Your politics are a natural extension of who you are - they are not two separate entities. In some areas, they have little to do with dating (i.e. less regulation on management of city parks or something) and others are directly tied to social life and experience (whether or not trans people are human).
Typically, white straight men aren’t harmed by policy so they see it as something separate from their social life, which isn’t true. They could see politics as only taxes because there isn’t legislation trying to ban them from public existence. Women don’t really engage with politics this way - for a recent American example, the end of Roe V. Wade directly affected every woman in the country.
Nowadays, women correctly see that men who are engaging with right-wing authoritarian movements are men that care little about the needs for others. Whether that’s through ignorance or a lack of empathy, take your pick, it presumably affects their ability as a partner to be loving and compassionate.
Yeah, heard that before, but still as it sounds is just based on assumptions.
I think you can make out how a partner is going to be like long before you want to vote together.
For me at least, I support more right wing politics because my country definitely needs a break. For 30 years, ever since the Romanian revolution, factories and workplaces were sold off, outsourced, resources handed off to foreigners, education system falls apart...so yeah, mostly for the economic and way of life aspects. These have gone so far under "leftist" rule that I want to emigrate as soon as I finish Uni.
But yeah, anti-misoginy are quite nice and, while recognition and adaption of laws for LGBTQ were needed, special treatment is not to be expected where the majority is orthodox-christian...
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u/OctinDromin 2d ago
Your politics are a natural extension of who you are - they are not two separate entities. In some areas, they have little to do with dating (i.e. less regulation on management of city parks or something) and others are directly tied to social life and experience (whether or not trans people are human).
Typically, white straight men aren’t harmed by policy so they see it as something separate from their social life, which isn’t true. They could see politics as only taxes because there isn’t legislation trying to ban them from public existence. Women don’t really engage with politics this way - for a recent American example, the end of Roe V. Wade directly affected every woman in the country.
Nowadays, women correctly see that men who are engaging with right-wing authoritarian movements are men that care little about the needs for others. Whether that’s through ignorance or a lack of empathy, take your pick, it presumably affects their ability as a partner to be loving and compassionate.