"From Suffrage to Suppression: Women Lead Anti-Speech Views"

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Any opinions? (I had to edit the actual title of the story above to get it to fit the subject line.)

From Suffrage to Suppression: Women Now Lead in Anti-Speech Sentiment

Two recent polls, one that sampled college students and another that sampled Americans in general, highlight a disturbing trend among women’s views on free speech rights.

While there are many women who support robust free speech rights, and many well-known women who have made their career working as advocates and activists for free speech, as a group women are increasingly hostile to freedom of speech.

Just this week, Gallup and the Knight Foundation released their newest poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech, and college women did not answer well on questions of protecting free speech. When asked how important it is to protect citizens’ rights to free speech, a very slim majority of women (51%) responded that it was “extremely important” compared to 62% of men.

https://www.nas.org/articles/from_suffr ... omen_towar

Trolling the Women's Discussion now, I see.

Is there some point to this post, or are you just here to wag your finger at women?

Your habit of dropping controversial news stories, and then running away without further comment, doesn't speak well of your intentions.

These were college students, so the sample wasn't randomly drawn.

Women are by far the major targets of hate speech targeted at them as women online and men show no sign of improving as yet:

http://time.com/3305466/male-female-harassment-online/

If memory serves me well (still), the suffragettes certainly encountered hateful attitudes, though there was no internet then where anonymous attacks were the daily occurrence. Society is very different, and these differences arise from many changes, not just feminist progress for women.

Right wing outfits "think tanks" like the Cato Institute (quoted in that biased article) see their mission as shaping opinion to suit their agenda, and I place the link the OP posted in the same category, given it's narrow focus and targeted sampling.

A far more interesting study would have been to sample men (properly) to see how many equate free speech and hate speech as undifferentiated in kind and effect.

However we won't be seeing that from the Cato Institute or its acolytes any time soon.

See it for what it is - a (poorly) disguised political attempt to smear women and elevate men. Now who would do that, and why? (That's a rhetorical question, no answer necessary). The answer is - the usual suspects!

A member reported the OP post from the perspective that posting this here was intended to bait women members. Perhaps so. Avoid the hook disguised by the bait, in that case. To me it is just tiresome same old same old..