While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a “matriarchy.” However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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    You know, protecting your wife and kids if it comes to that, not being an domestic abuser, etc.

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      Oh, my bad - these are obviously toxic examples! Or, idk, women can do both also? /s

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        I’d then challenge you to come up with some examples of normal feminity that men can’t also do, since that’s obviously an exclusionary factor.

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      Defending others has nothing to do with being “masculine”.