https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/10/men-anti-trump-activist-groups
How do we get more men to join the anti-Trump resistance?
If I see two other men’s faces at one of my group’s events, it feels like we’ve had a pretty good masculine turnout. Bigger events like the No Kings rallies feature more men, but nearly everywhere we go under Trump 2.0, there is a notable paucity of men. “When we look at the demographics of Resistance 2.0 there is overwhelming consistency,” writes Dana R Fisher, who studies civic engagement at American University. “Participants are predominantly white, highly-educated, female, and middle-aged.”
And it is a vicious cycle: the more women and non-binary people do the overwhelming majority of resistance work, the more men take in the wrong-headed message that this work is not for them. The truth is, the arrival of any new man in these spaces is cause for celebration. My co-leaders and I have a special emoji that we reserve for a new man joining our group.