# Preparing young adults for an uncertain future: education

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**Created:** [May 26, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412 "2026-05-26T19:23:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412/124 "2026-05-30T14:25:28Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> You don’t have to wonder too hard. Polling data exists. Even among its most popular demographic subgroups, even when they agree with the bits that complain about being ignored, even when they follow the feeds, the Tate style misogyny is disapproved of by overwhelming margins. That’s a portion of the thread that this came out of

You were talking about ‘Young men who voted for Trump’ who gave ‘Being married’ and ‘Having children’ as their important definitions of success, I’m confused as to why you’re now pointing at a general poll as anything to do with that. I’m suggesting that that _specific group_ is likely to disproportionately have issues with manosphere attitudes that are not going to be fixed by purely increased wages. In fact, looking at that poll, there’s multiple options that amount to ‘have more money’ but they’re lower down the list.

Listing getting married and having kids as a marker of ‘success’, especially among people without a potential spouse in mind, can be a marker for problematic attitudes in my experience. Yeah, they may mean it’s a part of the overall life they envisage, but treating it as ‘success’ can very much overlap with the ‘treat women as fungible objects’ attitudes.

Also, that cite says the rate of for young people agreeing strongly or somewhat with the statement to ‘A woman’s place is in the home’ is 18% for respondents age 18-34, with 13% for overall responses, with no breakdown by who they voted for. That’s a _lot_ more people than I would want to ignore as a small margin.

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