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In reply to the discussion: Why don't more men identify as liberal? [View all]opiate69
(10,129 posts)1. One of the main factors, imo
Is the fact that the conservative shit faces have pretty much successfully turned "liberal" into an epithet. That, and the fact that the have painted a caricature of the typical "librul" being either a smelly, dreadlocked college student who puts spikes in trees to save the spotted owl or an effeminate, tastefully bearded, Volvo-driving former hippie suburbanite.
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Yeah, I've noticed that DU doesn't always gel real well with the actual, objective outside Universe.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#9
Honestly, in my experience political divisions break more on geographic and religious lines
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#6
I hear you. And it's a question which has been broached, in various forms, in here before I think.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2014
#12
I suppose talking about the 80% of men who voted for Romney was accidental?
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#21
To accept an ideology but refuse the name implies some sort of associational shame...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#23
Unfortunately, I think "emotional remoteness, physical violence and anti-intellectualism" is
nomorenomore08
Mar 2014
#43