#the right

[mrjinx87]

#Twitter #tweet #tweets #X #politics #conservative #conservatives #liberal #liberals #leftist #leftists #the left #the right #YouTube #YouTuber #YouTubers

[victusinveritas]

#the right #right wing extremism #fascists can't cook #cooking #bland trad wives with their bleached chickens

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Rob Henderson

Published: Apr 25, 2024

Perhaps counterintuitively, gender equality is leading to greater gender-related differences.

In most wealthy nations, women have been steadily closing the gap with men on several fronts. In the United States, women now earn the majority of the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Women now receive more than half of STEM college degrees, and the proportion of women in the tech sector has risen in recent years, to 35 percent in 2023 from 31 percent in 2019. Among Americans younger than 30, women’s earnings rival or even surpass men’s in many metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

As these gaps have narrowed, we might have expected men and women to become more alike in other ways, including their cultural values and politics. Yet we are seeing the reverse.

This is especially true when it comes to political orientation. Recent polls have highlighted increasing polarization along gender lines on various political issues. Since 2014, women younger than 30 have become steadily more left-leaning each year, while young men have remained relatively static in their political views. In 2021, 44 percent of young women in the United States identified as liberal compared with just 25 percent of young men — the biggest gender gap in 24 years of polling.

In the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch recently articulated this stark contrast in a piece titled “A new global gender divide is emerging.” He observes that while older women and men are similar in their political views, young women have veered sharply to the left of young men.

Burn-Murdoch cites the influence of the #MeToo movement, suggesting it empowered young women to address longstanding injustices.

The Washington Post’s editorial board suggested that such polarization is to be expected in the United States, “a large, unwieldy democracy.” The Guardian proposes that digital spaces and social media influencers are luring young people into disparate online platforms that cultivate more extreme political views. No doubt these all play some role.

However, I’d like to propose an idea from my home discipline of academic psychology: the gender-equality paradox. This emerged as one of the most mind-blowing findings that researchers published while I was pursuing my recent doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.

The paradox is straightforward: Societies with higher levels of wealth, political equality, and women in the workforce show larger personal, social, and political differences between men and women. In other words, the wealthier and more egalitarian the country, the larger the gender differences.

The pattern exists not just for political ideology but also for things like academic preferences, physical aggression, self-esteem, frequency of crying, interest in casual sex, and personality traits such as extraversion. In all these categories, the differences have been largest in societies that have gone the furthest in attempting to treat women and men the same.

Of course, there is an overlap for all of these attributes — aggression, for example, is a trait that both women and men can exhibit.

But there’s less overlap — meaning greater differences — in more-equal societies. In China, which scores low on gender parity, the overlap between men and women in personality traits such as extraversion and openness to experience is actually very high, 84 percent. In the Netherlands, which is among the most gender-equal societies, the overlap is just 61 percent.

More recently, a study of 67 countries found that although women generally tend to hold stricter moral views, gender differences in verdicts in hypothetical court scenarios are largest in wealthier and more equal societies. Specifically, women view misconduct more unfavorably than men in most places, but this difference in judgment is larger in richer and more equal countries.

This gender gap has also been found for physical differences in things like height, BMI, obesity, and blood pressure. Across societies, men tend to be taller, heavier, and have higher blood pressure than women. But in rich and relatively equal societies, gender differences are particularly large.

The gender-equality paradox might also help to explain why the gender gap in political orientation has grown among young people. One natural explanation is that young women are outpacing men in higher education, with men now making up just 40 percent of college students. Some evidence suggests that college tends to cultivate more liberal attitudes.

However, even among college students, women are more left-leaning than men. A Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey of 254 colleges and universities found that 55 percent of female students identify as liberal, compared with only 40 percent of male students. Interestingly, at schools ranked below 200 by US News and World Report, 45 percent of women and 33 percent of men identify as liberal. At top 25 schools, though, the difference is more pronounced, with 71 percent of women and 54 percent of men identifying as liberal.

The gender-equality paradox can help to explain why the gender gap is largest at the most selective US colleges, where family income tends to be higher and sociopolitical equality tends to be especially highly prized.

In an interview in The Times of London, the psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams succinctly summarized the paradox: “Treating men and women the same makes them different, and treating them differently makes them the same.”

There are a variety of possible explanations for the gender-equality paradox, but one prevailing view is that as societies become relatively more prosperous and equal, people more fully express their underlying traits and preferences.

Of course, culture matters in explaining gender differences — just not in the way most people think.

In less affluent and less egalitarian societies, gender differences in physical traits are flattened due to scarcity — that is, the absence of food and other resources stunts growth, especially for men, leading to smaller physical disparities. Moreover, gender differences in psychological traits narrow in response to rigid social expectations.

In the most equal nations of the world, it’s not harsh gender socialization by parents and media, strict societal expectations, or institutional forces that widen the differences between men and women. In the absence of dire poverty and strict social expectations, people are in a position to express their intrinsic attributes and preferences.

The freer people are and the more fairly they are treated, the more differences tend to grow rather than shrink. Thus, we shouldn’t be surprised that Gen Z men and women are diverging along political lines to a greater extent than earlier generations did.

Rob Henderson has a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge and is the author of “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”

[ Via: https://archive.today/zzoqm ]

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Abstract

Men's and women's personalities appear to differ in several respects. Social role theories of development assume gender differences result primarily from perceived gender roles, gender socialization and sociostructural power differentials. As a consequence, social role theorists expect gender differences in personality to be smaller in cultures with more gender egalitarianism. Several large cross-cultural studies have generated sufficient data for evaluating these global personality predictions. Empirically, evidence suggests gender differences in most aspects of personality-Big Five traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, subjective well-being, depression and values-are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian gender roles, gender socialization and sociopolitical gender equity. Similar patterns are evident when examining objectively measured attributes such as tested cognitive abilities and physical traits such as height and blood pressure. Social role theory appears inadequate for explaining some of the observed cultural variations in men's and women's personalities. Evolutionary theories regarding ecologically-evoked gender differences are described that may prove more useful in explaining global variation in human personality.

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For reference, "liberal" is used here in the American sense of "left-wing," rather than the sense of classical liberalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion, constitutional government and privacy rights. Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.

Much of what constitutes modern day "leftism," such as Critical Theory, modern "color conscious" conceptions of "antiracism," and gender ideology is extraordinarily illiberal.

#Rob Henderson #gender differences #left wing #right wing #conservative #progressive #the left #the right #gender polarization #political polarization #religion is a mental illness

[typhlonectes]

#race #racism #politics #the right #republicans #christianity #religion #jesus christ #jesus #immigration #USA #prison industrial complex #dissent #philosophy

[wiirocku]

John 1:12 (NLT) - But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God.

#John 1:12 #all who #believed #Him #accepted Him #He gave #the right #to become #children #of God

[frillsandfangs]

I want the one on the right (carnally)

#totk spoilers #totk #tears of the kingdom #I want both of them but #the right #Like goddamn

[demontruth]

'Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world. But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.’ Harrison Butker

I was purposely avoiding the topic of the Kansas Chiefs kickers speech to the graduating class at Benedictine College. It seem to be everywhere, well the more I heard I more pissed I became. Especially anyone of weight defending this morons ideals. Bullshit like oh its his beliefs, or I don't understand what the big deal is. Both of brought to you by Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Maher. So I've decided to break it down for everyone who's completely lost as to why what Harrison Butker said is a fucking problem!!

First let's take his actual words. Mostly the moment the dipshit said BUT. But he would venture to guess... let me stop him right there. Everything he said after this to the women sitting and listening suddenly diminished everything they had worked for in their college careers. It devalued them brought them back to being nothing more the 2nd class citizens. The issue with this is it's not just this morons beliefs! These conservative Christian beliefs are shaved by far too many on the right. These kind of men are reason Roe v Wade was overturned. It's men like these that are actively right now all over our country still trying to make sure abortion is illegal in every state. They also want to go after pretty much any form of contraception especially The Pill make that illegal also. See its not just Harrison Butker beliefs, he's the tip of iceberg! When he stand there like arrogant little prick he is telling women, young women in no uncertain terms that a career is ok but your true place is being some man's wife and popping out his babies is far more important is basically a way of diminishing women as fully human. Because conservative Christian men goal is to take complete control away from women as autonomous human beings. Their no better than the Taliban truthfully! That's why what Harrison Butker said is a fucking problem people! It's not just about one guys dumbass beliefs it about an ideology that's invaded all parts of our society. It's most scary its been spreading in our government for far too long! The right has been poisoned by it. Now it's in our Supreme Court, it's already been in the White House once.

The fundamental problem is people are not paying attention. People are not connecting the dots, Harrison Butker isn't a one off... he's a main issue problem.

#harrison butker #benedictine college #commencement speech #what people aren't getting #the real problem #just the tip of the iceberg #conservative christianity #the right #the far right #us government #us supreme court #us politics #the real cost

[rainbowskittle]

Correct answer is all above haha. I just realized a lot of my new ish fandoms in last four years all have an Ed 😆. Enjoy ! 😄

#polls #poll ask #poll question #fandoms #the right #answer #is #all of above #sorry #eddie brock #venom and eddie #eddie diaz #buck x eddie #edward blackbeard #eddie munson #stranger things #steve x eddie #stede x ed #fandom polls #polls question #q&a

[crashtestjeffy]

#trump #the right #garbage humans

[hjellacott]

My mum grew up in a fascist dictatorship. The other day, she said to me "you know, I think we had more freedoms in a dictatorship" and at first I was shocked, but now I kind of agree. When my country lived a fascist dictatorship, there were a lot of people who truly had to hide: gays, people from other racial background and ethnicities, anybody who wasn't catholic, feminists, republicans, etc. But that created a kind of secret basement where all these wonderful people supported each other and lived in a secret, paralel universe, having their own cafes, their own libraries, places where they could meet in secret, read poetry, read all the censored books, speak about censored topics in freedom, speak their minds completely freely, share knowledge and love and ideas. They were suffering persecution, but they had each other and they'd find places to be free in.

But now, even the people (aka the left) who were supposed to be progressive, defend freedom of speech and liberty, provide a safe place for academic discussion and knowledge, with no censorship and no religious limitations, has been contaminated, and I am not surprised that the far right is gaining power in consequence. When now the left starts to censor, to persecute, to harass, to attack freedom of speech and religion, and to behave in ways similar to the right, even attacking feminism and homosexuality, where the hell do we run to? We try to form feminist or gay organisations, but they get labelled as transphobic and attacked. We try to do it with blogs, also get attacked. Over and over, no matter how hard we try to build a safe place for freedom, it gets attacked, and we're not safe in the right and we're not safe in the left. It's so fucking exhausting. And the whole time our attackers pretend to be victims, exactly like when you denounce a man for sexual abuse and he goes around playing victim.

#the left #the right #fascism #dictatorship #feminism #gender ideology #gender cult #transphobia #transgender #homosexuality #lgb #lesbians #gays #bisexuals

[posttexasstressdisorder]

#the right

[green-and-grey-solarpunk]

Both me and my computer are finally feeling up to posting again, sadly a bit too late to celebrate queen Lizzy’s death. Get your tea ready, this one’s a doozy.

For those of you who might find it weird to celebrate a death, let me make one thing clear: I don’t even wish death on my enemies, I am an advocate for reformative justice and I have faith that people can change. But there’s no fucking reason to be sorry about the queen’s death. She died after a lavishly rich life at nearly 100 years old, it’s natural and normal, and there is no cruelty in not mourning.

The reason I’m celebrating is because she was a bad person. Even before we get to the colonial shit, she vetted over 1000 laws during her reign so that they would serve her interests more. She took extra taxpayer money to fund her own endeavors despite having hundreds of millions to her name. Taxpayer money that should have gone to welfare programs to help lower poverty in her country. Taxpayer money that could’ve gone so that disabled citizens of the UK wouldn’t be dying while waiting for government benefits. Taxpayer money that allegedly went to covering up p*do allegations against her son. She was racist to Meghan, and didn’t even let poc work for her early in her reign. She had disabled relatives that were falsely reported dead and did not get support from the royal family. She and her family are a remnant of the days of monarchy that even most conservatives agree were gross and bad for the people.

And then you get into the even more heinous colonial shit. When young queen Elizabeth was granted her title, she was in Kenya, as a part of endorsing and whitewashing violent colonial structures in Africa. You can’t feel sorry for someone when you can find pictures of the people tortured under colonial powers that she allowed to continue. Even after the traditional British empire dissolved, capitalist neo-colonialism along with puppet leaders continued to destroy African populations.

And I know that to most of my followers, this is preaching to the choir, many leftists already know this much and probably more about her and her reign. But this is also for centrists, liberals, and conservatives that don’t understand the harm she has done. It doesn’t matter that ‘someone died’ or ‘this is British culture’ because it has done so much harm.

You can legit find conservatives saying with conviction that the British Empire “civilized” the world. Who think that the art and architecture of colonized cultures pales in comparison to the mere train stations the British brought, who think that after the UK “left” the colonies the natives destroyed their own countries, who think that spreading their religion is civil even if it means bringing war and torture and destruction.

Which is why I’m putting conservatives in the tags, so more people can hopefully see and understand. Even if most of them won’t change their minds and there are probably very few conservatives on tumblr of all places. I may be naive, but I choose to have faith in conservatives to realize the white supremacy inherent in revering the queen like this.

#conservatism #the queen #queen elizabeth #death #leftism #liberals #the royals #conservatives #republicans #tories #the right #right wing #right wing party #left wing #human rights #decolonisation #decolonialism #colonialization #british #british empire #class #communism #anarchism #solarpunk

[hymnless-space-nugget]

A lot of people PREACH about diversifying your feed and “opening your mind” by following/tuning into POC, LGBT+, or female creators, yet DO NOT diversify their own feed by following/tuning into people with different opinions [i.e., Blaire White (trans woman), Jordan Peterson, Abby Shapiro (Jewish woman), Matt Walsh (father of 4-5 kids), etc].

WHICH, by doing so, you will open your mind further since you get to hear opinions or ideas that you, or anybody similar to you, probably won’t ever come up with. Sticking to what is comfortable, or what you know, is not diversity. Step out of your comfort zone. Practice what you preach and be inclusive of all people, maybe you’ll actually learn something.

I know I did. My eyes are more open than I ever thought they were thanks to tuning into content other than what is created solely by one community.

You’ll never grow as a person, or step closer to finding middle ground with others who think differently than you, if you never take the time to hear them out. Some people desperately want their opinions and “truths” to be heard and accepted, but isn’t that how everyone feels? Listen to people and you will be listened to.

If you keep pushing people away who have differing opinions/views, then you are part of the problem.

We are more alike than different.

It all starts with healthy discussions, focusing on middle ground, sticking to what is real, listening to concerns, finding where you agree, and going from there.

#left ideology #right ideology #diversify your feed #real diversity #difference of opinion #practice what you preach #blocking me only proves my point #come up with logical arguments #the left #the right #conservatives #liberals #people are stupid #middle ground #growth #act like an adult #open your mind #blaire white #jordan peterson #abby shapiro #matt walsh #listen to others #hear their side #step out of your comfort zone #centrist #tired of rad left bs #trans #jewish #belittling does not support your side of the argument #was that a moment for you

[project-zorthania]

wingdalf the disco

#young justice #nightwing #yj spoilers #young justice phantoms #i'm in denial this dork is still alive #HE'S ALIVE I REFUSE TO BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE #DC CAN'T KILL DICK GRAYSON THEY'D BE SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT #i can't believe this man used to prowl around with deadass serious intimidating dark knight of gotham cracking jokes like this who gave him #thE RIGHT

[valeriesolanasapologist]

So, I'm a little farther into Right Wing Woman and this jumped out:

"The reality of the fear". This is an important distinction, and why I think a lot of gender critical women mistakenly think that the conservative Right (at least here in the US) may have their best interests at heart (at least concerning the trans movement and men in women's spaces).

While the Left deny and minimize the threat of male violence, the Right openly acknowledges it.

"Yes, you are right. Men cannot be women, and men who say they are women are still a threat to actual women. We acknowledge this. We hear you."

That sounds promising. But then the next part-

"The Right then manipulates the fear."

The Right nor the Left really have women's safety or well being in mind. They just have different strategies for how they can manipulate us to their side, for their own benefits.

#radical feminst #radical feminism #andrea dworkin #right wing woman #gender critical #the right #the left #liberal feminism #politically homeless #female class consciousness #female solidarity #rambling #thoughts on reading

[raz-b-rose]

btw what do you define as woke. what’s your definittion for that word i’m curious

What is woke, I guess it's many things right now but the biggest ones would be

contradicting opinions (seriously so many of the things the left scream about constantly go against each other)

No tolerance/acceptance: If you don't belive this you're evil, hateful, stupid, brainwashed, bigot, ect ect.

Lack of accountability: it's always someone else's fault for how they act/ the choices they make (or its "trauma"/ mental illness)

A savior complex. And if someone from whatever group it is they're speaking for corrects them, they're brainwashed and wrong.

And finally the ones who don't want to get bullied by the loud crazy ones dissolve into a puddle because they have no backbone to actually form their own opinion.

Overall woke culture is nothing more than an echo chamber (more that radical right) where no one is taught any real facts and just regurgitate whatever the last person they spoke to said. It's emotionally driven force, which is dangerous, and they feel justified in their behavior because they are doing "good" and are "good people".

Stop caring so much about what other people think of you. Form your own opinions, look at all the sides of the complex cube that is life and think for yourself. Logically.

#raz answers #politics #the right #the left #radical woke people #woke culture #wokeness #woke corporations #anti woke