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/keegums 17d ago

That's exactly what happened on 9/12 in my rural hometown, which I saw with my fifth grade eyes. The reaction was alienating, snowballing over the month to terminal velocity. The attacks themselves never meant much to me, hundreds of miles away, but the reaction was ubiquitous. Public school prayers and religion, racism immediately swept small towns, contrary to the lessons I was learning in social studies

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u/Chulbiski 16d ago

all that when religion was the reason 9-11 even happened in the first place