Okay. Here goes my confession: I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Voted enthusiastically for Bernie way back in the 2016 primaries. Wanted him to run again. Held my nose and voted for Harris this past time. And I can't stand Trump. Some of his ideas I would agree with; for example, I'll give him credit for calling China our #1 enemy back in 2016 when everyone, Republican and Democrat, were tripping over themselves to sell off more of our country to them. But this dude as the standard-bearer for those ideas? I'll pass.

I hope I don't start a flame war for stating my opinion, and I respect that most people here would disagree with me on my politics, as I do theirs, but I think we do both solidly agree on the sexual and gender politics that this forum focuses on.

And the reason I'm outing myself (seriously, I feel like a gay guy coming out in the barracks in the 1980s :-) is because I wanted to answer the OP about why so many guys have become redpilled. If my liberal brethren continue to say that a woman who came from a rich background, went to an Ivy League school, and has a solid 6-figure job, is oppressed, while a guy from a poor family, who scraped his way through community college and lives breaking his back in an at-will construction job that he gets laid off from everytime the housing market cools, is privileged, then don't be surprised when your party loses that construction guy's support. Does being a woman mean your opinions are dismissed easier? Yes. Are there other disadvantages to being a woman? Sure. But do all those disadvantages automatically outweigh every other factor when it comes to deciding who's privileged and who's oppressed? Hell no.

The sight of a bunch of young women protesting on the campuses of Columbia or Harvard or some other safe, cloistered, Ivy League school, about their "oppression" while knowing their daddy's connections will land them in a far better life than the average male in America, repels men of all stripes to a degree that I think most of my liberal colleagues can't fathom. Calling anyone with a penis "the enemy" pretty much ensures that -- surprise -- they become "the enemy".

Anyway, that's my political analysis. I was amused when so many Democrats were shocked at how many young men voted for Trump the last election. All I could say was, if you tell men they're automatically bad because because of who they are, then they'll go to the party that doesn't tell them that. And every other issue, be it taxes, education, environment, whatever, that they might otherwise agree with you on, takes secondary precedence.

There's a great post in slatestarcodex about how this phenomenon works, specifically as it relates to young men and their difficulties in the dating world, and how that leads to wholesale conversation of their entire political affiliation. It's really good. I'll have to dig it up and post it as weekend content.