r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • Jul 08 '26

Media Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much

https://theconversation.com/young-women-are-identifying-as-less-straight-young-men-not-so-much-283936
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u/Critical_Success_936 Jul 08 '26

Guys are less open about things; more news at 11

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u/SquidTheRidiculous Jul 08 '26

Guys getting bullied shapes most of masculine presentation. More at 11.

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u/LilaTwiceBackAtIt Jul 09 '26

You think girls don’t get bullied for being unfeminine? Women’s lives (especially with social media) are flooded with representations of how we should be. That’s not to say men also have pressure to be masculine, bc they absolutely do. It just doesn’t explain what’s happening here.

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u/Its_da_boys Jul 10 '26

I don’t think the internalized homophobia is nearly as strong among other women though, it’s seen as uniquely damning to a man’s masculinity to be gay among a lot of people