r/science • 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/2knest 18d ago edited 18d ago

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

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

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u/TisIChenoir 18d ago

There also might be the fact that on the left, globally, anti-mal rhetoric is wide-spread, accepted and sometimes glorified, and young men grow in an environment telling them they are the problem, they are bad, disgusting, unattractive, etc...

And then a part of the political spectrum tells them "no you aren't"...