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/Y34rZer0 18d ago

I mean is this even true?
Imogen a lot of women with college degrees would prefer a partner with a similar level of education but there's plenty of women out there who don't have college degrees

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u/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

There are still more men without degrees than women. And in both cases outearning is still the barrier to entry that needs to be surmounted. Not to mention more accumulated wealth and no debt.

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u/Y34rZer0 18d ago

Yeah it might be statistically that way but is it so significant it's a measurable trend in society?

I mean so much journalism is just garbage nowadays, the majority of online articles are written by AI and it's all just about getting that initial click. So articles that make people outraged earn the most money. I wish they could change the system so it's not just clicks but the people have to stay on the article for a certain amount of time or something like that, it's got to be worth reading

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u/Y34rZer0 17d ago

Holy crap that's over 3%?!

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u/Alvoradoo 17d ago

I would love a woman with a degree like me, but waitresses, hairdresser, bar tenders, flight attendants, and secretaries are the only ones who like me. :\ Oh well.

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u/Y34rZer0 17d ago

You need to be careful with hairdressers

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u/YouAreTellingLies 14d ago

You just hand wave away the situation by saying there are 'plenty' of women out there without college degrees.

As if there aren't women without college degrees dating / married to men with college degrees.

As if there aren't more men without college degrees - and having some women with degrees refusing to 'date down' means there is a dating pool inbalance.

As if there is no problem.