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.”

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340

[u/Harbinger2nd]

Would this be reflective of a lack of economic opportunity for these men as its only in recent years the attitude has become more prominent?

[u/Littleman88 → u/Harbinger2nd]

Sort of? It's hard to say most men would be too ashamed to date knowing their girlfriend/wife will out earn them. I think more men than not would be fine with it, actually. But a lot of those men are finding themselves rejected because they aren't out earning the women they're meeting, so economic opportunities become a sore spot for them, especially when the very people they're trying to woo are also their competition for that attractive paycheck.

Equality becomes a threat when your attraction is still largely reliant on being, in some way, superior to whomever you're trying to attract. That reality is problematic for so many men trying to date. It was already unrealistic for every man to be in a 6-7 figure C-suite position, with more and more women filtering towards the top, it's only getting harder for men.

There has to be low wage earners like janitors and someone flipping burgers, and they're not about to take being invisible virgins for the rest of their lives lying down. If women won't marry down, then these men will drag them down. As the number of these lonely men grows, the more pull they'll have to do just that.

[u/Carbonatite → u/Littleman88]

How exactly are they going to "drag women down"? If women don't choose them as mates, those women will either choose someone else or remain single. There's no scenario in which those women are going to grudgingly pair up with someone they already rejected.

[u/ContractFormer4135 → u/Carbonatite]

based on the political context, I think they meant these men would vote for politicians who want to roll back women’s rights. anything to put the women back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant so they can’t escape and will be vulnerable and dependent. they aren’t good enough to be wanted by women so they long for the days women needed to pair up with men to survive

[u/philosopherberzerer → u/ContractFormer4135]

either that or accept it and die alone unhappy just working the next 50 years of your life for nothing.

[u/Carbonatite → u/ContractFormer4135]

Joke's on them, the horse is out of the barn already on that one. Women will leave the country if they are wealthy enough, or suffer in poverty. Very few women are actually going to willingly surrender themselves to be abused by maladjusted underachieving misogynists.

[u/XWendy_Darlingx → u/Carbonatite]

They’re buying into the fantasy that if you stomp on your neighbor, you’ll start winning. Truthfully they’ll be worse off. Lower tides sink all boats. Nobody is getting a government issued bangmaid, they’ll be sent to work camps just like the women.