We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?
We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green? | Gaby Hinsliff
That's the laziest whatabout I've seen in days.
At the time of righting the upvote/downvote ratio is 30%, with a score of -4 so I feel it would be good if I make a comment here to say that this is written by a woman from England, so she is talking about people like herself.
I'll also share the following from the article to provide extra context:
Why isn’t this quiet form of female political alienation ringing more alarm bells?
But the failure even to be curious about what it is young women are trying to say, just because their chosen revolt against the mainstream takes a less aggressive or destructive form than young Reformers’, feels profoundly unfair. Sometimes it pays to listen to people sitting quietly at the back, not just the ones screaming in your face.
I'll refrain from expressing an opinion about the people who downvoted this article, since I don't know them.
This article is shite, voting for the Greens in the UK is not some radical act. For many many years they've been the only progressive or humanist political party available.
Source: used to live in Sheffield back when they had good coverage of the Greens, before the tree wars.
I don't think that is what this article seems to want to say. The greens aren't any radical left party anywhere (except maybe in the US where politics seem to be firmly rooted right).
I think the article makes the point of listening to young women more, who have mostly been forgotten in our discourse of political disparity in different age groups.
My only problem with the Greens is not that they're radical (which would be nicer), but that they're ineffectual. Our local Greens are twee bougie types who have never gotten their hands dirty. They seem deeply challenged when it comes to actually planning and executing anything. None of them seem to even know what project management is.
To implement effective change, you need to know how to actually get things done. But they don't even know that they don't know. It's deeply frustrating. Good thing most of our local Labour councillors aren't centrists.