Is the ‘Gender War’ a One-Sided Beef?
26th October 2026
The growing divide between men and women has been in the spotlight of cultural commentary for years now, but a unique aspect of it is often overlooked: That divide, while real, isn’t equally caused by both sides.
A recent survey from the Survey Center on American Life has found that while 26% of young Republican men say that women are to blame for men’s problems, a staggering 66% of young Democratic women blame women’s problems on men.
Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising in a culture dealing with a dating, marriage, and sex recession, but it is disheartening. The reality is that we live in a world where bestselling books like “How to Date Men When You Hate Men,” and “dump him” sweaters aren’t so much controversial as they are superfluous. In many circles today, dating has been all but stamped out as a microaggression, annoying, or even … cringe.