Single Women Are the Odd Men Out, Politically

[Kamaji]

Single Women Are the Odd Men Out, Politically

Michael Barone
Aug 18, 2023

America's political parties are the oldest and third-oldest in the world, and they have competed for votes among a population that has been diverse since colonial times. If you have any doubts about that, consult David Hackett Fischer's 1989 classic "Albion's Seed" on how settlers from different parts of the British Isles brought distinctive "folkways" to the different seaboard colonies and the Appalachian backwoods.

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Regional differences have long been obvious: Differences between North and South produced the Civil War. But in recent elections, the Midwest has voted more like the South than like the Northeast or the West.

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By the 1990s, evangelical Protestants emerged as a heavily Republican group, and in the 2010s, white college graduates (especially those with post-graduate degrees) as a heavily Democratic group.

And then there is the gender gap, the difference between male and female voters, which became statistically significant in 1980. In the years since, and despite the quip attributed to Henry Kissinger that "there's too much fraternizing with the enemy," it has grown wider.

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Married women, however, also voted Republican by a landslide 56% to 42% margin. So, why was the election so close? Because unmarried women favored Democrats 68% to 31%.

Note that married men and married women both made up 30% of the electorate. But there are a lot more unmarried women voters, 23% of the electorate, than unmarried men, 16%.

That reflects not only longer female lifespans but also female dominance in higher education, with women making up 60% of college and university students these days, and the trend toward later first marriages.

The upshot is that about one-third of Democratic voters are single women, which helps explain, as the Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll points out, the 2012 Obama "Life of Julia" cartoons, which showed government helping unattached women through life.

In general, women are more risk-averse than men, and thus more supportive of welfare state measures and more reluctant to support military action. They are also, as we have seen on female-dominated campuses, more willing to suppress speech that is seen as irritating or hurtful. "Highly educated women," as Australian educator Lorenzo Warby writes, "are proving all too willing to trash other people's freedoms to protect their emotions."

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Source:  https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2023/08/18/single-women-are-the-odd-men-out-politically-n2627188

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

There is a horde of single, unmarried cat ladies to be who are just completely irrational and hysterical without a man in their life. More now than ever.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

There is a horde of single, unmarried cat ladies to be who are just completely irrational and hysterical without a man in their life. More now than ever.

Guys are better off not being in the lives of those particular women.

There is a particular class of single women - always college educated and especially with an advanced degree -  who have created a template for a marriageable man that is virtually non-existent, and in many cases self-contradictory.

They want a guy who will 1) play a traditional role socially - initiating and paying for dates, opening doors, being physically protective, wealthy, and preferably athletic and educated, but also 2) be liberal/leftist politically, share traditionally female interests, and accept her continued involvement in single social life with friends.

There's really only one thing men get out of that kind of relationship, and it is something they generally can get elsewhere without all that other baggage.

So, those particular women complain that there are no "good men" out there, while failing to consider they have basically defined "good men" out of existence.

[goatprairie]

My own view is that white, liberal women (single or married) are the biggest threat to the continued existence of the U.S.A. as the greatest country in the world.
In overwhelming numbers they support every nutty leftist, anti-American initiative that comes down the pike.

[Wingnut]

Liberal womon's are nonbreeding lesbians or transfreaks chopping off their breasts.  Not a long term plan for their future.

[jmyrlefuller]

No comment.

[Free Vulcan]

No comment.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I know, I know.

[Smokin Joe]

Liberalism is sort of a mass formation psychosis, mob insanity.

Now, it is allegedly a free country, and if they want to be batsh*t crazy, well, I reckon they have that option.

But I prefer a woman with some common sense, and that usually means a rural upbringing or at least from a blue collar family. That also, incidentally, usually means she will be conservative.

Men have (as long as I can recall) been somewhat eager to please their potential mates, to give them what they want. it is just part of the mating dance.  Unfortunately, nowadays some poor guy could go nuts trying to figure out what that is that women want, because so many younger women don't have a clue themselves.

[Sighlass]

No comment.

Hang in there buddy. We do root for ya.

[Right_in_Virginia]

 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Liberal womon's are nonbreeding lesbians or transfreaks chopping off their breasts.

 

[Kamaji]

"Highly educated women," as Australian educator Lorenzo Warby writes, "are proving all too willing to trash other people's freedoms to protect their emotions."

That is a rather disturbing fact, if true.