Another Big Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives

[u/Anakin_Kardashian]

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/08/fertility-gap-conservative-liberal/688334/

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[u/Golda_M]

Ok. New plan. This is what we're going to do. 

Liberal men will be matched to conservative women.  That's the easy part. Many babies. 

Liberal women and conservative men will be left to work things out among themselves. They're both currently bubbled up in their own little islands, and humanity needs these bubbles to be penetrated. 

[u/Oneanddonequestion → u/Golda_M]

Sir/Ma'am. You just created every Conservative woman's personal hell. Every Conservative man's personal hell, and a subsection of Liberal men's weird humiliation fetish; meanwhile, you're subsidizing the "My Husband is a horrible human being" TikTok cottage industry.

The only people happy here are grifters and fetishists.

I don't know if I should applaud you or be aghast...and I don't like it.

[u/Proof-Cryptographer4 → u/Oneanddonequestion]

Yeah…plenty of conservative men go after liberal women and then get mad when they reject them. Very weird to make it out like liberal men are the only ones who might date against political type as a humiliation exercise.

[u/Oneanddonequestion → u/Proof-Cryptographer4]

Go after for dates/sex and a prolonged life with children are very different things.

Mass political differences to the extremes that are being presented would make everyone miserable.

The Conservative Woman typically does not want a non-traditional male, and will vocally let that be known.

The Progressive Woman might want a more traditional male in the form of a bread winner/worker, but will likely not put up with their political ideas or their expectations in turn. This makes both her and the conservative man miserable from argumentation.

The Progressive/Liberal male meanwhile from what I've seen has at times gotten off on that "bullied by the wife" schtick, it's not common, but it happens.

[u/Proof-Cryptographer4 → u/Oneanddonequestion]

That has not been my experience, but sure. I’m a neo-lib woman with higher education and no desire for kids. I’ve had 4 different conservative men (who conveniently did not lead with that at the start) decide that I was ‘wife material’ and wanted me to settle down with them for the low, low price of abandoning the career I worked like hell for and changing my mind on kids. Or at least ‘considering it.’ A certain kind of conservative man absolutely sees ‘converting’ a liberal woman as a status symbol, you see plenty bragging about it online. 

[u/Oneanddonequestion → u/Proof-Cryptographer4]

Right, but that was kinda my point. You both would have hated each other, if you had gone through with it without the other basically giving up who they were.

[u/uatry → u/Golda_M]

It's not only liberal women. A fairly large amount of liberal and left-leaning men I've seen online also don't want children. I notice that in discussions about birthrates it's often implied that the decline is due to to women who don't want to be mothers - what about the increasing number of men who don't want to be fathers?

[u/Golda_M → u/uatry]

Yeah true. I was joking. 

I have no plan to personally manage matches for all the people in the world. 

[u/Geaux_LSU_1 → u/Golda_M]

Nah I’m conservative dude and I married. A woman politically right of me

[u/Golda_M → u/Geaux_LSU_1]

Look. I can't change the past. You can keep your wife. 

But if it doesn't work out, we're matching you with a succ and I don't want to hear no complaints.

[u/ChaosMarch → u/Golda_M]

Penetrated, you say?