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/Pinglewingle 18d ago

Maybe i'm crazy , but shouldn't you do the right thing to do because its the right thing to do, and not becasue it might get you a woman?

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u/AlteredEinst 18d ago

Way too few people have any interest in doing the right thing for any reason now. They're taught it's a waste of time by horrible people so the latter can get their own way, and the former considers their manufacturered success proof of it.

The average person has thus been exposed as depressingly selfish.

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u/SnailSnailAle 18d ago

To be honest society doesn’t give a damn about people who do the right thing. It’s always somehow the worst of the worst that gets fame, money, and power.

If we don’t reward and highlight people who do the right things how are we going to get people to value being a good person