While the researchers try hard to blame patriarchy, in my life experience, I found that most younger women simply weren’t interested in politics and current events as a whole. Particular issues might catch their interest from time to time, but generally they were into entertainment culture, like (when I was in my 20s), what was going on on “90210.” And shopping. Getting tattoos. Visiting psychics. And of course, finding a man and starting a family.
It isn’t until women are much older, into their 40s, I’d say, that many take a general interest in politics and current events.
And so many seem to form their beliefs on superficial impressions, which they will then zealously research and defend, to the point of wanting to censor those whom they disagree with.
I see that sort of zeal in this article about Harvard students voting to censure the school paper for following standard journalism when contacting ICE for a statement in a story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3794666/posts
I appreciate your candor. Women are wired for survival. The security and comfort of their families and homes are more important to women than the security of the nation. After a war, the women of both/all parties, with no husbands, mate with the victors when they run out of their own countrymen.
It’s God’s design, and I have to go along that He knows best.