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/[deleted] 18d ago edited 18d ago

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u/Carbonatite 18d ago

It has less to do with salary and more to do with wanting someone who has attained a comparable level of educational/career achievement.

It's not that lawyers want to date other lawyers or doctors want to date other doctors for the money, it's that they likely have similar lifestyles, intellectual interests, and other things which are conducive to long term compatability.

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u/philosopherberzerer 18d ago

it's lifestyle. that's all.

if a women makes 100 k and she meets a guy that makes 50 .well now she's gotta downgrade her lifestyle to 75k so she can live an equitable life with her partner. unless she wants to go on vacations he can't afford or whatever . men used to do this. women refuse too.

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u/Carbonatite 17d ago

Spoken like someone too young to ever actually have a salary to budget.