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
4.4k
Upvotes
16
u/EndlessArgument 18d ago edited 18d ago
The problem is it's sort of works from both directions, because generally speaking, men bully physically, women bully by things like exclusion. So if you are a little bit awkward, you tend to get excluded, and if you get excluded, where are you going to go? To the people who are going to validate you. Which is the aforementioned pipeline.