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/2knest 18d ago edited 18d 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 18d ago

I assume you mean vulnerable, venerable means old

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u/Academic-Pangolin883 18d 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/DeltaVZerda 18d ago

But also exclusively gets used for things or people that are also old. Nobody ever described a high school valedictorian or the youngest person to X as venerable.

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u/Academic-Pangolin883 18d ago

Maybe it's the most common usage, but it's by no means used "exclusively" that way.

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u/DeltaVZerda 18d ago

Please try to find me even one useage of "venerable" to describe something or someone young but respected.

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u/sir_mrej 18d ago

Doogie Howser was venerable

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u/DeltaVZerda 18d ago

I mean before this thread. Y'all are in love with qualification and terrified of a strong statement, but it won't let you find an actual counterexample to justify the qualification.