> There's a very small skew towards males preferring it be illegal

Women favor legality by +28 percentage points

Men favor legality by +17 percentage points

That's...not a particularly small gender skew.

That's not how to read these numbers. Your way of counting doubles the actual gender gap.

63 percent of women say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

58 percent of men say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

That's an ~5 percentage point gender gap, not a 10 percentage point gap.

It's a 11 percentage point margin shift, and that is the correct way to view it. While neutral is a small position on this issue because it has high salience and is polarizing, neutral is a valid choice (which is also why the difference in “should be legal” is not identical to the difference in “should be illegal”.)

Ah, that's a fair approach.

I was thinking of it this way: Hallucinaut assumed that armitron was male, because a female would never make that argument. However, 46% of people who believe that abortion should be illegal in almost all cases are female, which makes Hallucinaut's assumption very bad.

Your approach is valid in other contexts, but I don't think it's the most relevant to the question I was addressing.