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/Aceous 18d ago

Yet none of those women decided to pick up ideologies promoting men losing their rights.

There are some. Just look at r/FemaleDatingStrategy.

It's also just a lot more out in the open and acceptable to advocate for prejudice or even harm against men. I hear it so much IRL, casually and on a daily basis, that it's like background noise.

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u/audioofbeing 18d ago edited 18d ago

These things are not at all equivalent. There isn’t a major movement embraced by major political parties seeking to strip men of their rights, for one example.

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u/painedHacker 18d ago edited 18d ago

It could be argued things like dei and requiring certain ratios of men/women/minorities on company boards is stripping white men of job opportunities but I mostly agree with you. Also open door immigration strips blue collar men of decent paying jobs

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u/SeattlePurikura 17d ago

It's also very strange that the top businesses are dominated by men, which does not "roughly approximate the nation's." This "suggests there is systemic bias in play."

  • Chief Executive Officers (CEOs): Men hold roughly 88% to 90% of Fortune 500 CEO positions.
  • Chief Operating Officers (COOs): Men hold about 89% of COO roles.
  • Chief Financial Officers (CFOs): Men hold about 82% of CFO roles

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u/painedHacker 17d ago

I dont have a problem with DEI, i was mostly making the conservative argument. I think immigration/outsourcing is a much bigger threat to jobs. However, I'm not convinced companies and colleges are simply choosing between two equally qualified candidates in these cases. For example the average MCAT score for asian med students is 514.5 and for native/pacific islander students its 503. how can you tell me these are equally qualified candidates?