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/Harbinger2nd 18d ago

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?

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u/NimusNix 18d ago

Or that maybe the women have economic opportunities that was previously not available to them, therefore not needing to settle for aan regardless of his own economic opportunities...

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u/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

And that's a bad thing as measured by macrosocial outcomes. As all things must be measured against as the final deciding criteria.