women moved left while men stayed sane because social media algorithms optimized for emotional reactions while society implemented more censorship policies
women are more emotional and reactive (higher neuroticism across every culture studied), so they got captured while men largely ignored the feeds (or got captured by different things: porn, gambling, video games, manosphere)
smartphones and social media built a culture where shock, outrage, and emotional bait won every engagement war and obviously women responded to it harder than men.
facebook 2006, iphone 2007, instagram 2010 all coincide with more female leftism. teenage girl's mental health collapse closely correlates with this too
the algorithms weren't designed to capture women but attention, and it ended up capturing the half more sensitive to consensus pressure first.
women also complain more, and in a feminized society complaints carry institutional weight. universities, HR, media, education, healthcare etc, every institution they enter bends toward what they feel. censor any disagreement that seems "mean" and you get an algorithmically captured society.
so they live in a made-up reality where everything validates their collectivism, their victimhood and their certainty that anyone who disagrees is evil (the TV and the movies and the media say so, so it must be true). four years of college, then thirty years inside institutions that never push back and you get this
That's an interesting chart. Young men have stayed similarly conservative for over 25 years, while young women have drifted much further left.
Why such a divergence? What has changed for young women that hasn't changed for young men?