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@darwinwoodka @undefined_variable the gender gap under discussion is still there in each party
@3dogcouch @darwinwoodka @undefined_variable
*Everyone on Mastodon knows what I'm about to say before I say it, but imma say it anyway.* 
Slice by race.
"Dem vs GOP" is a fancy way of saying "Under 65% of these people are white" vs "Over 85% of these people are white."
Whenever you see some article talking about "masculinity," look at the slices by race and observe that more Black men take the supposedly feminist position, than white women. 
* Should we do more to address climate change?
* Do you support women's reproductive rights?
* Should we wear masks during the pandemic?
Etc, etc.
@mekkaokereke @darwinwoodka @undefined_variable the original post does just that
@3dogcouch @darwinwoodka @undefined_variable
Not quite the same as what I'm talking about.
The OP looked at enrollment by race. The later post talked about intent / disinterest.
My point is that Black men have not lost interest in college as more women enrolled.
There's a difference between "Black men have become disinterested in college now that more women are there."(interest) And "The financial destruction brought about by the pandemic, combined with increasing police brutality and murder, means that fewer Black men are alive to attend and able to get into and afford college."(access).
@mekkaokereke Do you have a link to the later post? The closest I could find was this Pew study that only slices by white college-educated voters, and doesn't separate by gender. I would really like to see this broken out by gender, race, and college education as well as by population counts.
@mekkaokereke Thanks! "The Political Causes of the College Enrollment Crisis" also ignores that the total population of Republicans has grown faster than the total population of Democrats because Trumpism has converted independents and apolitical folks. I posit that many of these skeptical Republicans were formerly apolitical.
@mekkaokereke it also ignores how much more towards fascism the GOP has shifted in the past 20 years. The GOP of 1994 is not the GOP of 2024 while I think the Democrats of 1994 are closer to the Democrats of 2024 (there are actually lots of 2024 Dems that would match up nicely with 1994 GOP).