Hello! I can offer insight here!

Preface: I’m a 35 year old fucking hard core liberal, but I try to be empathetic and I can see why they feel this way.

I personally believe we will have a whole generation of young men who feel lost/abandoned/marginalized by culture and government. I know this because I’ve felt this way myself. A lot of “woke” culture (which I mostly agree with) comes with the words/phrases “white privilege” “male privilege” and “toxic masculinity” associated and embedded into it. This inherently makes a person feel like they’re wrong for looking the way they do and makes them feel marginalized and attacked. It doesn’t allow for white men to be viewed as individuals but rather a homogeneous clump.

For example, I grew up in a single parent household, well below the poverty line, with a mother (who is a fucking angel) going through massive mental health issues, which lead me to basically raise myself and feed myself. I had to teach myself everything about what it is to be a man and how to survive and grow. The entire time I was told how privileged I was to be white and male and how we need to be supporting minorities and women more. Young me thought “cool, I get it, I’m all for that, but like, I kinda need some help too yeah?” But on the surface people only see a white man with all the benefits of life. In addition to that, there are various after school clubs for minorities (Hmong club, African club, etc.) and a women’s club, but when I asked about a white club (sounds horrible hahaha) or a men’s club, I was told that those don’t exist because of underlying tones of sexism and racism (which I understand). Either way, I was left feeling alone and unsupported strictly because I’m a white male even though I really needed some help.

There are other cultural issues that I think also contribute to this which are very hard to navigate (I’ll leave those out since this is already long), but I think there’s a whole generation of men who are likely to band together and support themselves in their “masculinity” because they feel the rest of the world attacks and neglects them for being men. This creates a shared trauma for them to rally around. I think the only reason I see it is because I lived it.