White Boy Summer just got extended for at least four more years. The War on Boys that started decades ago has finally ended; the boys won decisively on Nov. 5, 2024. Young guys (18-29) shifted 29 points to the right since 2020!
I saw this one coming from miles away. Boys, especially straight, white ones who can’t claim any special status as a member of a “marginalized” or “oppressed” group, have been cast as the bad guys in the modern world, and they know it. They know that in truth they are the most marginalized group in America. This is what the entire “Barbie” movie was about: Ken finding liberation from his oppressive pink Longhouse, discovering how to be a “real man,” and then getting his wings clipped again by Boss Barbie who makes him take off his cool guy clothes and start dressing like a flamboyant gay man again.
I know a tiny bit about young men. I have three teenage boys, and they were all ready to run through a wall to vote for Donald Trump. Only one was old enough to do it, of course, but all three have organically become huge Trump fans as they’ve gotten older and become aware of politics. My kids are not on X and don’t read my essays. We try to keep their lives mostly apolitical. They are aware their parents are Trump supporters, but we don’t talk to them about politics unless they bring it up.
And since Covid, they started bringing it up a lot. They became “based.” It is in the water, the online discourse, their friend groups, the “Fortnite” group chats, the powerlifting gym, and even at Mass. They discovered weightlifting. They became keenly aware that the world right outside our front door in our deep-blue neighborhood hates them. They lived through “Black Lives Matter” and wondered if white lives mattered. They endured years of movies and cartoons where the hero was a strong independent girl boss, and the boys were either idiots or inconsequential. They had to try to ignore “pride month,” when every identity except theirs was celebrated, and wondered when they were allowed to feel pride about being straight and white — can you even imagine?
They had to go to Boy Scout camp with female “Boy Scouts” and their female “Boy Scout” leader. My son was scandalized that the girls’ troop leader, a chubby, middle-aged woman in a G-string bikini, was parading around in the water when they were doing some swimming challenge.
In the spring of 2024, my oldest started getting all his college acceptances. He had a 4.3 GPA, a mid-1400s SAT, and tons of extracurriculars and leadership experience, great recommendations, etc. He was shut out of every single University of California school he applied to and USC.
I wasn’t really surprised. Berkeley, which is not allowed to ask about your race, did ask him to submit a video about himself. They have their little ways to find out if you meet their DEI quota.
They knew the country, at least officially, had rejected them for being straight males. They were the only group not allowed to have their own racial, ethnic, or “gender” identity group, and they felt it. It had dawned on them what role they had been cast in at birth: the enemy. The bad guy. The “patriarchy.”
My Gen Alpha kid, age 13, and his friends are even more right-wing than their older brothers are. They are leaning into their boyness and are going to destroy the cringe matriarchy with pure rizz and powerful aura.
At college, my 19-year-old, a first-time voter who had just voted for Trump in a swing state, watched the election on a huge screen at his fraternity. One hundred percent of the boys had voted for Trump. They got to watch him win this swing state and feel the thrill of being on the winning side for once. And as I wrote about recently, their shift has absolutely nothing to do with “misogyny.” That is utter nonsense.
I have heard for years about all the “virulent misogyny” online. People, usually women, tell me this and insist that men hate women and that the internet is a sewer of manosphere hatred of them. I always sheepishly shrug and tell them that I’ve honestly never experienced any — at least, not from men on the right. My handful of haters may hate me, but it doesn’t seem like it’s because I am a woman. Ninety-nine percent of my hate is from the far left, and — trigger warning — it’s mostly female! Why, oh why, won’t anyone ever bemoan the vicious misogyny on the left and among women at other women?
But there are some people who deserve young men’s scorn and derision. And yes, the real villains in their lives are mostly women. Let me clarify: The people who so effectively sidelined these guys are the army of leftist feminist women who do, in fact, run the world. They control the college admissions offices and HR departments, run their schools, and police their group chats and classrooms. The boys have been getting lectured daily by liberal women who have hated them since kindergarten. They don’t mock these women now because they are women; they mock them because they are lame.
Kamala Harris, like Hillary Clinton, represented the face of this oppressive, suffocating girl boss regime. Hillary was the old guard, the white battleaxe, while Kamala was the DEI face of the girl boss machine. She was absolute kryptonite to their sensibilities in every way — and mine too.
Having a female president one day would be fine with me and, I promise you, with them. But Kamala? She ain’t it.
We owe these boys our gratitude. In a poignant echo of June 6, 1944, on Nov. 5, 2024, young American men of every creed and color were once again called to protect the nation from being subjugated by a ruthless enemy.
Thank you for your service, guys. You did it.
