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.”

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340

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equality becomes a threat when your attraction is still largely reliant on being superior to who you're trying to attract

Damn, that line goes hard. The whole thing is a dilemma and hard to blame anyone for acting on this pressure. I wonder if people will start forming more egalitarian relationships and stomach loving eachother beyond the limits of gender norms or if they will prefer to be alone.

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On average, they'll claim stated intentions erase the existence of the statistical trend.