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title: "Seven in ten young island women say misogyny is very widespread"
url: https://www.nsfw.info/young-women-misogyny-body-image-island-survey/
published: 2026-10-15T11:00:54+00:00
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summary: "A survey of 2,500+ residents across Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man finds 71% of women aged 16-29 consider misogyny very widespread."
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# Seven in ten young island women say misogyny is very widespread

**In brief:** A survey of more than 2,500 residents across Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man has found that seven in ten young women believe misogyny is very widespread. The Island Global Research study also found that more than half of women aged 16 to 29 were unhappy with their own weight and body image, and that concerns about how women are portrayed online were running high across all age groups.

## What the survey found

The Island Global Research study, which gathered responses from 2,532 participants across Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, including more than 700 from each island, paints a striking picture of how young women in the islands see the world around them. The survey ran online from 17 April to 21 May and was open to residents aged 16 and over, with results adjusted to better reflect island populations.

Among women aged 16 to 29, 71% considered misogyny, defined as hatred or discrimination against women, to be very widespread. A further 79% of women in that age group said they were very concerned about how attitudes towards women were represented in the media and online. Almost three-quarters were very concerned about the portrayal of female body image, and 52% said they were not very happy, or not at all happy, with their own weight and body image.

Lilyanne Guille, the project’s manager and lead researcher, said the findings reinforced two well-established issues. “The survey also reinforces the perceived prevalence of two well-established issues historically affecting women, misogyny in society, and issues around representation of the female body image in the media,” she said. “The findings indicate that people feel there is still progress to be made on both accounts, while the relatively high levels of concern amongst young females suggests just how strongly the next generation feel there is a need for continued and meaningful change.”

## Social media, filters and unrealistic expectations

One theme running through the findings is the role of social media and digital manipulation in shaping how young people perceive themselves and others. Ms Guille highlighted the difficulty of distinguishing reality from digitally altered appearances: “Regarding social media and the use of filters and AI, I think it is difficult for young people and children to know if a person really looks the way they portray themselves online, leading to unrealistic expectations.”

It is a concern that will resonate with parents across Jersey. The gap between the curated perfection of an Instagram feed and the reality of an ordinary Tuesday morning is wide enough to drive a bus through, and the survey suggests younger women are acutely aware of it, even if that awareness does not always protect them from its effects.

The study also found that almost half of women aged 30 to 59 would consider weight-loss medicines in future, while 14% of all respondents reported having already tried them.

## What men think

The survey did not confine itself to women’s views. Among male respondents, 23% held views consistent with the idea that feminism intentionally disadvantages men, and 31% believed the large majority of heterosexual women only wanted to date the most physically attractive fifth of men. However, the researchers found that fewer than 3% of men met their threshold of holding three or more attitudes associated with what the study terms “toxic masculinity,” suggesting that while certain sceptical views about feminism are not uncommon, the more extreme end of the spectrum remains a small minority.

The report acknowledges a methodological caveat worth noting: because participation was voluntary, the people who chose to take part may not be perfectly representative, even after the results were adjusted to better reflect island populations.

## The NSFW Perspective

Surveys like this one are useful, and Island Global Research deserves credit for gathering data across three jurisdictions rather than relying on anecdote. That said, readers are entitled to approach the findings with a degree of healthy scepticism. “Perceived prevalence” is not the same as measured prevalence, and a self-selecting online survey, however carefully weighted, will tend to attract people who already feel strongly about the subject matter.

None of that makes the underlying concerns about social media, body image and digital manipulation any less real or any less worth discussing. The finding that barely 3% of men hold a cluster of extreme attitudes is, in its quiet way, rather more reassuring than the headline figures suggest. Jersey is not, on this evidence, a hotbed of anything particularly alarming. It is, however, a community of young women who are spending a great deal of time online and feeling the worse for it, which is a conversation worth having regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum.

*Source: [Bailiwick Express](https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news/seven-in-ten-young-women-see-misogyny-as-widespread)*