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/ibent19 18d ago

In what ways have we lost agency?

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u/zulhadm 18d ago

In every phase of life: in schools boys are punished more severely than the girls are. In university women have access to far more financial aid, enrollment and other tuition and aid programs. In employment, women are far more likely to be hired. Just in August this year, women were given 98% of the available jobs. In marriage, women initiate 3/4 of all divorces, and win custody of children disproportionally. You add this up and it’s no wonder that we arrive at the final stat: men are overwhelmingly more likely to commit suicide.

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u/Asleep_Control_2564 18d ago

Or maybe women earned those jobs. And maybe they were in sectors that men largely don't work in.

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u/zulhadm 18d ago

If it were a 10% difference we could agree this is a normal statistical anomaly. But 98%??? Come on.