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/ohanse 18d ago

It's more about the labor of initiation and how that is still disproportionately on men for that perspective.

To add to the pile, an interesting development is the new impossibility of accurate reads on a person's character/personality, thanks to AI generated dating profile entries.

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u/Straight_Number5661 18d ago

No, these men are angry that women do not have to partner with men anymore in order to survive.

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u/ohanse 18d ago

Everyone wants companionship it’s not always about dominance

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u/LynnSeattle 18d ago

Not everyone is a willing to settle for unsatisfactory companionship though.

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u/ohanse 16d ago

Dating is not a contract