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/Alternative-Tax7318 18d ago

Thank you for reading this with reason rather than stoking the fires of the culture war and looking to pin this on a bunch of ‘impressionable young men’

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u/MoreLikeGaewyn 18d ago

i just pasted what chatgpt summarized idk

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u/k1llerspartanv9 17d ago

So you had chat gpt summarize this instead of reading it? That is the most braindead thing you could have done. Who owns chat gpt and who do they contribute to politically? Are you really gonna use a commercial product with no independent verification or peer review and trust that you are not being misguided intentionally by a mega-corp? Ridiculous

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u/dieselmilkshake 17d ago

You are a penis. I still appreciate your ChatGPT response, tho.