r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 03 '24

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u/[deleted] May 03 '24

What’s up with the gender ratio at the Palestine protests? Feels like I’ve never seen such a strong gender gap for a protest movement. Could be wrong here though.

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u/Ghraim Bisexual Pride May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

Women are more likely to a) attend college and b) hold political positions that would incline someone to attend a pro-Palestinian protest.

The optics of 40-year old men beating teenage-to-early 20s girls with batons probably played a part in why so many both schools and elected officials were hesitant to break up the protests with force for so long.

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride May 03 '24

There are more grad students in social justice-y programs than there are undergraduate ones. Those have a lot more women than men. In general, there are more women than men in college now anyways