Not the other person, but my guess is that women have a lot more to immediately fear from the right and/or “gain” from liberals so it makes sense for them to stick with the center. Meanwhile men tend to place more value on their ability to (and be expected to) provide for themselves and their current or future families, so they care more about costs of living. Basically women are too busy running away from the psycho trying to kill them, while men have enough room to stop and say “doesn’t my life kinda suck.”
That still doesn’t make sense. Women still have to pay the same costs of living. We’re all in the same boat, trying to survive on the scraps the capitalists offer us.
I don’t have a magic “vagina pass” that makes my wage higher or rent more affordable. If I were running away from a psycho, I’d still have to somehow make ends meet while also dealing with hostile people. That’s where I get confused. Pride is one thing, but when your ability to live in society is hanging from a late-stage capitalist thread, pride is no longer the primary driver - survival itself is. Man, woman, non-binary, we’re all struggling in this same way.
If I were running away from a psycho, I’d still have to somehow make ends meet while also dealing with hostile people.
Yeah, but you’d be a lot less likely to believe the psycho has your best interests in mind. Now to be clear we’re dealing with trends here; plenty of women do in fact believe the psycho has their best interests in mind, and plenty of men don’t like the psycho even if they’re not the primary target, but the threat of being killed or locked up in a basement means you have to be more desperate (or more gullible) to believe the psycho’s words if you’re a woman. Also, for people who aren’t literally in danger of becoming homeless pride would be expected to have more effect, which will disproportionately affect men.
But that ignores the completely other side of how stupid this, in that we know- for a fact- the left is more likely to actually get cost of living down. So why are men believing exactly the opposite?
Not the other person, but my guess is that women have a lot more to immediately fear from the right and/or “gain” from liberals so it makes sense for them to stick with the center. Meanwhile men tend to place more value on their ability to (and be expected to) provide for themselves and their current or future families, so they care more about costs of living. Basically women are too busy running away from the psycho trying to kill them, while men have enough room to stop and say “doesn’t my life kinda suck.”
That still doesn’t make sense. Women still have to pay the same costs of living. We’re all in the same boat, trying to survive on the scraps the capitalists offer us.
I don’t have a magic “vagina pass” that makes my wage higher or rent more affordable. If I were running away from a psycho, I’d still have to somehow make ends meet while also dealing with hostile people. That’s where I get confused. Pride is one thing, but when your ability to live in society is hanging from a late-stage capitalist thread, pride is no longer the primary driver - survival itself is. Man, woman, non-binary, we’re all struggling in this same way.
Yeah, but you’d be a lot less likely to believe the psycho has your best interests in mind. Now to be clear we’re dealing with trends here; plenty of women do in fact believe the psycho has their best interests in mind, and plenty of men don’t like the psycho even if they’re not the primary target, but the threat of being killed or locked up in a basement means you have to be more desperate (or more gullible) to believe the psycho’s words if you’re a woman. Also, for people who aren’t literally in danger of becoming homeless pride would be expected to have more effect, which will disproportionately affect men.
But that ignores the completely other side of how stupid this, in that we know- for a fact- the left is more likely to actually get cost of living down. So why are men believing exactly the opposite?