insecure and entitled. wanna know why most people who try to come out about viv's abuse tend to go silent? because she sends lawyers after them. I've seen leaked logs of what Viv is really like, she sucks, a whole lot actually.

I knew she sucked when she gave out that incredibly embarrassing "apology" where she plays victim, deflects blame, lovebombs her audience and doesn't acknowledge her more horrific behavior and zones in on minor instances like being a fan of blaire white (and funnily enough couldn't even be honest and admit she liked her! she had to pretend she was only a fan because she was "scared during political unrest")

vivziepop is an anti feminist. flat out despises women and worships men (but only if they're cis). she calls women she hates "bitches" and "cunts" and it bleeds into her incredibly misogynistic humor and writing. she's made comics defending catcalling women and transphobic caricatures of people she dislikes. she thinks trans men are "women with internalized misogyny". she makes man-hating female characters who are friendless losers that nobody likes, but her women-hating men are her personal favorite characters.

she treats her friends as people she can use and discard. she's great if she likes you, horrible if she doesn't. despite being familiar with how traumatizing cyberstalking and cyberbullying is, she weaponizes it against people she dislikes by playing victim. the scott cawthon incident was simply vivzie's mask off moment. she loves seeing people she hates suffer, she loves seeing them deal with mass criticism and backlash, even better if they're chased off the platform forever.

she thinks everyone who critiques her work are homophobic bigots because she doesn't like being told off for her incredibly embarrassing caricatures of queer men. she can't draw black people. she wrote an effeminate queer man with sexual trauma that she constantly sexualizes and makes a mockery of. her lead animator has a "rape ship" and an animatic to go with it that she approves of. She made gay nazi sausage party OCs. she's threatened by redesigns because they're done by artists why have a basic grasp of character design and unironically thinks they're only done to attack the crew (and refuses to stand against fan harassment because of it).

and also her design of beelzebub is still goddamn horrendous.

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You know Viv fucked up, when even her hardcore fans are starting to realize how messed up the leak and the context surrounding it is.

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still kind of stuck on that post from earlier but its really kind of haunting how many people on this site legitimately hate csa survivors because they think its 'annoying' how they rain all over their "kink posts" with their yknow. completely fucking reasonable rage at witnessing their life-ruining trauma be normalized. and these people can just slip this laundered pro-csa talk into general discussions about kink uncontested because they've already set people up with expectations of these palatable strawman concepts of what "antis" will say. really its so deeply manipulative and insidious it makes me sick to my fucking stomach to watch play out

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Hey kidcore/furry people, @toonimal or @critterkiddo on twitter was recently outed as a pro-contact pedophile and zoophile along with talking sexually to/about children on so PLEASE, please be safe and block him.

twitter post here.

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gonna say something controversial but true

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Hazbin Hotel?