The Daily Populous Wednesday February 5th, 2025 evening edition
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Gwynthehunter on February 5th, 2025 at 13:18 UTC »

Signs dont do anything. People need to be much fucking angrier about everything happening.

pugs-and-kisses on February 5th, 2025 at 14:04 UTC »

This might be a decent time to remind folks that 44% of American women (almost half) did vote for Trump. So that’s quite a few people with a uterus.

Sjoerd93 on February 5th, 2025 at 14:13 UTC »

One reason why this message is not working is because it makes the implicit assumption that opinions on abortion rights are a gendered thing. If you actually dive into the polls, you find that women are as likely to oppose abortion as men, see this article for an interesting dive into this. While women are more likely to have strong opinions on abortion than men (that goes either way, also with anti-abortion people), they are not more likely to actually support it.

As the linked article points out, the real dividing line on abortion is not gender but religion. Religious people are much more likely to oppose abortion than non-religious people. On average, women are more religious than men, cancelling out all other gender-biases you'd might expect about women being more open to abortion rights.

Note that I'm 100% pro-choice. But this messaging has never worked, and only helps dividing up people into divisions that are not there to begin with.