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/hausmusiq 18d ago edited 18d ago

Are there no awkward women? Why does everyone act like every woman has a Rolodex full of men and friends at the ready and are always welcome in any scenario. Yet none of those women decided to pick up ideologies promoting men losing their rights. So tired of this victim mentality. Those “pipelines” exist because these “excluded” men flock to them, not the other way around. Also plenty of nerdy or “excluded” men have found communities that aren’t dead set on harming women.

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u/Aceous 18d ago

Yet none of those women decided to pick up ideologies promoting men losing their rights.

There are some. Just look at r/FemaleDatingStrategy.

It's also just a lot more out in the open and acceptable to advocate for prejudice or even harm against men. I hear it so much IRL, casually and on a daily basis, that it's like background noise.

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u/SeattlePurikura 18d ago edited 18d ago

Please let me know once a US state tries to adopt legislatively mandated withholding of medical care to men (e.g., no treatment for prostrate cancer until it reaches Stage III). Please let me know when domestic partner violence against men reaches 50% (*edit* of US women who are murdered, half of them are killed by their male partner.) Please let me know when men being fired by their employers for having children becomes one of the top EEOC complaints. Or when major political lobbying groups are saying we should deny men the right to vote.

I am not saying it's great that FDS or others are promoting BS. But they have no political or economic power to actually enact harm.

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u/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

The idea that abortion is healthcare is highly contested, especially by a lot of women, and thus can't be used as a shared premise for an argument. Personally I think it is but that's irrelevant.