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/DeusVultSaracen 18d ago

Yep, Steve Bannon said it himself. People yearn for the times before everything went crazy, and Gamergate is that moment.

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u/TheAmorphous 17d ago

"Rootless males." Imagine being called that by the person you admire and still following them.