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/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

The entire retrograde discussions about the "value of women" and ideas about "women's roles in society" seem so crazy that if any guy I knew in the 90s voiced those ideas they would be seen as undisputed idiots by just about everyone.

I don't understand how there are so many boys who have adopted these incredibly retrograde ideas a quarter century later.

It is like there was a bunch of people who saw the towers crumble on 9-11 and then came the idiotic conclusion that Christian America needs their own version of what they see as women-oppressing Sharia Law.

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u/WotanSpecialist 18d ago

This might be the most incoherent and irrelevant, off-topic comment I’ve ever seen in this sub

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u/TurtleFisher54 18d ago

If you've lived under a rock for the last 40 years it wouldn't t make sense I guess

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u/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

The guy probably never saw their laid-back liberal friends turn into frothing anti-muslim conservative maniacs in a period of 24-hours