Why Women Love Woke

The toxic relationship: mad and sad women go woke; woke makes women go mad and sad.

Two Graphs: one showing the growing ideological gap between men and women, and the other showing that politically left-leaning women are disproportionately more likely to have a mental health condition. In other words, women have become more politcally radical and more psychologically unstable. What came first? Did woke drive women mad? Or are mad women responsible for the rise of woke?

Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in the West and is responsible for 30-40% of chronic sick leave. Specifically, it is women and girls who are suffering the most. While rates of mental illness are rising for both men and women, women are three times more likely to experience mental health problems than men. They are also twice as likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and depression than men. Rates of self-harm among females have tripled in the last thirty years, and rates of suicidality have doubled.

This has all happened within a culture that professes to value feelings, emotional well-being, and mental health awareness. More people are going to therapy than ever before. More people are training to become therapists than ever before. These are all mostly women. Currently around 70 – 80% of psychologists and therapists are female. Those seeking help from them, are also more likely to be female. But it dosn’t seem to be helping. Indeed, one in three women will now take anti-depressants in their lifetime. Statistically, this must mean that many of the new cohort of female therapists will also be struggling with their own mental health difficulties. Depressed females are seeking treatment from depressed female therapists. It is not surprising, then, that women’s mental health is getting worse. However, women’s poor mental health is not worsening just because they are getting together and exacerbating their problems. There is a much more broader and underlying problem: their lifestyles are making them unhappy.

In the last fifty years, the amount of women in full time work has increased by over 50%. Similarly, in the last thirty years, the amount of women who are unmarried and single over the age of thirty has increased from 18% to 54%. It is now estimated that half of all of women aged 25 to 44 will be single by 2030. In short, women are working more and they are marrying and having a family less. Many people point to the negative effects of social media or the pressures of the beauty industry, as to why women are so sad, anxious, and depressed. However, the problem seems to be much more fundamental than this. There is now an increased pressure on women to focus on their careers at the expense of relationships. Meaningful relationships are what make people happy, especially women.

Women are now going to university more than ever before (while men are increasingly dropping out). It is in university where they come across ideas and perspectives that end up making them even feel worse than they already did. Feminism, Critical Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, Marxism: young women are encouraged to be cynical about the world, see oppression everywhere, hate their country, hate men, and hate anyone who thinks differently to them.

There is now a growing ideological gap between men, who are more likely to be conservative, and women, who more likely to be woke progressives. This gap is not widening because men becoming more right wing; it is widening because young women are increasingly adopting radically far-left political positions. Perhaps, given that more women are entering full time work (which some will struggle with because of their poor mental health) woke ideas such as harm reduction, focusing on emotions, caring for victim groups, and a critique of meritocratic capitalism, appeals to them. If men can work longer hours and work their way up the workplace hierarchy quicker than women can, it is easier to call this ‘patriarchy’ rather than confront the fact that men and women are different, and that many women cannot compete with men (nor do they want to).

DEI, safe spaces, therapeutic spaces, bringing your whole self to work, harm reduction, psychological safety, emotionality, conformity, conflict-avoidance: we now live in a highly feminised culture and this femininity has taken over the workplace. It is a toxic and destructive form of femininity and, ironically, the reason why so many women are making poor life choices that leave them unhappy and mentally unstable. If women want to feel better, they must first end their toxic love-affair with woke progressivism, which has plunged them into a downward spiral of insanity and despair.