In the absence of other information, we have to assume that the political inclination of any person is a considered choice, based on objective and reasonable choices. But my prejudices urge me away from this belief. I've expected that women tend to be more progressive in their thinking, I thought, because they have greater frustration with poverty in others, regardless of the race or the social class of the person. Men, for decades, earned the money for the family (and whipped on their employees to greater efforts) and paid the taxes, and—it would seem, at least to fellow affluent men—were reasonably frustrated with low-earning, or even unemployed men. And furious at having to pay taxes.
Many of the celebrity women I have admired seem to be conservatives. Why is this? Ginger Rogers was the first one I noticed; and I believe, so was Debbie Reynolds. Jane Fonda has been a progressive for decades, so has Lily Tomlin, and Susan Sarandon, bless her! But, keeping informal statistics, the celebrity women—obviously, not those themselves running for election, or we'll get confused with all these Bobert's, Taylor-Confused-Greens, and other witless admirers left over from Trump's of glamorous days running about—seem to outnumber the progressives.
What is it about the lives celebrity women lead that seems to encourage conservatism?
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