How Gen Zers looking for love are 'pretending to be awake' to win dates – 'dating right now is like walking on eggshells'

Gen-Zers are coming forward with stories of dating hardships caused by the intense and growing political divide between men and women in their generation.

In one piece for the Free press, Gen-Z journalist Rikki Schlott shares stories of her colleagues trying to break into the dating pool, which is full of highly politicized and highly online candidates.

Schlott spoke to a 25-year-old college student in Washington, D.C., who told her that he was a traditional conservative completely masks his political identity before and during dates with his contemporaries.

“You just have to assume that most girls are progressive and constantly make sure you don't say the wrong thing,” he said.

“On first dates, I'm usually just trying to gauge where they're coming from while glossing over my views.”

Numerous reports lately illustrate the widening political divide between the genders of Gen-Z.

Young women are liberal and moving further to the left every day. While young men have emerged as sharply conservative over the past five years, a pattern that has been developing for at least a decade.

Data shows that women in particular often refuse to date across party lines, creating a dynamic that could ultimately lead to demographic collapse.

The majority of young American women (about 55 percent) say they wouldn't date a man who listens to Joe Rogan's incredibly popular podcast.

On the other side of the equation, 64 percent of young men think identifying as a communist is a red flag.

Saying 'Black Lives Matter' also proved to be a turn-off for a third of young men, while almost two-thirds of young men say supporting 'Black Lives Matter' is a green flag.

American politics is not the only thing that influences the dating lives of young people.

In England, Germany and especially South Korea, men take a sharp turn to the right, while women stay to the left.

In South Korea, in response to what they see as a sexist society that is not conducive to women's development, women have stopped having children.

In what's been called the “4B movement,” women are refusing to marry, date, have children, and have heterosexual sex. The birth rate has fallen to a dismal 0.78 births per woman.

Young women are liberal and moving further to the left every day. Although young men have emerged as sharply conservative over the past five years, it is a pattern that has been developing for at least a decade

In a study by Change Research, 1,033 men and women between the ages of 18 and 34 were asked what behaviors in a partner are considered green or red flags

Schlott writes that modern app dating has anecdotally become a coded exercise for men, and an exhibitionist display of progressivism for women.

Young men, she says, label themselves as “moderate” if they are conservative, and “liberal” if they are moderate.

One such case told her that he pretends 'he's awake' because 'a man' has to have sex.'

The 25-year-old student said, “It's a death wish to say you're a conservative.”

Women, on the other hand, project their politics openly and radically.

“I'm strangely attracted to: comrades,” one woman wrote on a popular dating app.

'My love language is: Marxist political theory.'

'Let's make sure we're on the same page about: Covid is real. Land back. Mask and vax. LGBTQIA2+. Anti-capitalism. BLM. ANTIFA. Universal basic income/health care. Trans rights. Socialism. ACAB. (Palestinian flag emoji),” reads a particularly progressive, but not particularly unique, profile of a young woman in Brooklyn, according to Schlott.

The hope for Gen-Zers would be that as they grow older, they will move toward the political center so that the U.S. birth rate doesn't drop to South Korean levels.