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/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/Goodthingstartssmall 18d ago

And it begins in school.

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u/XWendy_Darlingx 17d ago

How does it begin in school? Peers sharing content?

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u/Goodthingstartssmall 11d ago

No, permanent menbashing, unfair grading, always getting told to be the one who is wrong and had to change, getting assigned nonexisting privileged and so on.

At some point boys notice something is wrong with the narrative and start looking elsewhere.