Your title proposes this as some kind of reality check on Gen Z, but I don't think anyone was expecting to be saved by young women. The statistics don't lie, in both 2018 and 2020, they autopiloted straight to the Democrat straight ticket.
Whether Jenny calls herself Jimmy or not, she's still very likely to vote Democrat straight ticket.
What would be concerning is if young men are coming out of the indoctrination with a sort of Stockholm syndrome of considering leftists as their allies. We don't yet know if they are and the media is hardly going to tell us. Social media is dominated by women, so it isn't a good show of what's truly going on with young men.
If you take a look at the book, Shrier does confirm your suspicions that more and more teen girls are adopting these identities for the free perks.
So why is that worrying? Young women vote leftist anyway. Who cares.
Increase in rainbow mafia will have terrible consequences.
It is not just teen girls, it is also teen boys who are doing this.
Boys can see girls have advantages and will be incentivized to identify as MtF trans.
Rise in mental illness is never something we can ignore.
Your title proposes this as some kind of reality check on Gen Z, but I don't think anyone was expecting to be saved by young women. The statistics don't lie, in both 2018 and 2020, they autopiloted straight to the Democrat straight ticket.
Whether Jenny calls herself Jimmy or not, she's still very likely to vote Democrat straight ticket.
What would be concerning is if young men are coming out of the indoctrination with a sort of Stockholm syndrome of considering leftists as their allies. We don't yet know if they are and the media is hardly going to tell us. Social media is dominated by women, so it isn't a good show of what's truly going on with young men.
"if young men are coming out of the indoctrination with a sort of Stockholm syndrome of considering leftists as their allies. "
Look at the white male vote share for Democrats by age group.
This has been happening for atleast the last five election cycles(since 2012) and you can see it in the data.