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The headline finding: more Republican young men blame women for their problems than Democratic young men. Among Republican young men, it's 26%; for Democratic young men, 6%.

Footnote "similar" finding: young Democratic women blame men for their problems at a rate of 66%. The smallest percentage of Democratic women blaming men for their problems is 47% (age 50-64); the smallest percentage among Republican women is 16% (65 and older).
Young women are unique in their perceptions of gender discrimination in American society. More than two-thirds of young women believe that women face “a lot” of discrimination in American society. Fewer—though still a majority—of young men and older women share this view.  

There is a sharp political divide as well. Democratic women are far more likely than Republican women to believe women face considerable prejudice in the United States. But it is not only in the existence of discrimination that Democratic and Republican women are at odds. Democratic women are far more likely than Republican women to say that men are responsible for many of the problems women have in American society.  

These are perceptions; one argument for the delta in perceptions is that men really are more responsible for women's' problems than vice-versa. The partisan split would remain interesting even if that were true.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit, someone combined the graphs to draw out another point about the partisan split: Republican men/women are pretty even in blaming the opposite sex, but there's a huge Democratic variance.


Leaving aside the question of which perception matches actual reality best, there is a significant advantage to not blaming your problems on anyone else. It is, roughly, the Stoic insight: by focusing your attention on what you actually control, you gain a significant advantage. Blaming other people for your problems, whomever they are, puts the focus on things you can't really affect much; thus, you will tend to end up stewing in your problems rather than addressing them. 

There is the competing Zen insight, which is that focusing on yourself is the halfway point because some parts of yourself aren't really in your control either. "A man who blames his problems on other people is far from home; he who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames neither himself nor other people is almost home." 

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