Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Kinsey, Women and the 2004 Election
The new film about sexologist Alfred Kinsey contains an unexpected lesson on the impact of the homosexual marriage issue upon married women voters in 2004. In the movie, Kinsey tells his wife he has taken up with a boyfriend. The "free-thinking" Mrs. Kinsey is not the least bit happy about his news.
The sexual revolution has already left married women deeply fearful of being dumped for a younger woman. (A female friend calls it "every woman's nightmare.") The advent of social acceptance of gay marriage (and thus of homosexual behavior itself) would mean that married women would now have to fear the competition of both other women and other men in a society where anything goes.
Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira states:
Data available from DCorps' post-election survey make it possible to compare white married voters by gender with their counterparts in 2000. This comparison shows Bush's margin among white married men staying about the same across elections and actually shrinking a bit among white unmarried men. But among white married women, his margin increases from 9 to 18 points and, among white unmarried women, he actually achieves a tie, compared to a 15 deficit in 2000.
"Security moms" backed Bush. But the security they were backing might not have been the security of the nation, but rather the security, such as it is, of their marriages.
|posted by Jim on 2:05 PM|
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