That was an interesting post by Garance Franke-Ruta you linked to earlier, Kathryn. She writes that women are more “behaviorally conservative” than men on sex, drugs, and crime–which is sort of interesting terminology for her to use: are criminals “liberal” with regard to crime?–but are more tolerant of others. I’d be interested in seeing the underlying data (which she says will be coming out soon). I wouldn’t be surprised if women turned out to be more supportive of same-sex marriage than men. But I’ve never seen large gender-based differences in surveys of public opinion on abortion; I wouldn’t be surprised if women were more supportive of restrictions on pornography than men; and even some of the findings that Franke-Ruta cites undercut her conclusion about tolerance. (E.g., women are “less likely than men to condone sex before marriage” and think there’s too much sex on tv–these aren’t just findings about the respondents’ own behavior.)