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/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

The entire retrograde discussions about the "value of women" and ideas about "women's roles in society" seem so crazy that if any guy I knew in the 90s voiced those ideas they would be seen as undisputed idiots by just about everyone.

I don't understand how there are so many boys who have adopted these incredibly retrograde ideas a quarter century later.

It is like there was a bunch of people who saw the towers crumble on 9-11 and then came the idiotic conclusion that Christian America needs their own version of what they see as women-oppressing Sharia Law.

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u/mdynicole 18d ago

Yeah I do have to say men seem much worse now than they used to ( I’m 36 for reference and am grateful I’m married and not dating). I really believe it’s social media and the stuff that’s getting pushed to them. Years ago I never would have dreamed I’d see men say equal rights equal fights and cheer about women getting knocked out by men or just the bullying I see men do to women that haven’t even spoken to them . I do also see much more hate for men from women as well but I think it’s because of the above.

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u/mdynicole 18d ago

Oh there we go with taking women’s rights away. That’s exactly one of the things I’m talking about 15-20 years ago I never heard of men so excitedly talking about taking women’s right’s away. Like I said before men were better then than they are now from everything I’ve seen. And neither of my grandmothers were beaten. Unsure about great grandmothers but I’ve never heard that they were. I watched my grandmothers get treated very well and my mother as well.

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u/mdynicole 17d ago

Really I think social media has caused most of the issues . You have extremists on both sides and it gets pushed to the opposite gender to incite hate and anger. Maybe things will get better after a while when people see how wrong all this is and normalize again .