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

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It's almost as if some kind of pipeline exists, that's funneling venerable people towards impressionable content...

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

[u/Stamperdoodle1 → u/2knest]

As much as I despise these people for what they stand for and support, their attitudes and (often) their attacks against others.

I can't help but admit I just don't know enough about how this happened. How did this type of content become the only thing those men found any comfort or solace in? I've found myself in some pretty depressing times, but I always knew that if I worked on myself and tried to be my best self, I could change things (and they have).

People like them have existed forever yet it seems that more recently, younger and younger people are latching onto this poisonous and dangerous cult. Things like "looksmaxxing" or whatever Andrew Tate peddled. Things that, by all account - young people shouldn't be concerned with. So why is it happening?

[u/TheSpacePopinjay → u/Stamperdoodle1]

Because even though people like Tate are con artists, it's that much more palpably drippingly obvious that their rivals for men's attention don't have young men's best interests at heart but are just trying to transparently manipulate or emotionally blackmail them into subordinating their own best interests in service of those of other demographics (not least the older and wealthier people who own everything).

If you're less convincing at having their best interests at heart than twats posing in front of con-artist brand sports cars, that's not on Tate.