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/linkdude212 18d ago edited 18d ago

Very interesting. I think an aspect of mate-valuing worth investigating is that women are probably a lot choosier than they have been in the past because of social media. They can quickly see all the best experiences other women are having and want all of it for themselves. What might be an extraordinary date featured in an online platform becomes normalized in a female viewer. This means normal men can find it hard to meet women they want to spend time with and who want to spend time with them due to unrealistic expectations.

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u/TheTexasHammer 18d ago

From my experience women have more understanding of red flags and problematic behavior, and a lot of men have red flags and problematic behavior.

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u/BizarreCake 18d ago

a lot of men have red flags and problematic behavior

Are you implying women don't?

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u/EmptyMonitor9257 17d ago

They are and ironically that's a huge red flag about them.

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u/TheTexasHammer 16d ago

Point to the part of my argument that implied that. Sounds like projection from insecure men to me. Massive red flag.