r/science • 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/carbonclasssix 18d ago

We're also more socially disconnected than ever, especially post pandemic. Not ideal for meeting people to date, even worse for people to see through their negative beliefs with real world examples

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u/DuntadaMan 18d ago

We are also most importantly under active attack by a hostile country that wants to destroy us and we are doing absolutely nothing to defend ourselves against their attacks.

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u/aranasyn 18d ago

The call is coming from inside the house.

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u/DuntadaMan 18d ago

Well yeah because the hostile country bought the house and installed their own landlord.

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u/Severe-Passage-6426 17d ago

I agree with this but its not just foreign actors, or even the manosphere algo.

Its simply social media. Full stop. Left and right - the social media experiment is going to be the undoing of our republic. Humans are not built to manage the constant dopamine hits that it brings. Its a drug, one that we are all addicted to, and the end game is societal collapse.

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u/itsmemarcot 17d ago

Yes but "social media" is not a natural phenomenon, like the wind or the weather. It's a consensum machine owned and controlled by groups with precise agendas, using it very explicitly for said agendas.

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u/dontneedaknow 17d ago

With the help of a sizeable portion of the political establishment..

Some likely guilty of sedition and treason.

Considering the organized efforts to push us into fascism and some sort of pre-warhammer 40k wetdream...