Comments on: Is the current generation of boys becoming more conservative? And what of girls? https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2692196 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:38:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2692196 60’s and 70’s. Never mind the fancy talk.

Just mention modern art, civil rights, or primitive cultures and you’re in like Flynn!

]]> By: richf https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691948 Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:15:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691948 “…in the mid 1970s it was the reverse – significantly more liberal than conservative for the boys.”

In the mid 1970s, “Liberal” didn’t mean what it means now. Now it means “Progressive”, which is a different thing altogether.

]]> By: Abraxas https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691862 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 23:01:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691862 Many high school boys have other things on their mind. Others probably were annoyed by the question. Also, a lot of conservative young people don’t want to be seen as “Young Conservatives.” Their “conservatism” is expressed by not buying into the progressive orthodoxy and by not being overtly political. Activist young movement conservatives can be embarassing even to others who might share their beliefs but don’t attract attention by expressing them. I don’t know if you have the same phenomenon on the left. The most embarassing activists and politicians don’t seem to get much pushback from other progressives or liberals. The cringe factor doesn’t seem to be there.

Chesterton may have been thinking of his own milleu — the literary and intellectual “chattering classes.” If you were growing up in a farm town in his day, you could get a lot of rebelliousness out of your system by being a socialist, atheist, anarchist, or revolutionary. Today, we’re all living in the world of the chattering classes, and being conservative is a way of rebelling. That was noticeable even in the 1950s when William Buckley was becoming a cult figure. It is true, though, that plenty of today’s young socialists grew up at a time when Communism and socialism were assumed to be dead forever. They probably considered themselves to be rebels and non-conformists, whether they really were or not.

]]> By: JackWayne https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691855 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:30:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691855 Men have typically been the risk-takers in society. Your last paragraph hints at self-preservation/reluctance to be open. If that’s the case, then perhaps the feminization of Men is complete. We can expect the Gods of the Copybook Headings shortly.

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691839 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:23:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691839 At least we now have a snap shot of what the yutes are thinking. (Nod to My Cousin Vinny)

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691832 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:39:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691832 If we have youths committed to learning a trade, earning a living, being a father, being a husband, taking care of their property, saving money, not wishing for more than you can afford, controlling one’s appetites, having gratitude for the efforts of their ancestors and the gifts they have in the here and now, the politics will follow.

]]> By: PA+Cat https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691831 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:38:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691831 Did the pollsters limit their sample to kids who accepted their biological sex and the gender binary? Given the transmania of recent years, that’s a reasonable question.

]]> By: Lee Also https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691830 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:38:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691830 I write this as someone who was once a high school girl, though a looooooong time ago: High school girls are nuts. I was nuts in high school.

I wonder where all that survey was taken.

I grew up in a small rural town. The only girls in my high school who were nuts were the ones who were conservative. They were from more religious families, usually farmers, though not always. They had a better direction on what they wanted to do: Most went to college and majored in something useful, like nursing, engineering, or computer science. They got married at a reasonable age and had children. I envy them. In a good way.

]]> By: Eeyore https://thenewneo.com/2023/08/03/is-the-current-generation-of-boys-becoming-more-conservative-and-what-of-girls/#comment-2691829 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:30:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=127680#comment-2691829 And lastly, if a boy wanted to be rebellious in earlier years, liberalism or leftism were the ways to go.
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That was not true in the NY suburbs where I grew up. It was already “unorthodox” to be conservative. And of course, in college in the 1970s it was more so.

Actually, Chesterton noticed this when he came out with Orthodoxy in 1908. It was already a rebellious act back then.

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