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Poll finds that fewer Gen Z boys identify as Feminists than Millenials-- and the same % as Gen X.
(www.mensjournal.com)
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I don’t know how much I trust AEI’s motivation, methods or conclusions. The same survey also shows gen z are much less likely to go to church, less likely to drink and smoke, less likely to have a girlfriend/boyfriend…and gen x and boomers are more likely to do all of that. Is it true? Probably. But when you are asking a 19 year old and a 59 year old the same question…how do you even calculate what the answer means?
Currently Gen Z included aa young as 11. Are they polling 13 year olds? Because I definitely give zero shits what 13 year old boys think.
And are they polling teenage gen x’ers as well?
Teenage Gen X? Do you think they have a time machine?
Yes I’m joking because the very premise of comparing the age groups with specific questions is problematic. “Are you a feminist” doesn’t mean the same thing to someone born in 2002 as it does someone born in 1972.
If you ask me…a 40-something man, I say yes I’m a feminist because I want you to know I am an ally and support women. If you ask a 16 year old, I would doubt the word means much to them at all. But I bet they will be more supportive of women than our generation anyway.
Language changes with time, not with birth year. While someone born in 1972 certainly has much more life experience and context than someone born in 2002, the question today will mean approximately the same thing to both.
Not really, no. People aren't working off some master database of language that pushes updates out universally. They're working from their own understanding based on their own life experiences. Someone born in 1973 will have a very different socialization and bundle of personal experiences than someone born in 2002.
Actually, they pretty much are. Think about it: Language would pretty much fall apart otherwise.
Source: I’m a linguist.
Makes sense. If not, we'd see evidence of miscommunication in the world
True. Obviously we all know that never happens
It definitely won’t
I believe our adventure through time has taken a most serious turn.
Most excellent! 😁
-Execute them!
-Bogus. 😯
It's like they think 11 year olds are heading to the bar after school.