The gender gap is growing between supporters of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters.
And that’s good news for the Democratic incumbent: Biden holds a slight lead over Trump in Wednesday’s 2024 presidential election poll, 50 percent to 44 percent. The same matchup was “too close to call” just a month ago.
More women said they would support Biden over Trump in this latest survey, with 58 percent backing Biden and 36 percent backing Trump. Last month, the Quinnipiac poll found 53 percent of women supported the incumbent Democrat, compared to 41 percent for the Republican challenger.
The numbers were relatively unchanged for men — 53 percent of men said they’d vote for Trump and 42 percent chose Biden in the latest poll, compared to 51 percent for Biden and 41 percent for Trump in December.
Anyone remember that African country, or maybe it was a tribe, where the women, ALL of them, refused sex until peace was made? LOL, that shit was done and over in a week. Can y’all women get that going in America?
Having dated heavily in the last few years, I’m seeing it here. (For context, I’m a liberal man in a conservative area.)
I was on 6 dating sites. Hell, throw some poles in the water if you want to catch fish, right? Many women had “no MAGA” straight in their profile. But women, generally being more polite than men, mostly said “no politics”. “No politics” turned out to mean, no MAGA.
Talking to a girl I later dated, “I’m kind of a redneck.”
“…uh… Exactly how redneck?”
“I fucking loathe Trump if that’s what you’re asking.”
“Oh. WHEW! Sorry, just had to get that out of the way.”
Play an interesting first-date game? Ask about the craziest date they’ve been on. My god. The abusive conservatives I’ve been schooled about. Guys fighting politics on the first date! Calling the woman names, bitching her out, all that. I could go on for ages.
tl;dr Women: Don’t date conservatives. Cut them off.
It was a Greek play by Aristophenes called Lysistrata, from 431 BC.
There’s a Greek play by Aristophanes called Lysistrata that has a plot like that. Spike Lee made the movie Chi-raq based on it.
I am truly shocked Trump is getting that much support. It is disgusting as I am near certain most of these voters would never want to live in places like China or North Korea, yet here they are voting for that oppression. Sure a small percentage of them will benefit greatly, but most will suffer when leadership is as narcissistic and self serving as Trump. Insane.
The numbers were relatively unchanged for men — 53 percent of men said they’d vote for Trump and 42 percent chose Biden in the latest poll, compared to 51 percent for Biden and 41 percent for Trump in December.
This has to be a typo… right?
Edit: From the linked study, the accurate version:
Men 53 - 42 percent support Trump, largely unchanged from December when it was 51 - 41 percent.
There is an interesting trend that Gen Z men are leaning more conservative, while more Gen Z women are becoming liberal :
Something strange is happening between Gen Z men and women. Over the past decade, poll after poll has found that young people are growing more and more divided by gender on a host of political issues. Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.
While the gender gap is an enduring feature of American politics, at no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women. The startling speed of the change suggests something more significant is going on than just new demographic patterns, such as rising rates of education or declining adherence to a religion — the change points to some kind of cataclysmal event. After speaking with more than 20 Gen Zers, my colleagues at the Survey Center on American Life and I found that among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement.
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As women’s political priorities have solidified, young men’s priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them. A survey we conducted last year found that young women expressed statistically significant greater concern for 11 out of 15 different issues, including drug addiction, crime, climate change, and gun violence. There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1
I suspect a whole lot of young women learned that it wasn’t abstract, but their own mothers had suffered assaults and abuse. Used to be moms didn’t talk about it at all with their kids. But during MeToo they talked about it with their daughters but not their sons. I watched it happen in my own house.
It increasingly feels like Gen Z men and women are living on different planets
It’s true what they say, women are from Omicron Persei VII, and men are from Omicron Persei IX.
Not all that surprising IMO, many issues that are considered “Men’s Rights” issues are rarely used as more than just fodder for bitching and moaning, because the second anyone talks solutions, they end up moving towards feminism and dismantling patriarchy.
As for what issues could animate them that aren’t specific to manly stuff, climate change has proven to be important to Gen Z but a lot more as a looming spectre of forthcoming death rather than as a political crisis that needs and inspires action. The zoomer doomers basically see climate change the way their boomer parents see the return of Christ.
many issues that are considered “Men’s Rights” issues are rarely used as more than just fodder for bitching and moaning
I found this very demeaning. Just because bad actors are the loudest doesn’t mean the issues aren’t valid.
because the second anyone talks solutions, they end up moving towards feminism and dismantling patriarchy.
How exactly?
No ot does mean it’s not valid, because said issues are all literally just patriarchy, and yet whenever they’re discussed in the context of men’s rights it’s always in the context of just trying to make the feminists shut up about feminism because “see it’s bad for us too!” before then sitting back as if that helped anything.
Men not being able to express emotion? Patriarchy. Men having to be breadwinners? Patriarchy. Men being typecast for manual labor? Patriarchy. Men not being trusted with children? Patriarchy. Men not being believed when they speak out about DV? Patriarchy. Men being ridiculed when they act as a homemaker spouse or stay at home parent? Patriarchy.
Trying to talk about men’s rights in opposition to feminism is impossible to do in good faith because either you’re intentionally trying to shut down discussion of the actual issue at hand, toxic symptoms of patriarchal oppression, or you’re a fucking moron so incapable of seeing the issues that your participation in the discussion is an active detriment to other participants in the conversation.
Men’s rights kvetchers never discuss solutions, they just try to bring up ways patriarchy is bad for them too without acknowledging it’s patriarchy so they can tell feminists to shut up as if that addresses anything, and then sit down without proposing solutions, because any solutions would involve dismantling patriarchy, and they literally just went to all the trouble of shutting up the feminist trying to do that.
Trying to talk about men’s rights in opposition to feminism is impossible to do in good faith because either you’re intentionally trying to shut down discussion of the actual issue at hand, toxic symptoms of patriarchal oppression, or you’re a fucking moron so incapable of seeing the issues that your participation in the discussion is an active detriment to other participants in the conversation.
Yeah it’s definitely men’s fault they’re incapable of having a nuanced conversation with you…
There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women
I bet they could change that by asking about “ethics in journalism and media,” or some such because fucking GamerGate did some severe psychological damage to a whole generation of middle school boys when they were at a vulnerable place in their development and we’re just now realizing the scope of that
Did you respond to the wrong question? He asked if the numbers posted showing a much larger shift from Biden in the lead to Trump now in the lead for men, preceded by the statement that there was not as much a shift in men as there was in women. Then you go on about Gen Z.
Yes, that’s wrong.
Biden holds a lead among all registered voters 50% to Trump’s 44%, and Trump has held a largely unchanged male-voter lead over Biden that went from 51-41 to 53-42 in favor of trump since last month
Thank you, I read sentence repeatedly trying to figure out how the numbers flip flopping was relatively unchanged and trying to figure out what I was missing.
I find this odd. A study came out last year (iirc) that found that, as Americans get older, a greater percentage of each age cohort becomes more conservative. It was particularly interesting because each generation exhibited the trend at the same rate - just offset by the age differences.
However millennials broke the trend, becoming more liberal as they got older, and Gen Z even more so.
I’d have to look at the details of the two studies to come to any conclusions as to what’s driving the different findings.
For me, a single data point, my GenX ass has become more liberal.
Seemed getting more conservative with age was a perfectly normal thing. You got more experience in life, can see more nuanced views, fight back against change that might have unintended consequences. I get it. Or at least I did get it…
What rates as conservative vs. liberal has changed drastically over the last decade or two. LOL, I call myself wildly liberal, but for a 20-something me, I’d have been a raging conservative in the 90s.
Anyway, power to the youth. I trust you guys, I believe in you, you’re my kid’s future.
Now can you take your happy ass to the polls? Pretty please with sugar on top? Get off your ass and save the world?
Same here - that’s why I was surprised by that result for Gen X.
I don’t usually associate conservatives with having more nuanced views, though. Think about all the pushback on diversity programs and CRT. I think that nuanced thought is largely an effect of education, where you learn more facts as well as how to think through problems.
Gen Xer checking in, and anecdotally: conservatives have always seemed like very, very creepy weirdos. Failed, milquetoastian supervillain wannabes who went to church but were super the devil. I’ve never understood how so many get sucked in with crocodile tears and pearl clutching. 10 year old me in 1986 hated their fake asses and I still do today, with burning, searing intensity. I think it’s the disingenuousness that is so odious to me, especially used in service of a deeply evil agenda.
Same. To the letter.
Media: who?
They’re still consistent, young men are still overall way more liberal/left leaning than the ordinary generational shift, it’s just that young women have departed much further much faster since Dobbs has created a massive call to action that young women are VERY motivated by while young men haven’t had that watershed moment that drives them to really act against the system.
If it was like, “each state gets to set limits on how many times you can have sex or jack off in a month because it kills fetuses”, guys everywhere would be in a rage.
I can’t figure out how women can still support the Republicans after they took their rights away.
Unless you had an enforcement mechanism, those guys would love the fuck out of it and claim that they never masturbate anyway. But come up with a way to prove they are lying and then they’ll be up in arms over such an invasion of privacy.
come up with a way to prove they are lying
Considering which states would be prone to pass anti masturbation laws, that method of proof would probably be based on skin colour.
Porn bans and requiring ID to view porn. I bet that could do it.
I totally agree, but the study I read was pre-Dobbs, I believe. It was a longitudinal study so the data in the study was absolutely pre-Dobbs and went back through the 50s or so. Sorry - it’s been a while and the thing that stuck with me the most was the line graph.
False correlation, generations don’t become more conservative as they get older, they get more conservative as they amass weath.
The trend breaking just shows that the newer generations are getting screwed over
Or the definitions of what it means to be conservative or liberal have changed, and that’s altered the conscious and subconscious calculus for people.
I would also add the ratcheting up of political identity as personal identity, and an intensification of tribalism.
Then again, that’s all tied up in my own confirmation bias.
Was gonna say the same, as I remember reading a study a few years back that came to this conclusion. They found no direct correlation between age and shifting political opinions, but that as people accumulated wealth, they were more likely to become more conservative.
Basically, when people start benefitting from the system, they stop wanting that system to change.
I was not implying otherwise - not intentionally at least. I do think wealth has a lot to do with it. However, there’s also a developing fear of change as people get older (so becoming conservative in the classical sense of the word in terms of not wanting things to change), and if I recall correctly there’s increases in things like religiosity as well. I’m not aware of anyone who looked at the aging effect on things like racism, etc., but I wouldn’t be surprised. My father, who was a Republican, used to say that a conservative was a liberal who’d gotten mugged.
I think the new consensus is that generations don’t trend conservative, but deaths trend liberal. People in need of healthcare tend to vote democratic - but people in need of healthcare also die at higher rates then the general population. Married people tend to live longer, and until gay marriage was legalized, that meant gay people lived shorter lives. Conservatives tend to be more afraid of things, which until they became afraid of COVID vaccines, made them more cautious and live longer. This is just but a handful of things that recently turned around and equalized the death rates.
I’m not sure about that. For one the trend towards conservative manifests itself way before death rates are a significant factor. Plus, none of that explains women who live longer.
No, it’s much simpler. Traditionally older people skew conservative because… well they simply want to conserve the past. It’s just straight up inertia. Nothing complicated about it.
Here’s the thing though: Republicans are not conservative. They do not want status quo. They are regressive. They want to completely reform the system from the ground up in their own vision. They have realized that the status quo is leaving them behind, and the only way for the system to work for them is to take it back by force, with new oppressive policies. Authoritarianism. Discrimination.
Anyway, support for regressive policies are not explained by inertia, for it is an opposite force. Which explains why this is no longer a generational divide. I think other factors are just minor details by comparison. The fact that these regressive policies discriminate against women, for example, is the new divide.
If anything I would speculate that it’s actually because people tend to accrue wealth as they get older and millennials are the first generation that’s really struggling to do that.
Yet again I am ashamed to share a gender with men.
Can we just subjugate all the men already? I mean, that is our evil long game after all… /s
Which one of them is transitioning?
