The sexes don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to wokeness, with women being considerably more sympathetic than men to woke beliefs and practices. This isn’t just anecdotal; it’s borne out by the data, as shown in the graph below. The differences are surprisingly large, and raise intriguing questions about why more women than men are drawn to these ideas.
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121 sats \ 5 replies \ @denlillaapan 20h
I mean, yehs. No shit.
Maybe in time I'll have a thing or two to say about that. How much of this, would you think, is just the standard result in psychology that women display much higher levels of agreeableness than men?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 20h
I would say it's 50/50 psychology and culture.
I don't see Indian women supporting wokeism like they support in the west.
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8 sats \ 2 replies \ @SpaceHodler 18h
Men traditionally have to provide, they're brought up to be competitive, tough and self-reliant. Consequently, they tend to develop an internal locus of control.
Women are brought up to spend other people's (typically their husbands') money and come up with creative ways to justify expenditures.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE OP 18h
What do you say about the husbands who live off the wealth of their wives?
I'm sure you'll find quite a few unemployed men these days in comparison to women.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 18h
Sure they exist, it's just that those are not the traditional gender roles, which still shape our upbringing and political views.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater 20h
Most of it I would guess
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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 19h
I reject this conservative framing! Gender is a social construct! What is a man? What is a woman?
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 19h
Are you a woman? 🤔
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14 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 19h
I can't tell you I'm not a biologist
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 19h
Let's be honest 😂
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105 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 20h
it's because all these ideas are packaged neatly inside third wave feminism duh
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @IamSINGLE OP 19h
Can be a reason, I don't disagree completely. But that should not be held as a sole reason.
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @fm 20h
guess we have to read this study
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Riberet 20h
Interesenting...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 20h
Very interesting. Women are generally more empathetic and caring.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 20h
See: The Ethics of Care
https://academic.oup.com/book/2881/chapter-abstract/143492892
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 20h bot
https://xcancel.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1870895353882370376
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