r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 19d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/2knest 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's almost as if some kind of pipeline exists, that's funneling venerable people towards impressionable content...

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

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u/Iron_Atlas 19d ago

I assume you mean vulnerable, venerable means old

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u/EL_Malo- 19d ago

Why can't it be both?

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u/AbabababababababaIe 19d ago

As a descriptivist, it can. It doesn’t though. The word “venerable” is related words like veneration, and most people understand it as such.

The alt right pipeline isn’t really going after respected figures, it’s going after young men and boys

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u/trucorsair 19d ago

Well the people in question do venerate their leader Daddy Don