BY TYLER DURDEN
The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think through time and indoctrination they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population. Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last. However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.
Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive. And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past.
Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z. After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda. No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity.
Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.” Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive.
Gen Z men have been taught from an early age that they are inherently evil monsters that must be subdued and caged (figuratively or literally). They are warned that they will become “Incels”; dangerous landmines just waiting to explode unless they embrace feminism.
They are conditioned to see traditional manhood as a “social construct” that will ultimately end in a bullet riddled rain of toxic masculinity. They are told that the very root of their future happiness and sanity depends on leftist women accepting them as viable, docile and “safe”.
In other words, leftist women have positioned themselves as the arbiters of society by declaring they they will be the people who decide what manhood should be. It’s an interesting narrative. It is specifically designed to give progressives total power over the one thing that could destroy their socialist empire: Strong men who wake up one day and realize they are being treated unjustly and that the system does not work.
Female social circles tend to function on collectivist terms: The group determines membership through a series of struggle sessions and shame tests to ensure that new members submit to their control. Male groups determine membership by merit – Who is most useful, the hardest working, the most intelligent, the most able to move the group’s success forward.
Woke ideology is a vehicle for building a society using effeminate group structures. Most men are held back within such a system and left to rot, never fulfilling their roles because they are seen as threats to the power dynamics of the collective.
According to recent surveys, Gen Z is abandoning this feminist paradigm at record pace. In 2019 in the US, just one third of Americans surveyed agreed that traditional gender roles were becoming more popular. In 2026, that number rose to 40%; among Gen Z the number spikes to 61%.
The woke media is struggling to understand what is happening and trying to figure out how they can shame Zoomer men into coming back to the progressive fold. As Esquire Magazine asks:
“What the hell is going on with Gen Z?”
Mixed Media Magazine 