The Real Divide Isn’t Red v. Blue — It’s Male v. Female | The American Spectator

There was a gender gap in the 2024 presidential election: young women leaned Democrat and young men leaned Republican. But the real story isn’t about Democrats versus Republicans, or conservatives versus progressives — though elites would prefer we keep fighting on those lines. The deeper divide is sex itself. Cultural messages now tell young women to reject their own biology, to distrust their femininity, and to treat the very things that make them distinct — fertility, emotionality, and nurturing proclivities — as defects to be fixed. That message breeds confusion, alienation, and ultimately the displacement of men.

The imbalance is clearly visible online. Social media platforms, especially TikTok, are full of Gen Z women identifying as LGBTQ or transgender; it is where these communities are located. And the “boys in girls’ sports” debate in political media acknowledges the absurdity of female-identifying men commandeering women’s spaces, but it rushes to stop the bleeding rather than ask what caused this splice in biological reality in the first place. Let’s not forget the “non-binary” craze either, which aimed to convince us that there were more than just two genders to pit against each other. This isn’t a coincidence; it’s cultural engineering. (RELATED: Furries Are Having a Dangerous Cultural Moment)

The prevailing message in classrooms and entertainment tells girls that womanhood itself is an obstacle to empowerment. The traditional path of creation, family, and motherhood is painted as backward, even oppressive, and social media amplifies this message to the point of social contagion. The “liberated” path is self-rejection, celibacy, unconditional sex, or endless self-redefinition. (RELATED: Why Conservatives Need Traditional Gender Roles)

And yet this so-called “liberation” produces not wholeness but division. Men, seeing their roles diminished or maligned, grow resentful and confused about where they fit. Many retreat into isolation, cynicism, or politics defined by grievance. Women, meanwhile, are told to see men as oppressors or competitors. The resulting gender hostility replaces the natural complementarity that once bound civilization together. (RELATED: The False Prophet of the Digital Right: What Nick Fuentes Really Sells)

This is the true political alignment. It’s not red states versus blue, it’s the frayed bond between men and women, the oldest alliance in human history, driving today’s turmoil. The elites who benefit from polarization know this. They prefer us distracted by partisan shouting matches rather than seeing the deeper fracture they’ve cultivated. If men and women no longer trust or need one another, they become easier to manage. Atomized individuals, detached from family and tradition, depend more on the state and its corporate partners for identity, provision, and meaning.

The social logic is cruel but simple: a population divided along gender lines cannot reproduce its own culture. Families fragment, birth rates collapse, and the next generation narrows the funnel. There will be fewer people as the doom spiral of America in decline continues, and they will be more isolated and dependent on the government. The fewer people who are grounded in strong families, faith communities, and intergenerational ties, the easier they are to control. A society that forgets how to create — biologically, spiritually, and culturally — becomes one that those in power can administer indefinitely. (RELATED: This Is What Civilizational Suicide Looks Like)

This isn’t about some shadowy conspiracy; it’s about incentives. Power concentrates when people lose confidence in the natural order of creation. When men believe their masculinity is toxic, and women are told their femininity is a social construct, the result is uprooted people. The words may change, but the same message prevails, tightening the funnel; it creates a society more loyal to bureaucracies than to one another.

The way out isn’t more bitterness or gender wars. It is not a piece of legislation or a federal mandate. To restore the most basic level of civil society, we must start exercising it again. It must begin with the individual for the individual to regain civic power; the government does not have the authority to give us our power. Men and women need each other. Always have, always will. Every healthy civilization knows this. We are meant to balance one another — strength and compassion, protection and nurture, logic and empathy. When either sex is shamed for living out its design, the whole society suffers.

The antidote to our cultural sickness isn’t destruction; it’s creation. It’s family, faith, community, and purpose rooted in reality. To rebuild that, we can’t wait for someone else’s permission. We must reject the lie that freedom means denial of our nature. Women must refute the reflex to declare that they don’t need a man, and men must be ready to admit they are incomplete without a woman. Freedom comes from accepting truth, not escaping it.

So, let the pundits keep arguing about blue versus red. The real conflict, and the real hope, lies deeper. It lies in whether men and women will remember that they are not enemies but partners, co-creators of life and civilization itself. When they do, no elite, no bureaucracy, and no ideology will ever control them again.

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Julianna Frieman is a writer based in North Carolina. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is pursuing her master’s degree in Communications (Digital Strategy) at the University of Florida. Her work has been published by the Daily Caller, The American Spectator, and The Federalist. Follow her on X at @juliannafrieman.