America's New Female Right

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2024

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In America, a new wave of young women who are championing extreme views on social media, including content that is increasingly shocking and - surprisingly - antifeminist. Journalist Layla Wright travels from her home town in Liverpool to meet influencers at the forefront of a new movement on the political right who use highly inflammatory language

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David Brown

To assume the young are progressive and their elders more conservative is, as Layla Wright discovers, naive. On a trip to the US in this eye-opening documentary, the Liverpool-born journalist finds a growing number of inflammatory teenage female influencers, who appear rock-solid in their anti-feminist views.

For them, women who embark on a career, or even cast their vote, are eroding American values — a standpoint that’s finding a sizeable audience on social media. Wright — who employs her mentor Louis Theroux’s tactic of considered rather than openly combative questioning — immerses herself in their lives to find out why they want to overturn hard-fought-for rights.

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rolenameReporterLayla WrightDirectorAlana McVerryExecutive producerArron FellowsExecutive producerNancy StrangEditorMartin CraswellEditorRobbie PettigrewEditorJon Coutts

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