Gender politics and liberalism

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

So, something very interesting I noticed when I went on Facebook today -- several teenage girls who had changed their profile pictures to equal signs regarding the gay marriage decision while several teenage guys created parody equal signs and statuses about how absurd the act was. And I mean, I know these people -- generally speaking they support they same things and are rather liberal. Whereas the girls I know often do what they do under the terms of social justice, the guys support ideas under the claim of personal freedom, but are often quick to attack ideas that particularly leftist feminists throw out.

Is this a trend that could possibly fracture liberalism as a group in the future? I often find myself wondering what is going to happen when we find ourselves at odds with each other when it comes to certain ideas.

Am I just crazy in thinking about this altogether?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

I think you’re looking too closely into it. Men tend not to wear their hearts on their sleeves which is neither a good nor bad thing. On a thing like Facebook they are less likely to do the whole ‘share this link if you want to beat cancer’ stuff that a lot of my female friends tend to do.

This is what I originally thought too, until I noticed the guys went rather out of their way to criticize the practice.

There's a friend of mine who is very liberal but often finds himself at odds with feminism, particularly if it requires PC-ness. This is something he sent me that he mocked a lot over the past week:

http://i.imgur.com/gWe2umL.jpg

Maybe I'm just observing a subset of the population that is particularly grounded in the internet, and therefore a bit less sensitive towards social interactions than a lot of others.