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Peter Kriens's avatar

I am very curious what kind of influence the feminization of society has on the bias. It is clear that politics became a lot more 'feelings' oriented, since Bill Clinton campaigns have much less focused on achievements and significantly more on empathy[1]. Clearly males are as partisan as females but until about the 90's I felt more that we're on one team, our country, with some bickering. It is not until that time that the Manichean model became more popular, where the opponent is not wrong but evil, that the partisanship became so strong. Personally, I think that political correct speech is a great culprit because it prevented any arguments that could have relieved the pressure, now it builds up. It is amazingly common that women under 40 try to angrily shut you up for what were quite normal dinner topics until recently.

The feminization of society was a gigantic revolution in my life time (I am 65) that dramatically altered the western societies. I am more and more flabbergasted how studies and analysis virtually completely ignores that it might have had some effects. The word does not even exist according to my browser!

[1] What our Mother's didn't tell us, Danielle Critenden

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Michael Strong's avatar

All of my Democratic friends claimed that Bush was evil because of drone strikes that killed innocent civilians. Then Obama continued the drone strikes that killed innocent civilians and none of them complained. Then later Trump was evil because of separating immigrant families - which had also taken place under Obama. One of the reasons I respect Glenn Greenwald is that he was one of the few writers who was as critical of Democrats as he had been of Republicans for the same policies.

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