Various assessments of Charlie Kirk’s legacy have focused, with good reason, on his outreach to young men. In the powerful words of Erika Kirk’s eulogy, “he wanted to save the lost boys of the West” — lost boys like the very one who murdered him. At Unherd, Emily Jashinsky wonders whether Erika can now carry that torch in a mission to save the West’s lost girls. Much-discussed polling data shows a growing political gender gap, as young men grow friendlier to the right while young women drift still more unreachably leftward. The popular wisdom is that pundits like Kirk have flattered the men while indifferently dismissing the women. Along with “racism” and “homophobia,” “sexism” has been thrown into the junk drawer of leftist media reactions to his murder. Among other quotes, Kirk’s wish that Taylor Swift will submit to Travis Kelce sent intrepid feminist journos everywhere to their fainting couches.
In truth, Kirk was not indifferent to the lost girls of the West. Quite the contrary.
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