Feminism, Anti-Racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization

Earlier this month, Compact Magazine published “The Lost Generation,” written by Jacob Savage, a man who spent fifteen years trying to build a career in screenwriting and finally gave up. He claims he was the victim of active discrimination as a white male, and backs it up with facts:

“In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent… White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023… In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color… In 2018, The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the 220 fellows have been white men… Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent)… Today, just one in ten millennial programmers at Sundance is a straight white man…”

Savage goes on to gallop through every other profession in America, citing statistics for each of them. The story stays the same. White males need not apply.

Meanwhile, only two months earlier, in October, Compact Magazine also published “The Great Feminization,” in which the author, Helen Andrews, describes how over the past decades, and especially in just the last ten years, most professions in the United States have become majority female. She writes:

“A much more important tipping point is when law schools became majority female, which occurred in 2016, or when law firm associates became majority female, which occurred in 2023… Today, women are 33 percent of the judges in America and 63 percent of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden… In 1974, only 10 percent of New York Times reporters were female, today, the female share is 55 percent… Medical schools became majority female in 2019. Women became a majority of the college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019. Women became a majority of college instructors in 2023.”

The closest that Savage comes to exploring the implications of institutionalized anti-white, anti-male bias is to ask the obvious question: “Is the media more trusted now than a decade ago? Is Hollywood making better films and television? Is academia more respected? Have these institutions become stronger since they systematically excluded an entire cohort—or did abandoning meritocracy accelerate their decline?” In his article, weighing in at nearly 9,000 words, he mostly limits his focus to comprehensively quantifying how pervasive and extreme anti-white, anti-male discrimination has become in America.