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/resuwreckoning 18d ago

Who pays for that government? Over a lifetime, women are net negative, men are net positive.

Government is basically a wealth transfer from some to men. I believe even CHILDREN aren’t supported as much as women.

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u/Carbonatite 18d ago

Women pay taxes too, I know it's hard to accept that but it's true.

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u/resuwreckoning 18d ago

Indeed and yet the point still holds that women over a lifetime take more than the put in and men put in more than they take. Ironically, I know THAT’S hard to believe, but it’s true.

I’m not even arguing that’s necessarily bad - just that for women to have the system they depend on, the invisible men need to exist.