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.
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:24PM
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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.
Women favor legality by +28 percentage points
Men favor legality by +17 percentage points
That's...not a particularly small gender skew.