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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022

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So why do young women hate conservative men?

Young women don't hate conservative men. Liberal young women hate conservative men (and conservative women), but conservative young women like conservative men. The majority of young women are liberal, as are the majority of young men. Conservative young men outnumber conservative young women, but not by very much. In 2020, 47% of people under 30 who voted for Trump were women.1 To the extent that this dating app is suffering from an imbalance of male and female users, it's probably for the same reasons that all dating apps suffer from that problem.

1 I calculated this number using exit polls. For men, there were 7,457 total respondents of whom 16% were under 30 and 41% of those voted Trump, for a total of 489. For women, there were 8,096 total respondents of whom 17% were under 30 and 32% of those voted Trump, for a total of 440. 440 / (489 + 440) = 47%.

Trump voters skewed and skew pretty old. What do these numbers under, say, 30 or 35 look like?

Either I’m misreading you or you’re misreading me. The numbers I shared are for people under 30.

Sheesh, I hadn't seen that addendum at all. Those numbers do skew pretty heavily - slightly less than one-third of younger Trump voters would be female. That's a pretty big difference, even if I do question the importance of these things in dating anyway.

No, like I said it’s 47% of younger Trump voters that are female.

I do wonder if conservative women tend to date as many different people before settling down as conservative men do (or want to). I could buy a narrative that conservative women are more likely to settle down with the first decent guy they date.

It seems like secular conservative women- which is what we’re talking about here, religious conservative women go on denomination-specific dating sites or meet a guy at church- are willing to accept that their future husband probably hooked up a bit, but expect it to not be with them. If they think dating apps are for hooking up, then they won’t join.

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