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[–]sisterinsomnia 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I once read that libertarians have many more men than women in it, probably because of the basic tenets of the ideology. That ideology thinks they are the biggest predators in the jungle so having the jungle be lawless works to their advantage. Most women viscerally know that there are bigger predators than they in the jungle.

But nobody stays in that top predator rank forever. Old libertarian men, too, will need caregivers and diaper changers, for instance. That's why I think some aspects of libertarianism are particularly appealing to middle and upper class teen boys who don't yet understand how protected and cosseted their lives might have been (and think they did it all on their own) and so can't yet understand what interdependencies mean.