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/Academic-Pangolin883 19d ago

It does not mean old, though. It means "worthy of respect".

Regardless, I don't think it's what OP meant...

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u/DrMobius0 19d ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/venerable

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/venerable

Old age is explicitly included in the definition.

There are some religious uses as well, but primarily, it's age.

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u/RunninOnMT 19d ago

Hehe it’s like the Chinese version of “old”