Have you ever figured out why the right is so afraid

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23. It's Complicated

In red states the culture is much more extroverted: hierarchical social structures with the men in protecting roles and the women in nurturing roles. Social conformity expectations are also higher. This is very typical of agrarian societies, and it often expressed itself as abuse of the weak by the strong.whi were supposed to protect their family.

Women are also raised in these societies to put the interests of others over themselves, and even in female society there are hierarchies, with those at the top reinforcing the status quo. Women at the too do have some power, but it is usually borrowed from the power of their mate. Finally in agrarian societies the likelihood of women dying in labor was high, especially among poorer women, which meant that fewer women could reach an age where they could gain political power.

Better nutrition, improved birth control (Especially the pill) and access to abortion changed all that. Women now outlive men. More women are choosing not to have children or are waiting later in their lives. This means women are now in far more control of their lives than they have ever been.

Being a protector in a society confers power as well as the perquisites of that power. For men, as women move out from the supposed protection that being male strength and size confer, this is seen as an erosion not only of their own power but a breakdown of the status quo. Uppity women are seen as threats.

This is why the right is going after not only abortion but all forms of birth control, and to a certain extent social health care. These are all intended to reduce female political power, to reestablish agrarian social patterns, and to make women far more dependent upon men. For both men and women, independent power can also be frightening, and they would rather have the surety of known social patterns than the responsibility inherent in being independent.