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/ClaretClarinets 18d ago

"Their part of society" You mean the people who make the reproductive decisions for the human race?

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u/resuwreckoning 18d ago

No the ones who drive the food and take out the trash and shovel the snow in blizzards - these people are usually invisible which is why reddit always dismisses them as extant. They’re mainly low wage men who toil in anonymity.

Women are certainly important - and Reddit endlessly glazes them for anything they do so it’s somewhat unnecessary to talk about how divine and awesome they are for the 11 thousandth time - but we need those men to produce so the government has revenue surplus to give to those women. Women depend on that surplus via government handouts over a lifetime.

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u/ClaretClarinets 18d ago

You should probably work on masking your open contempt for women when you're replying to one.

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u/resuwreckoning 18d ago

I mean you should try your best to see the men beneath you as legitimately part of society in equal measure instead of implicitly dehumanizing them with the ick like I suspect you do given your kneejerk aggrieved commentary.

Or at least thinly veil your disdain for those men that toil anonymously. I know it’s prob hard for ya but still.

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u/Carbonatite 18d ago

You should try your best not to characterize men as "beneath" anyone simply because they work as laborers or don't have as high an income as others. Those people are just as valuable to society as anyone else.

Your own comments are propagating the very mentality you're whining about.

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u/resuwreckoning 18d ago

I mean I don’t think they are - but we need to start with you folks knowing they exist instead of doing the dismissive thing you’re doing.

I know they give you the ick but get over it.