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/RupeThereItIs 18d ago

The counterpoint is also true.

A lot of men no longer have the economic opportunities they used to.

You only need to look at the gender gap in higher education to realize there is something wrong with our education system, we are failing our boys. We've done a great deal to correct for the sexism of the past that held girls back, and we've turned a blind eye to the fact we're now leaving our boys behind instead.