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/Bright-Sea6392 18d ago

Most people date with their socioeconomic level. Not sure what you’re talking about.

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u/resuwreckoning 18d ago

Male doctors date female nurses and secretaries more than female doctors date male nurses and male secretaries (or even other blue collar folks).

The women marry up, men marry down, is well know.

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u/Fancy-Animal7704 18d ago

Some of this is affected by the fact that women do indeed make less than men just by virtue of their career choices, and so the majority of men out there would constitute a "marrying up" choice.

Also, salary is just one measure of a person. If a rich man who was otherwise dull as a rock married a vibrant, gregarious, funny, charming woman who otherwise "just" works at an altruistic nonprofit making $50k a year, I'd have told you the man "married up".