The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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The Crisis of Adulthood — with John Burn-Murdoch

Explore episode Jun 25, 2026

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The 30-Point Gender Political Divide

At 36:28 · chapter starts 32:32

Scott introduces one of the episode's most arresting data points: a 30-point ideological gap between young men and women that has opened in both the US and Germany within just six years. Burn-Murdoch explains the mechanism: TikTok and similar platforms feed young men and young women almost entirely different content clusters, including political content that nudges each group in different directions without ever being explicitly partisan. This doesn't require anyone to radicalise — just consistent, differential exposure. The pattern holds across the US, Germany, South Korea, and the UK, making social media the obvious common variable. Burn-Murdoch then delivers the data correction that lands hardest: the popular narrative — that the divide reflects young men drifting rightward toward figures like Andrew Tate — is wrong. Young men have not become more conservative in most countries. The entire movement comes from young women shifting significantly left. Scott adds that this is particularly counterproductive for birth rates, because the data also shows today's fathers are doing more domestic work than at any previously recorded point — meaning men are objectively better partners, but the prevailing online narrative says the opposite.

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