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> ...falling behind on basically every metric... [emphasis mine]

I'm thinking that some of the exceptions - domestic violence, workplace sexual harassment, feeling safe in public places, access to reproductive health care, etc. - are both very serious, and intense emotional button-pushers. Try asking a few good fathers of younger daughters for their own PoV on that kinda stuff?

Bigger picture - both the press and social media seem intent on casting the whole problem as a one-dimensional battle of the sexes. If a problem this complex can't be cast at least as "you want X, Y, and Z; they want U, V, and W" - then I'd figure that the folks controlling the conversation really want an endless angry fight and dystopian future.

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You just mentioned a bunch of areas on which women have (fortunately) made incredible progress in the past few decades. Some of these achieved mostly by voting left-leaning. So it makes sense to me that women want to keep voting that way as they have seen progress.

To a very mild degrees, yes. If women feel themselves stuck in a society dominated by a one-dimensional, "war of the sexes" worldview, and their voting choices are similarly crap - then their less-bad option will kinda tend to look like "vote left-wing".

But (per Wikipedia) the "womens' vote" in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election was 54:41 for Clinton:Trump. Suggesting that any worldview or analysis that tries to treat women as some sort of monolith is utterly delusional.

Or maybe the pro-war factions on each side could try to reclassify women who voted "the wrong way" as "WINO's"?

EDIT: If this is insufficiently obvious - "to a very mild degree" refers to the voting patterns of women. Vs. all the rhetoric which seems to portray women as a monolith (which is blatantly counter-factual).

> To a very mild degrees, yes.

To a degree that young women are wildly more successful than men. They practically rocketed past them in just a few decades.

Don't pretend this is "mild" success. It detracts from your own argument by making it look like you're not arguing in good faith.

Other exceptions: ability to play sports, video games (from basic shooters to complex strategy 4X) and use GNU/Linux

(Cis girls are >50% of the US population; trans girls are ~1% of the population (generous); 99% of girls on Linux are trans. Js)

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