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Kamala Harris hemorrhaging support among young men — and Planned Parenthood's deleted meme hints at why



Democrats are panicking over recent polling data indicating Kamala Harris is not only deeply unpopular with American men, broadly speaking, but increasingly with young male voters.

The Harris boosters at Planned Parenthood Action recently posted then quickly deleted a meme that unintentionally illustrated the alienating approach that might be causing Democrats' retention problems with young men.

The PPA posted the "Girl Explaining" meme, which features a disheveled young woman with an exposed midriff yelling into the face of an exhausted and ostensibly apathetic young man at a concert.

The misleading caption for the post was:

PROJECT 2025 IS A COMPLETE POLITICAL TAKEOVER OF OUR RIGHTS. THEY WANT DONALD TRUMP AND JD VANCE TO WIN SO THEY CAN BAN ABORTION NATIONWIDE. THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, TWO POLITICIANS WHO HAVE SPENT THEIR CAREERS FIGHTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.

Contrary to the suggestion of the pro-abortion outfit, Trump has disavowed Project 2025 and has repeatedly underscored that he would not support a nationwide abortion ban.

'They accidentally depicted the real state of politics in 2024.'

The desperate regurgitation of these falsehoods was not, however, the most telling part of the now-deleted post. Instead, Planned Parenthood appears to have shared a meme hinting at the obliviousness of the left to the numbing affect of its hectoring of young men.

While numerous critics responded by noting the "left can't meme," a co-host from "The Right Thoughts" podcast, who goes by Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X, wrote, "It's hilarious that Planned Parenthood misunderstood this meme format to such a catastrophic degree that they accidentally depicted the real state of politics in 2024, the poor unhappy boy being shrieked at by a woke girl."

Democrats' pro-abortion, anti-Western messaging and accompanying critiques of tradition, normalcy, and masculinity — both shrieked and calmly communicated — are clearly not resonating with a great many young men.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, recently indicated that there has been a profound shift on campuses, reported Vanity Fair.

'If Donald Trump wins, this is how he wins.'

"I've been doing this for 12 years. This is not normal. The energy is off the charts. You have a younger generation, Gen Z, who experienced a lot of — they would say — lies and deceit during COVID, and a lot of their life being altered," said Kirk. "There is this pent up 'rebellion energy' that has never come out."

Kirk noted further that young men

are profoundly more conservative than people would have expected and, in fact, are the most conservative generation of young men in 50 years. They want to be part of a political movement that doesn’t hate them. Those are their words, not mine. The cultural blob of all left-wing influence has definitely had an undertone that if you’re a straight, white, Christian male, that there’s something wrong with you. Or you must apologize. Or you're a colonizer.

The Guardian reported that in 2016, 51% of young men identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party. That plummeted to 39% in 2023, and now the majority of young men want to see Republicans elected.

The leftist think tank Data for Progress noted in a report Tuesday "a significant gender divide exists among young voters, with young men showing more conservative tendencies than young women." According to Data for Progress, young men are evenly split between Harris and Trump.

Citing the apparent expertise of John Della Volpe, Vanity Fair indicated that Democrats win when they secure 60% of the youth vote — but this is far from guaranteed. While Harris has reportedly won over young women like that represented in the meme by 67% to 28%, Trump is winning Gen Z men by 58% to 37%.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the growing gender gap extends to various issues, including two issues Democrats discuss ad nauseam on the campaign trail: abortion and student debt. Neither of these issues animate or mobilize male voters anywhere as much as their female counterparts and for good reason.

Young men have increasingly been steered out of colleges — adding to their disenchantment with leftist diversity initiatives — such that women now account for 60% of all college students and carry the super-majority of student-loan debt.

Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, told the Guardian that in 2022, 49% of Gen Z men said that the U.S. had become "too soft and feminine." Last year, she said that 60% of the cohort said the same.

Blaze News previously highlighted Democratic strategist James Carville's thoughts on what might be driving this trend.

"If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election," Carville told the New York Times earlier this year. "I'm like: 'Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'"

As if anticipating Planned Parenthood's meme, Carville added, "A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females."

"'Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'" continued Carville. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'"

Democrats' alienation of young men could preclude them from keeping the White House.

"It's extremely serious," Mike Madrid, a nominally Republican strategist who co-founded the pro-Harris Lincoln Project, told The Hill. "If Donald Trump wins, this is how he wins."

"This is part of a broader dynamic, a bigger trend that we've noticed and we've been watching for a longer time than both candidates have been on the national scene," added Madrid.

Mike Nellis, a Democratic strategist involved with "White Dudes for Harris," told The Hill, "There is an ongoing fight about masculinity in America today and the future of masculinity and I think Democrats as a whole have not done a great job of engaging in that fight and I think we need to do a better job of elevating voices that can go have those tough conversations in spaces where those people are."

In the final stretch before Election Day, the Harris campaign is reportedly making one final appeal to young men with ads on Yahoo Sports, sport betting platforms, and on gaming sites. Time will tell whether this was a more effective strategy than spending weeks accusing young men who don't like Harris of misogyny.

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Democrats are melting down because men don't like Kamala Harris. Their solution: Accuse them of misogyny.



Democrats are panicking over recent indications that American men don't particularly like Kamala Harris and are increasingly gravitating toward President Donald Trump. Rather than do some soul-searching or find a way to engage with this disaffected demographic, Harris boosters are instead dusting off a failed strategy that didn't exactly help Hillary Clinton in 2016: Accuse them all of misogyny.

The Democratic meltdown was fueled further by the telling results of a recent nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll. When asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, 51% of likely male voters said they would cast a ballot for Trump. Only 40% of men said they would vote for Harris.

This is more or less an inversion of the results among likely female voters, 53% of whom said they would vote for Harris and 38% of whom said they would vote for Trump.

Harris' relative unpopularity among male voters, particularly Hispanics, might come to bite her in swing states such Arizona and Nevada, where a recent Suffolk University/USA TODAY survey revealed that men under 50 are choosing Trump over the vice president.

Among Hispanic men ages 18-34 in Arizona, 51% said they planned to vote for Trump. Only 39% said they would bother voting for Harris. 57% of Hispanic men ages 35-49 said they would vote for Trump. 37% in that cohort said they would vote for Harris.

Among Hispanic men ages 18-34 in Nevada, 53% said they would vote for Trump, and 40% said they would vote for Harris. These numbers held among Hispanic male respondents ages 35-49, where 53% said they would vote for Trump and 39% said they would vote for Harris.

'The message is too feminine: "Everything you're doing is destroying the planet."'

A Democratic donor told The Hill, "Men are gone, at least for this cycle."

"I don't think people understand what a big problem we have on our hands with men," said a prominent Democratic strategist. "Black men, Hispanic men, men in general."

Democratic strategist James Carville understands full well the diminished appeal of the Democratic Party among red-blooded American men and has been sounding the alarm for several months. When discussing President Joe Biden's unpopularity earlier this year, Carville told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, "A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females" dominating the culture of the Democratic Party.

"'Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'" said Carville. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'"

"If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election," added Carville. "I'm like: 'Well, 48% of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'"

Carville stressed that "feminine" browbeating coupled with the left's "faculty lounge" attitudes and "woke stuff" is ballot-box poison.

Rather than address this underlying issue, Democrats have ostensibly worked harder to alienate men since replacing Biden with Harris on the ticket.

CNN host Dana Bash suggested around the time of the Democratic National Convention in August that to the extent Harris' party has attempted to appeal to men, it is specifically those with testosterone deficits and an aversion to the kind of machismo displays that helped make America great.

"There's the gender gap. Then there's the idea that for the last month, the Democratic Party has been rallying around a woman at the top of the ticket," said Bash. "Which is — the only other time they did it, which is in 2016. And it has been noteworthy to see how they are learning about what to do and how to confront Donald Trump as the opponent to a woman. 2016 and now — very different campaigns, very different female candidates."

'The not-subtle message of Trump's campaign is, "If you're a 'real' man, you're for me."'

"They are doing so in trying to put forward male figures, Tim Walz being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of players that came out at the RNC or might want to listen to that," said Bash. "But also, in addition, understand that it's okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman."

Democratic strategist Christy Setzer signaled to The Hill that Harris' disfavor with men will be spun as a byproduct of misogyny.

"She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency," said Setzer. "Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on this 'strong man' machismo and dictators act, playing 'It's a Man's World' at his rallies."

It's unclear whether Setzer thinks that getting up covered in one's own blood, then confidently yelling "fight" after surviving an assassination attempt qualifies as an "act."

"The not-subtle message of Trump's campaign is, 'If you're a "real" man, you're for me,'" continued Setzer. "That 1950s mindset is still appealing to some, unfortunately."

Jim Manley, another Democratic strategist, apparently got the memo, telling The Hill, "It's ridiculous to have to say this in 2024, but not everyone is ready to vote for a qualified woman to be president of the United States."

The misogyny narrative is currently making the rounds on networks ostensibly happy to overlook Doug Emhoff's history of alleged abuse.

'You just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president.'

"[Harris] has got such a big problem with men," MSNBC talking head Andrea Mitchell recently complained. "I think think there's an under-count of the Trump vote. I think there's misogynation in all of this. Black and white men: big problem. But also, the business world, they don't think she is serious."

The Guardian indicated that former President Barack Obama has been unable to contain his desperation, telling "the brothers" in Pennsylvania to fall in line.

"We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers," said Obama. "You're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I've got a problem with that."

"Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that," added Obama.

The Lincoln Project — an anti-Trump group best known for staging a fake white supremacist rally in 2021 to smear then-candidate Glenn Youngkin ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election, whose co-founder John Weaver reportedly had a habit of sexually harassing young men online — recently ran a pro-Harris ad, stating, "It's time to be a man and vote for a woman."

Time will tell whether American men will oblige Democratic strategists, Obama, and the false flag outfit and do as they are told.

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Game developer accused of sexist character design even though it was based on a body scan of a real woman



South Korean video game director Hyung-Tae Kim has been accused of making the design of his female character too much of the focus in his latest project, "Stellar Blade."

The role-playing-style video game focuses on the main female character, Eve, one of the few remaining humans left standing in defense of Earth after an alien takeover.

It is the character's design, however, that has some gaming critics seething over the apparent sexism.

"I play Stellar Blade for the plot," account ReignOfPride sarcastically noted to its 287,000 followers with an attached picture of the character.

Video game journalist Karim Jovian said that "Stellar Blade just has a stellar ass that’s about it." Of course, the game had yet to come out.

The game's developer spoke to Games Radar and noted that his character design has actually "become somewhat of a brave thing to be going for or attempting."

"I personally think that compared to movies, animations, manga and so on, people are especially strict towards games. In games, there's all the views that people have [which are] not always positive about unrealistically beautiful characters," Kim continued.

"Honestly, when I play a game I would like to see someone who is better-looking than myself. That's what I want. I don't want to see something normal; I want to see something more ideal. I think that is very important in a form of entertainment. This is, after all, entertainment targeted for adults," he added.

\u201cI play Stellar Blade for the plot\u201d\n\nThe plot:
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Aforementioned critic Jovian took to the streets of New York to ask residents about the potential sexism of the character and whether she looked like the real-life counterpart.

"She looks 14," a woman with green hair told the reporter. Another woman said that developers had "messed up" for focusing on the physics of "how the character moves."

Two other respondents claimed the game had "over-sexualized" the character.

Despite the disdain of the critics, the main character is actually rendered from a real woman, Korean model Shin Jae-eun. The collaboration between developers at Shift Up games and the model have been quite public, in fact, with the production team even releasing footage of the motion capture/body scan of the 32-year-old.

\ud83d\udfe1Wanna know a fun fact before jumping into #NewYear2024 ?? \ud83e\uddd0\n\nIn #StellarBlade, our protagonist Eve body figure was actually based on a 3D scan of the Korean model Shin Jae-eun! \ud83e\udd2f\ud83c\udf1f\n\n@StellarBlade currently has a release window scheduled for 2024, follow us to stay\u2026
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Shift Up games has faced allegations of butting heads with feminist employees recently as well. In August 2023, the company was accused — by a person purporting to be a former employee — of firing them for being a feminist.

"The company that made the game (SHIFT UP) removed the work of two women because they were FEMINIST. I'm a victim and a former employee of this game company," the now-deleted account wrote on X.

Developer Kim is known for producing content in an over-the-top anime style. His X account is full of age-restricted content and sexual images.

"When it comes to the design," Kim explained, "we put special attention on the back of the character because the player is always facing the back of the character when they're playing."

"That's what they see the most of, so we thought this was pretty important."

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MSNBC panelists' took turns belittling Florida's first lady on Saturday, characterizing Casey DeSantis as both "America's Karen" and as being akin to an antagonistic cultist from a dystopian novel.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Megyn Kelly and others quickly fired back, noting that the MSNBC talking heads' venom evidences not only their intolerance for strong conservative women but a fear of Casey DeSantis' efficacy as a mother, a wife, and a politico.

Former Republican Rep. David Jolly, voted out of office in 2016, and Tara Setmayer, the alleged-conservative Lincoln Project member who used to work for CNN, joined the titular host of "The Saturday Show With Jonathan Capehart" Saturday in watching an excerpt of a new DeSantis campaign ad.

Rather than engage with the political themes, which they cast as "dark," or address the specifics of what was said, the pundits decided instead to denigrate Casey DeSantis.

Jolly said, "Casey DeSantis is a fairly compelling political figure in Florida and now nationally. For many, she's the brighter side to Florida's angry governor. For others, she's become America's Karen."

Capehart laughingly repeated, "America's Karen," then noted Jolly had "taken his breath away" with this characterization of Florida's first lady.

Apparently this term was not yet in the MSNBC host's lexicon when in 2020 he raged against white women, suggesting that as a political force, they serve to enforce "patriarchal norms [rather] than dismantling them" and protect that system "where they and their children might lose the shared superiority and protection they get by being attached to powerful White men."

The MSNBC host, who elsewhere stated that men can be women, further insinuated white women maintain so-called institutional racism and that "the Democratic Party should stop wasting so much time on the lost cause of suburban wine moms."

According to the BBC, "Karen," used by Jolly as a pejorative, is a slang term "referencing a specific type of middle-class white woman, who exhibits behaviours that stem from privilege. ... 'Karen' is associated with the kind of person who ... is anti-vaccination, and carries out racist micro-aggressions."

The New York Post corroborated this reading of the term as a racial epithet, noting the term "has become social-media shorthand meaning a middle-aged white woman ... who makes a big fuss, and is not-so-blissfully ignorant."

Casey DeSantis, 43, is a mother of three and former news journalist who battled breast cancer and won. Extra to her successful career on television, she has championed various causes — such as cancer research and hurricane relief — for the betterment of her state while also actively supporting her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, both in Florida and in his current presidential bid.

While Jolly reduced Casey DeSantis' life, relations, and accomplishment to a single racially-charged word, albeit with a patriotic modifier, his co-panelist Tara Setmayer suggested Florida's first lady was a "Serena Waterford wannabe," referencing a major character in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale."

Waterford is the barren wife of the villainous Commander Frederick Waterford in the book, which was inspired in part by "the brutal Communist reign of Ceaușescu in Romania" and evinced a "treatment of women [that] is very Islamic."

Setmayer further claimed that Casey DeSantis "needs to cut it out," adding "there's all kinds of names for her."

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The Independent reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis responded on Fox News Monday, saying that he and his wife would wear the term "America's Karen" as a "badge of honor."

"My wife is an incredibly strong first lady of Florida, a fantastic mother and a great wife, and that threatens the left," said DeSantis. "So she and I kind of shrug it off because we know it just shows they view her as a threat, because the message that she was bringing in Iowa about the rights of parents and how we are not going to take this anymore with the left trying to indoctrinate our kids, they understand that that resonates not just with Republican parents, with independent parents, and, yes, with Democrat parents."

Gov. DeSantis noted that his wife is "a great advocate for families, a great advocate for children. And I'm thankful that she's my wife. And I'm really honored that she's willing to go out there and press the case. And so we wear criticism from MSNBC as a badge of honor."

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While the DeSantis couple opted to outclass the MSNBC panelists, Megyn Kelly fired back on her podcast, saying, "If [critics] were saying this sort of thing about a leftie, these same [commentators] would be outraged by the rampant misogyny," reported the New York Post. "But as always, it’s always fair game against a Republican wife. ... They hate her in a special way. It’s almost coming at her more viciously than with [former first lady] Melania [Trump]."

Kelly added, "I think the reason they are reacting so angrily to [Casey DeSantis] is they accurately perceive her as a threat."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) suggested that Capehart and his panelists' attacks on DeSantis were "classless, and consistent with that network's chronic and indefensible mistreatment of @MELANIATRUMP. All this is indicative of MSNBC's status as the unscrupulous media arm of the Democratic Party."

TheBlaze reported last month that the executive editor at the Daily beast targeted Casey DeSantis in a deranged rant, stressing that she had neither the ideological mooring nor the aristocratic bona fides needed to qualify for acceptance by the media and the political establishment.

Rather than "America's Karen," Katie Baker, the executive editor of the leftist blog, called Florida's first lady "the Walmart Melania."

"While Casey may be trying to position herself after Jackie Kennedy (good luck) and even Melania, if this weekend is any indication, she’s falling far short. It doesn't matter how many times she wears that ice-blue Badgley Mischka cape-dress. The DeSantis’ will never be Camelot," wrote Baker, adding that DeSantis could never "embody the class and effortless elegance of Michelle Obama or Dr. Jill Biden."

Baker made explicit her classist digs with an allusion to "The Great Gatsby," suggesting that unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional characters Tom and Daisy Buchanan — inheritors of affluence and wealth — "the DeSantis’ are more like poseurs," bereft also of the Gatsbian wealth that the Trumps can "retreat into."

MSNBC recently provided tips on "how to counter the 'tidal wave of misogyny' spurred by anti-feminist influencers."

While the guidance was tailored to younger minds, juvenile mindsets fitting to disparage a woman in prime time on the basis of her immutable characteristics, age, and political affiliation, might similarly be cured with "consistent and positive engagement with men who are role models for respectful treatment of women."

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22-year-old man admitted to local sorority chapter on 'non-binary' claim cries foul after the national sisterhood ousts him



22-year-old Fabián Guzmán was ousted earlier this month from one of the largest women's fraternal organizations in the world after its national office discovered he was neither a real woman nor a fake woman.

The so-called "non-binary" Costa Rican national is now throwing a fit and demanding that Chi Omega reinstate him.

Chi Omega was founded in 1895 at the University of Arkansas. It has over 402,000 initiates, 181 collegiate chapters, and 248 alumnae. It is touted as "an organization of purposeful women."

Guzmán, a man who refers to himself as a plurality, was admitted in 2022 to Chi Omega's St. Lawrence chapter, Epsilon Kappa, around the same time he stopped identifying as gay.

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He told the 19th, an apparent LGBT activist publication, that Chi Omega's national headquarters reached out to him in May with regard to his problematic membership, noting he should not have initially been able to rush.

After a series of online exchanges, in which the sorority allegedly indicated he would have to "partake in a two-step process of gender-based eligibility process," Chi Omega reportedly reached the conclusion on June 2 that Guzmán's membership would be voided with no opportunity for appeal.

It appears as though Chi Omega might have let it slide if Guzmán had pretended to be a woman, but pretending to be neither a man nor a woman was a bridge too far.

According to the 19th, the email read, "The selection criteria in the policy on membership includes 'females and individuals identifying as women,' which, by the chapter’s own understanding and your indication through the process, it is clear you did not meet the criteria at the time of joining. ... We are bound by our governing documents, and your membership must be voided."

Chi Omega's national office told the 19th in a statement, "In accordance with our governing documents, Chi Omega’s Executive Headquarters recently made the decision to void the membership of an Epsilon Kappa Chapter member at St. Lawrence University. By their own admission, this individual did not meet the criteria for membership at the time of joining. Chi Omega is committed to providing opportunities for friendship, personal growth, and development amongst women from a variety of backgrounds who live and reflect the values of Chi Omega."

Guzmán started a petition on Monday in an effort to cajole the sorority into: readmitting him; reinstating his position as recruitment chair of the Epsilon Kappa chapter; issuing a public apology that "acknowledges and validates those gender identities, like non-binary and trans, that identify as a woman and womanhood regardless of their sex assigned at birth"; and possibly amending the wording of the sorority's membership policy to make it possible for other men to infiltrate the once female-only organization.
In his petition, the foreign national accused Chi Omega of "blatant transphobia and bigotry," suggesting that his ouster during June, which LGBT activists claim to be "Pride Month," was "intentional."

Chi Omega is not the only sorority invaded by men in recent years.

TheBlaze previously reported that several former and current members of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming filed a lawsuit in March asking the court to void the membership of Terry Smith, a 21-year-old man who calls himself Artemis Langford.

Smith was admitted to the sorority last fall. He is six-feet-two-inches tall, weighs at least 260 lbs, and makes little effort to pass as a woman.

A source connected to the sorority who spoke with TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity indicated that Smith still has his male genitals fully intact.

Other KKG members claimed that Langford had become noticeably aroused when he watched women enter the sorority house. According to the lawsuit, on some occasions, he "had an erection visible through his leggings," while in others, he covered his groin area with a pillow.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit want the court to compel KKG to void Langford's membership and restrict membership to actual women.

The sorority hit back Tuesday at the women who sued with a motion to dismiss the suit, claiming that the term "woman" is "unquestionably open to multiple interpretation," reported the New York Post.

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