Since North Carolina's anti-LGBT law, HB2, was passed in the name of "protecting women and children," someone finally thought of something novel: Asking women whether they feel any safer under the law.
Public Policy Polling's latest survey found that not only do a plurality of women oppose the bill (46 percent opposed, compared to 33 percent in support), but even more believe HB2 has failed to make them safer—48 percent, compared to just 34 percent who think it is working. In fact, those numbers are worse than among men, who are evenly divided on the matter but overall believe the law is making people safer than the ladies do by eight points: Just 40 percent of men say it isn't working, while 40 percent say it is.
In other words, men are more likely than women to believe HB2 is making women safer. And we all know that what men think is much much more important than what women think, especially when male lawmakers are claiming the moral high ground of "protecting" women.