The line of the day comes from Kay Hymowitz’s perceptive, comprehensive, and sure to be controversial new essay in City Journal on the “New Girl Order”: “There’s much to admire in the New Girl Order – and not just the previously hidden cleavage.” In the piece, Hymowitz traces the globalization of the Single Young Female lifestyle which, she argues, “reflects a series of stunning demographic and economic shifts that are pointing much of the world – with important exceptions, including Africa and most of the Middle East – toward a New Girl Order. It’s a man’s world, James Brown always reminded us. But if these trends continue, not so much.” One area I’d like to see Hymowitz explore in the future is the political implications of the New Girl Order. At the moment, the women Hymowitz describes in her piece are young, and so we may assume they do not vote in great numbers. What happens to our politics when they begin to do so? One more thought on Hymowitz’s essay. The stunning sociocultural transformation she describes –
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