By Selwyn Duke
More than 50 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem, a 2020 Pew Research Center study found. What’s scarier still, the joke goes, is that this means close to 50 percent are running around undiagnosed.
This is a not uncommon joke for a reason. Observing leftist white women’s behavior during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation hearings, commentator Megan Fox identified the problem. “Screeching gorgons” are afoot, she wrote. Referencing those taking the lead in 2020’s left-wing protests, pundit Andrea Widburg fingered “hysterically angry white women” (HAWW). And millions of others speak of ever troublesome “Karens.”
Now we’re seeing the next iteration, Widburg states: HAWW 2.0 (or is it 3.0)? Writing Saturday, she mentioned that during the George Floyd protests we witnessed how these women aren’t just obnoxious. As Widburg put it:
Instead, they were crazed harpies, screaming at the top of their lungs, their faces contorted with rage, and often engaging in physical violence. Hysteria seemed too mild a term to describe their outbursts, all of which were in service to the most extreme forms of leftist ideology.
Incredibly, these women got even worse during recent times’ pro-Hamas protests, Widburg asserts. She then continued:
Now, in 2026, because the impossible is never a barrier for leftism, these women have somehow managed to become even more emotionally incontinent.
While comedically put, there’s a reality here. I’ve long emphasized that what we call “leftism” today is actually movement toward moral disorder. Just as a house or car left sitting for years without maintenance (energy application) deteriorates, so do cultures and countries.
And mental states can, too.
Without the benefit of good moral habits (i.e., virtues) and effort to maintain them, minds move toward moral disorder. In theological circles this is called “disordered thinking.”
Disordered Feelings — and Feelers
As a case in point, Widburg mentions the activist shot in Minneapolis, Renee Good, and her lesbian lover, Rebecca. They believed rules didn’t apply to them, she states. Realize, too, that Good reacted when confronted by ICE’s lawful commands with emotion and panic.
Widburg then presented some entries from the HAWW files. First there’s the distraught woman below. She’s not just upset about Good’s passing, but feels guilty because her “white tears are not always helpful.”
Note that she says “I feel like…,” not “I think.” This reflects emphasis on feelings, which predominates today; it’s also characteristically female, bespeaking of emotion-based decision making.
The next entry is the foul-mouthed (yes: language warning), twisted, hostile soul below.
Notice that she angrily mentions her father and little brother. This is common: Such women often have “daddy issues.”
Widburg also presents HAWWs in high places. First there’s Seattle’s mayor (below) encouraging constituents to resist ICE. Perhaps she craves her own local Renee Good situation.
Then there’s NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti-white “tenant advocate,” Cea Weaver, whom I wrote about last week. She’s apparently so unstable that asking her a question evokes tears.
Finally, proving there’s diversity in the HAWW ranks, there’s Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal. She has the delusion that her agency can arrest ICE agents (the actual Philly police say otherwise).
Not Just Outliers
The preceding reflect more than just anecdotes, too, as the below tweet under the “white-tears woman” video attests. Note that this relates to other recent research: that showing how young men and women are now worlds apart ideologically.
This phenomenon, however, has long been recognized. Just consider the following Orwell line from the dystopian 1940s novel 1984:
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.
Relevant here as well are the results of a study on “left-wing authoritarianism” related by clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. It found that the best indicators that someone will embrace a left-wing authoritarian mindset are:
- Having low verbal intelligence.
- Being female.
- Having a female temperament, whether one is female or male.
- Having at some point taken a woke college course.
Weak Men Beget Warped Women?
Also germane to the preceding point is the very astute comment under the last tweet above. As the respondent wrote:
Men make culture and women reinforce it.
I’m a high function in autistic woman. This traitorous female behaviour has always p***** me off. But it’s what they are programmed to do.
Don’t complain about the women. Take over their programming.
Returning to Widburg, she sang a similar tune. Saying she liked a theory promulgated by author and philosopher Naomi Wolf, she posted the tweets below.
Now, the “sexually frustrated” framing should perhaps be questioned. It just smacks too much of the Freudian obsession with attributing all problems to carnal causes. The warning about weak men, however, is spot on, as Widburg herself notes.
“Women go crazy when they don’t have the ballast of strong, sane, manly men to anchor them,” she concludes. “And the left, of course, has assiduously worked to destroy American men.”
Quite true. Of course, the problem is multifaceted, with misdirected maternal instincts and women being seduced into psyche-destroying sin also being factors. But it is a reality that married women and single ones (i.e., the “un-anchored”) vote very differently. The former lean Republican while unmarried women vote Democrat by a margin of up to 72 percent.
This said, single women generally follow men, too. Those men just happen to have names such as Walz, Newsom, Schumer, Mamdani, Pritzker — and, ever and always today, Big Brother.
This article was originally published at The New American.
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