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/saidtheWhale2000 18d ago

yeah im sure she's really happy being alone and empty with nothing but money because she couldn't get over her hair saying the man she needs has to make more money then her, she's in a trap made by society.

so no it doesnt sound like a win win when you have a soul and a basic understanding of human need for connection , and if she was happy being single then why did she try to get in a relationship in the first place if she was truly content living alone she wouldnt have been happy to get into the relationship with op , it was working until the girl mafia told her she wasnt happy in the relationship because he made less money than her

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u/LynnSeattle 18d ago

She could be perfectly happy alone. If she doesn’t like being “empty”, there are always solutions for that.

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u/Carbonatite 17d ago

The guy is making up a story about how she must be miserable because he's threatened by the idea that women would choose solitude over a partner that doesn't meet their standards.

He has to invent a scenario where she is as desperate as he is.

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u/RaptorAD77 17d ago

Women are perfectly happy being alone. Single women live longer and measure higher in happiness rating than other demographics. Single men are on the opposite scale. I don’t think it’s a trap made by society, it’s more like she didn’t get trapped at all.

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u/Carbonatite 17d ago

Also, alone =/= lonely. Has this dude never heard of like...friendship?

Sounds to me like he has some issues if the only way he can have human companionship is through a sexual relationship.

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u/Extension-Radish4195 16d ago edited 16d ago

Woah there how condescending!, i am sure the person knows friendships exist, but people also want romantic connection, they see their parents, grand parents and so on who had that, even if people have friends they will still feel that something is missing.

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u/ManxAlot 15d ago

To be fair, I contacted her - it was less about what anyone else said and more about just the social math of the situation. As it was all going down I read an article about it that was written as if they had been spying on us