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Does “The Rise of Women” Necessarily Mean “The Decline of Men?”

That could be a bit dangerous as a binary discussion.

Ted Bauer
4 min readNov 15, 2022

Saturday I was lolling around in a Target in Texas, and while my wife was looking at lampshades, I read this Umair article about how the GOP pissed off women. Good, logical point — the GOP gutted abortion rights in some areas, and we have this:

Tom Bonier, a Democratic strategist and the chief executive of TargetSmart, a data and polling firm, said that even as far back as September, women had been registering to vote in significantly higher numbers than usual in states where abortion was on the ballot. ‘Democrats seem to have outperformed by the widest margins in the states where we were seeing the biggest gender gaps in registration since [Roe vs Wade was overturned],’ he said.

Women…preferred Fetterman over Oz by 53 per cent to 45 per cent, according to the AP’s survey of registered voters, while college-educated women

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

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I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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