How come girls or at least teenage girls are less interested in politics and what is going on in the world?

Question

Past generations struggled alot to get female rights and now many young women dont even use them. Why? (btw dont call me a sexist im just making an observation based on my experience)

Answer 1

As young girls, our focus is elsewhere, ie guys, personal looks, and not quite as focused in politics. As we mature, our interests will eventually shift to more meaningful things.

Answer 2

Part of it is that teenage girls/young women are bombarded with so many things (tv, movies, computers, fashion) that they are distracted by the "bright and shiny objects."

Part of it is that most of what happens in politics shapes things to come, which is hard concept for young people in general to grasp. Who your senator is seems too far away and removed from their lives. They don't realize that it's that same individual who will shape policy that will affect them down the road.

Finally, a part of it is that today's young people did not struggle to gain the female rights. These rights have always been there for them. They cannot really fathom how difficult some of the trials were. Past generations of women fought long and hard for basic freedoms that our young women take for granted.

Answer 3

i'm a 17 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous lady who's amazingly interested in politics. I actual have not been protecting at the moment, yet I do like politics. i love forming my own opinion and with the flexibility to have conversations with adults about what is going on. i imagine that is better exciting once you've a sort of open minded adults with distinct critiques talking to you sharing their suggestions yet also acknowledging yours and respecting them. they have an inclination to allow you to comprehend on subject matters that you're able to have not universal and bypass away you wondering better and some circumstances even better in touch interior the problem accessible. i myself pick to come again into politics because i'm getting to vote this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and prefer to be suited suggested. i imagine youthful ones many times are literally no longer as interested in politics. Politics has no gender. basically children seem better in touch on superficial subject matters.

Answer 4

I think most intelligent adult women have at least some interest in politics, even if they don't realise, there are politics in so many aspects of life.
As for teenage girls, ten years ago when I was at an all girls school, the only politics that most girls were interested in were who was popular, who to bully, which clothes were they going to tell everyone to wear etc. That isn't meant to be a stereotype, merely an observation from my own experience.
And the science bit, some research suggests that the parts of our brain that deal with empathy and reasoning from other peoples point of view don't work very well during our teenage years as the brain is too busy dealing with adolescence. So good news to all you teenagers, you have a scientific excuse to be stroppy and selfish. ...........OK........ I was only saying..... .......you don't have to slam the door...................oh god surely the neighbours will complain about the loud emo music.....

Answer 5

Because they're only interested in themselves.

Now here's an interesting thought. Would you argue that girls have to take an interest in politics because of the work of women in the past? In which case, aren't you shackling them to the ideals and requirements of someone else. Not men this time, but other women. You give them the freedom to choose, as long as they choose to think like someone else.

Surely freedom to choose means freedom to choose whether or not to be involved.

Answer 6

I'm going to be 12 soon, and I am extremely interested in politics. And my mother was a MAJOR feminist when I was little (in the 90's), so I am set on voting, and using all the rights that women have fought for us to have and use!

Answer 7

What?! Look at Hilary Clinton. That is a woman who is defintely into politics, and so are a lot of others in the country.
Teenage girls are interested in the outward appearance of things. Like boys who are so into their cars they don't notice if they are getting F's on their grades as long as they have the most expensive wheels on their cars. It is just a matter of being a child in a world that lets us be children. For way to long.

Answer 8

Most young people in general don't care about what goes on in the world at large, only what goes on in the microchasam that is their world. It has taken me years to make my woman care about anything outside of our house. Young peoples worlds revolve around them...not the other way around. People don't have to struggle to get anything in todays world. Apathy gets the best of people. Ask a teenaged girl about something fashion related and I'm sure she'll have an answer, ask that same girl who Kim Jung IL is and she'll look confused. The same goes for teenaged boys...though most of them wouldn't be able to answer a fashion question either.

If you want a laugh...create a petition. The title of the petition should be "Americans for stopping women's sufferage." Go around asking girls only if they want to sign a petition to stop women's sufferage. I'll bet you a dollar that 90% of the girls you stop will want to sign it to stop the suffering of women in the United States. If you don't get it...look up "women's sufferage".

Answer 9

im a girl, and im not even legally a teen yet, still only 12. im interested in politics, political science, world religion, economics, im one of the best students in my social studies class at school and i read up on politics whenever i can. for fun. so, your statement is wrong, unless you would consider changing your statement to "some girls". and most of the BOYS that i know are only interested in sports.

Answer 10

Because young women are expected to look good by the media, therefor they damage their health and relationships and lose interest in politics, whats happening and friendship. they are more interested in if people fancy them, and if they are thin enough. I ts terrible, but true. They arent trying to find who they are, they are trying to become a skinny, skinny makeup and designer clothes advertisment. Boys of a similar age have problems like these as well.

Answer 11

Im interested in politics but not deeply... I listen to the news and am currently up to date with whats happening in the world... but i have other things that i feel are more interesting than politics at present...