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Hey, I'm Amelia Moseley and you're watching BTN. Thanks for joining us again. Let's see what's coming up in today's show. We find out why it may be getting harder to predict the weather. Meet Australia's youngest Winter Olympian and learn about the life of living legend Jackie Huggins.
INTRO: But before we get to that, let's have a look at military alliances. Last week, the US president criticised some of his country's allies for not wanting to get involved in the war in Iran. So why would countries choose to team up or not team up when it comes to conflict? Here's Wren to tell us more.
JOE BARONIO, BTN REPORTER: If you watch TV shows from the 1950s, you get a fairly black-and-white picture of the roles men and women should play in a family. 1950s TV SHOW: Well, whenever we cook inside, Mom always seems to cook it, but whenever we cook outside, you always do it. How come? Well, sort of traditional, I guess. You know, they say a woman’s place is in the home, and I suppose as long as she’s in the home, she might as well be in the kitchen. This is what some people call "traditional" gender roles, with a woman as the homemaker and the man as the breadwinner. But it's something that society has long since left behind, right? PERSON: I feel like we've got much more diversity now in like, in Gen Z. I just think it wouldn't really work in our society anymore yeah. PERSON: I think generations like boomers then maybe more likely to have more gender roles embedded in their like lifestyle, I guess. PERSON: Personally, I think like older generations, like maybe boomers, because that's what they grew around. PERSON: But I also think it's passed down to our parents, so like millennials. PERSON: Yeah kind of like what they’re saying, like boomers, because I feel like now we like to challenge stereotypes and just go against gender roles.
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A recent survey showed a troubling retrogression amongst Gen-Z men in the context of romantic partnerships and desire. But why exactly is a progressive generation backsliding into preferring patriarchal relationship dynamics?
A controversial survey by the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London caused quite the stir some weeks ago. The college survey, ironically conducted for women's day, showed a marked reversal in the Gen-Z men surveyed about the kind of power dynamic they were after in their romantic relationships.
While I’ll get into the specifics of that survey in a minute, it’s also interesting to note that, right on the heels of this report, Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere, a documentary by renowned documentarian and journalist Louis Theroux (best known for his choice of controversial, unsympathetic subjects), examining the lives and reach of the ‘red pill’ male influencer dropped on Netflix. On the surface, Inside The Manosphere showed us the same situation from a different lens. It was meant to spotlight the heinousness and hypocrisy of this kind of ‘alpha bro’ influencer; to expose the fraudulent philosophies (and side hustles) they had risen to fame by propagating. It was meant to pull back the curtain on the horror of this growing cult, of young men that were drawn in by the misogynist ‘manosphere’, premised in the world view that the world was ‘feminist-dominated and oppressive to men.’ But when you look closer, the film points at the same thing as the survey; that a lot of young men across the world are leaning into this ideology. While Theroux’s documentary focuses on the most extreme end of this spectrum, and progressive men err to the other end of it (believing fully in equal rights, respect and partnership), the men in this survey reflect a sizeable section of Gen-Z men who fall into the grey area of this worldview.
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