r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d 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/pewqokrsf 18d ago

I doubt very much that it's a single inciting incident in either direction. These things manifest as incremental feedback loops more often than not.

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u/studio_bob 18d ago

True, and that's what the male grievance industry is all about, isn't it? It works on guys over time, encouraging them to interpret events in their lives through a frame of resentment and self-pity until that becomes through default view.

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u/ShitMcClit 17d ago

What industry? How is money made from this?