Gen Z Women Are the Most Badass Creatures on the Planet, and it's Time for Everyone to Pay Attention

And honestly, if you don't? They don't care, and this is why they're about to rule.

There have been a rash of articles lately about “Cut Them Off” theory and other ways in which young women are disrupting dating dynamics that have held sway in patriarchal cultures for centuries.

This reflects what I'm seeing in my college students. Young women have just HAD IT.

And here's the really interesting thing:

They're not reacting the way many people (especially men) expect them to. They're not begging for attention or twisting themselves into knots to accommodate men; they’re not "communicating their needs" or "showing vulnerability."

They're simply opting out.

They don't seem hopeless or distraught or even particularly angry. They seem like this:

"He doesn't have what I want, so I'm gonna channel my energy elsewhere."

And then they do, and because all of their time and energy and self-esteem is not centered around men, they're doing all kinds of *other* amazing things and building these successful and fulfilling and spirit-building lives.

And men don't know what to do about it. What all this is exposing is that we've literally been living in a world whose social, political, and economic mechanisms have been dependent upon women’s willingness to self-sacrifice. Men could focus on their careers because their female partners gave up on their own. Men could abuse women they were dating because women accepted a certain level of personal and intimate risk—trauma, even—as the cost of securing a needed male protector and provider. Men could ignore and manipulate and control their wives because those wives were tethered to them by children and by the financial need created by sacrificing their own success in order to support their husbands’.

Young women are withdrawing the power source that fuels that status-quo, and they’re altering the entire societal premise. And nobody knows what to do about it.

They’re looking at a society that doesn’t support young mothers and saying, “Fine, we won’t have babies.”

When the backlash to that came in the form of increasingly-restricted reproductive freedoms, they said, “Fine, we won’t have sex.”

When men continued to expect easy and non-committal sex even under these conditions, they said, “Fine, we won’t hang out with men.”

And here’s where the REAL GALL of these young women is made manifest:

They’re FINE. They’re way better than fine; they’re happy and thriving and succeeding and building rich and interesting and successful lives both individually and collectively.

Young women have always been wired for friendship; they’re now stepping into not only the emotional benefits but the societal and political power that wiring affords them.

And while the Incel chat rooms and the dude-bro podcasters and the conservative Christian churches are radicalizing young men in nefarious and violent and increasingly LOUD voices, young women are quietly telling each other this:

So that economy doesn’t really work, does it. I mean not in the way it used to. It is, however, working REALLY WELL for young women: look at the statistics.

So men have some choices to make now. They can honestly confront and work to dismantle the systems of unchecked privilege that have led to where we are right now, or they can continue to wail about the male loneliness epidemic and beat their chests in the locker rooms and the subreddits, from their gaming chairs and their church pews and the lonely basements of Tinder.

But here’s the thing: They better get “real real” about the total non-effect all this whining and aggression amounts to, because the girls simply don’t care. They’ve already moved on.