Posted on 01/03/2015 5:44:11 PM PST by Morgana
DAVIS, Calif. — IT’S been widely observed that in recent elections men have leaned Republican and women Democratic. A key element of that gender gap is often assumed to be a difference in attitudes to women’s reproductive rights.
The perception that men and women have divergent views on abortion has persisted over time. The line popularized by Gloria Steinem that “if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament” proposes that a male-female divide over this social issue is more or less a biological given.
The polling confounds such stereotypes. The General Social Survey, which has been tracking American opinions for decades, includes the question of whether a woman should be allowed to get an abortion if she “wants it for any reason.” In 17 of the 23 years that this question has been asked, men have answered “yes” to a greater extent than women. The average difference was about 1.5 percentage points — a small but consistent gender gap, if not the one people seem to expect.
So what is it about women that makes them less enthusiastic than men about abortion on demand? Again, the survey offers answers. Using a common statistical method, one can determine the effect of different variables on an outcome of interest — in this case, the odds that someone will agree or disagree with the question. This reveals that the difference between men and women is not, in fact, likely because of their sex, but because of other factors that happen to correlate with sex.
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The black women know that if they have any kind of prospect of a future at all (other than welfare) they'll be going it alone, most likely, without a husband, without a stable marriage and family life.
Any kind of positive life-plan --- education, career, advancement --- seems so much harder if you know you'll be raising a child / children on your own. So for them, abortion seems like the only way.
Generations have been destroyed this way. There will an accounting some day. A dreadful accounting.
Of course,"women's rights" would be the justification for that partial ban.
The only other way, AFAIK, would be interracial marriage. If you can make it work that way, more power to ya, but I wouldn’t recommend it personally.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "Women are the mothers," while "Men just f****d something."
Argument, anyone?
That about sums it up.
generalizing,
men’s nature wants to take care of himself and his ow, he just wants others to get out of his way so he can do it.
women’s nature is they want to be taken care of, and take care of others.
men lean more towards politics that match their innate nature, and so do women. more so men lean republican, and women, democrat. the exception is married women lean more republican, for obvious reasons.
the problems are this has caused socialism to grow here big time.
I’ve seen a handful of very successful interracial marriages. God bless and encourage them! But there are
some big challenges that couples and their kids have to be very strong to overcome. The ones that worked (that I saw) shared a central, and indomitable, Christian faith.
There ya go. Hope springs eternal.
Sexual immorality is the problem. Abortion is a symptom. Unmarried motherhood is a symptom. Divorce/custody disputes is a symptom. Multigenerational welfare dependency is a symptom. Child abuse is a symptom.
Does anyone want to address the problem? Show of hands ... anyone? *echo* **echo** ***echo***
I know a number of interracial (black/white) couples, as well as Caucasian/Asian couples and Anglo/Hispanic couples.
The situation just takes determination. In a way, every married couple is a “clash of cultures.” Don’t get me started on my in-laws.
Wow, really? Men want women to have unfettered access to abortion? That's a total SHOCK, I tell ya!
/sarc
(and for those who don't understand the /sarc, try reading the threads about teachers/older women screwing students/teen boys... the same men "high-fiving" those situations are the first to call a woman a slut in "polite" company.)
These days, the “conservative” boy (and late-middle-aged man) wants his free fornication just as much as the liberal boy of Andrea Dworkin’s prime.
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I have encountered quite a few interracial marriages and they seem to be more likely to persist than the monoracial variety. I am not referring to any sort of arrangement that could come under the old category of “shacking up,’ but rather actual marriages proposed and stood up for and consummated. Most occurred because partners were looking for a stability they couldn’t find on their own sides of the divide.
My wife has said for years that women should not have been given the vote.
No argument her. Ever since Roe v. Wade, the so-called “right to abortion” has been the Get Out of Jail Free card for stupid irresponsible horndog guys.
I don’t know about this. I mean how do the conservative men and women who are pro-choice vote, how do the liberal pro-life men and women vote, and at what rate do they vote at all? Because if someone tells me they are pro-life, but all they vote for is for abortion facilitators or don’t vote at all, I kinda think we must have different standards of what ‘prolife’ must mean to each other. Or am I missing something?
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