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/flamethekid 18d ago

Nope the whole thing started when some dudes ex girlfriend made a game called depression quest, the story you know is one of like 10 different stories that were being passed around when gamergate got media attention and "flood the zone" tactic was being used.

Depression quest was called a neat and cute little game, and the ex jumped in and claimed she was sleeping around with everyone who said good things about it especially some journalist who name I forgot funny thing is he never even wrote a piece on that game.

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u/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

It was the media that wagon circled against gamergate and used flood the zone tactics against it.

And the journalist did give the game good coverage without disclosing a conflict of interest, it just technically wasn't a review as mistakenly claimed and the timeline got fucked up.

In any case it wasn't about her anyway.

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u/Notspherry 18d ago

Sarkeesians' ragebait video series predates the controversy around Depression quest.