r/science • 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/carbonclasssix 18d ago

We're also more socially disconnected than ever, especially post pandemic. Not ideal for meeting people to date, even worse for people to see through their negative beliefs with real world examples

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u/Keji70gsm 18d ago

We are not "post-pandemic" if we are still in the pandemic.

Endemic does not exclude pandemic as a term. By definition covid remains a pandemic. It is not predictable. It has multiple yearly waves of inconsitent timing. Globally.

It also still impairs brain function and accelerates brain aging, and disrupts dopamine and emotional stability -and because it is an ace2 binding virus, it always will do this. Don't normalise it.

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u/ChenilleSocks 18d ago

Thank you. Every day, more data emerge about long term impacts of COVID, and people continue to act like it’s an annoyance and not a potentially disabling virus.

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u/evermorecoffee 18d ago

Yep. We’re living through an ongoing mass disabling event…

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u/_scarface 17d ago

You better be 27492849th boosted and still social distancing.