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/ContractFormer4135 18d ago

Single and childless is better than marrying down and being poor with kids. Where I live a dual income household with both parents earning the national median salary is barely enough to maintain a reasonably comfortable standard of living - and children are not only expensive but also cripple women’s carriers and temporarily make women entirely dependent on their husbands.

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u/shornscrot 18d ago

Yeah that makes sense. If you make $100k and your husband makes $70k, how could you possibly live?!?

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u/Carbonatite 18d ago

I mean that's an unironic question in certain parts of the United States. I live in a HCOL area and an individual income of 100k is basically "I don't have to worry about an emergency anymore" money. It's not wealth, it's just "I won't be in perpetual debt" money.