>>725436540
>Additionally, there were moralfags in basically every period of human history, including very male dominated ones. This recent surge in puritanism doesn't seem monocausal.
>https://expression.fire.org/p/male-students-show-more-tolerance
>The data, taken from FIRE’s annual College Free Speech Rankings, reveals that overall tolerance for opposing views is low among both male and female students — but the males consistently display far more tolerance than females, regardless of their politics.
>Liberal and conservative men are more or less equally tolerant, as are liberal and conservative women. It’s being a man, liberal or conservative, that makes the difference.
>But regardless of party or ideology, men are so much more tolerant than women that the gender tolerance gap dominates the ideology difference.

On a tangentially related note: as far as sexuality and arousal goes, woman are more turned off by things that disgust them than things that they're afraid of (Fleischman et al.). Don't feel like making a thesis out of it, so please forgive the lack of structure: the stance that "[thing] is icky to me" is going to spur women to act more than virtually any other feeling/emotion. It's not that women are more open-minded, it's that if they like it, it's okay and if they don't like it needs to disappear.