I think a lot of Boomer male Trumpers think a lot like the Gen Zs and incels. People haven’t talked as much about that. In the case of one 64 year old man that I know, I blame FB and lack of sex in a bad marriage. I also think they resent the hell out of strong women and the younger men who they see as having it so much easier than they did/do and who they think are getting all kinds of sex.
I think a lot of Boomer male Trumpers think a lot like the Gen Zs and incels. People haven’t talked as much about that. In the case of one 64 year old man that I know, I blame FB and lack of sex in a bad marriage. I also think they resent the hell out of strong women and the younger men who they see as having it so much easier than they did/do and who they think are getting all kinds of sex.
I should’ve included Gen X, too. I’m at the end of the Boomer era so most of my colleagues were Boomer and X. I worked in IT for almost 20 years in the first part of my career. I thought we had made a lot of progress until I saw that the guys I was working with every day were heading out to strip clubs at night (or at lunch). Last time I saw this firsthand was 2014 and the Gen X guys were showing the Millennial (maybe some Z?) guys that this was the way to be a man in business. I realized then that we were backsliding A LOT. Then Trump and all these resentful men came out of the woodwork. I know it’s not all men but the tolerance of such a low bar for men and the acceptance of “boys will be boys” is so disheartening.
I think a lot of Boomer male Trumpers think a lot like the Gen Zs and incels. People haven’t talked as much about that. In the case of one 64 year old man that I know, I blame FB and lack of sex in a bad marriage. I also think they resent the hell out of strong women and the younger men who they see as having it so much easier than they did/do and who they think are getting all kinds of sex.
It is disheartening. But it sounds like you rose above it.
That’s a really interesting observation.
I should’ve included Gen X, too. I’m at the end of the Boomer era so most of my colleagues were Boomer and X. I worked in IT for almost 20 years in the first part of my career. I thought we had made a lot of progress until I saw that the guys I was working with every day were heading out to strip clubs at night (or at lunch). Last time I saw this firsthand was 2014 and the Gen X guys were showing the Millennial (maybe some Z?) guys that this was the way to be a man in business. I realized then that we were backsliding A LOT. Then Trump and all these resentful men came out of the woodwork. I know it’s not all men but the tolerance of such a low bar for men and the acceptance of “boys will be boys” is so disheartening.