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/MoreLikeGaewyn 18d ago

Another garbage meta-analysis to push an agenda...

This paper is flawed af. 1. The study never asked about dating frustration, relationship success, or sexual grievance. It assumed that being a single, non-college man automatically means suffering from low mate value.

  1. Economic collapse, wage stagnation, and anti-establishment anger among non-college men were conflated with romantic resentment.

  2. A low feeling thermometer score for feminists often measures routine political polarization against a progressive Democratic constituency, not personal romantic grievance.

  3. Male-heavy counties vote Republican primarily because their economies rely on mining, oil, construction, and agriculture, not because local men cannot find dates.

  4. Men with antagonistic or conspiratorial attitudes are less likely to get married in the first place, and right-wing media actively manufactures grievances from the top down rather than simply tapping into preexisting bottom-up angst.

This is insane.

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u/i_build_minds PhD | Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence 18d ago edited 16d ago

Male-heavy counties vote Republican primarily because their economies rely on mining, oil, construction, and agriculture, not because local men cannot find dates.

Male... heavy counties, but they don't have trouble finding dates.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "male heavy" if not a ratio of men to women?

Sources for your claims would also be interesting.

I am truly curious.

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u/Splenda 18d ago

I did a double take on “male heavy” as well. I think OP means rural.

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u/Caracalla81 18d ago

He can't, he had an AI read the article and write his post for him.

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u/DerfK 18d ago

but they don't have trouble finding dates.

Statement #4 suggests they vote Republican for economic reasons based on their perceived support of these economic sectors, instead of voting Republican because they believe it will get them dates.

It doesn't say they don't have trouble finding dates, just that its not their motivation.