Depends on who ya sample, haha. Obedience has a lot of factors, and yes, the Trump voters share a lot of those traits, like authortarian thinking and black and white morality; but also not in some regards (agreeableness, for instance, is likely to confirm but that can easily define neolibs too).

Social intelligence, though, less likely as well as self-monitoring and a few other things that I’ll need to check my notes on that I don’t remember off hand. It’s pretty intuitive, you don’t shock people if you have a traits that make you question your actions and would ultimately regret it.

Third fun fact for you, obedience research came out of WW2, and Milgrim in particular was trying to understand why people would follow Nazi orders. Weird how history repeats itself, huh?

Fun fact, there’s limited replication studies because it was unethical and caused participants a lot of distress. Some IRBs will permit a replication up to a much less severe supposed voltage (150 instead of 450) and the actor pretending to be shocked doesn’t have a full on breakdown into collapse (read the actor transcript, around 330 iirc, they bang on the wall begging to have the experiment stop).

Other fun fact, obedience isn’t universal. The least obedient group as far as I remember were female Australians at only 16% participation rate. There is a much higher rate for folks living in authoritarian states, though.

As someone who was in a supportive relationship with a transgender person for 3 years and who personally struggles associating with my own gender (masculinity was never my thing lol), I never really got into the stating my gender pronouns.

I get why it’s done for the times it matters and can do so in a sensitive space, but I get the sense it’s usually done as public compliance (like a cis neolib as an email sig), which can lead to shallow support or worse, resentment. What we ultimately need is more genuine contact with people different from ourselves because that helps reduce “othering” a group.

Oh, but I do tend to default to “they” out of old internet habits. Always disliked the assumption all gamers are men.

See also:

• Men who think the barista likes them because they read their name from a cup.
• Men who think they don’t need to tip their waitress and instead leave their number instead.
• Men who expect a happy ending when getting a massage and again, don’t leave a tip when they’re sent away without one.