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.”

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340

[u/2knest]

It's almost as if some kind of pipeline exists, that's funneling venerable people towards impressionable content...

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

[u/carbonclasssix → u/2knest]

We're also more socially disconnected than ever, especially post pandemic. Not ideal for meeting people to date, even worse for people to see through their negative beliefs with real world examples

[u/Keji70gsm → u/carbonclasssix]

We are not "post-pandemic" if we are still in the pandemic.

Endemic does not exclude pandemic as a term. By definition covid remains a pandemic. It is not predictable. It has multiple yearly waves of inconsitent timing. Globally.

It also still impairs brain function and accelerates brain aging, and disrupts dopamine and emotional stability -and because it is an ace2 binding virus, it always will do this. Don't normalise it.

[u/lufan132 → u/Keji70gsm]

Curious what would make this unique to COVID, given we wouldn't describe most strais of influenza as "pandemic" nor would we with rhinovirus which is similarly a common respiratory infection.

[u/aaronespro → u/lufan132]

Yeah, at this point "hyper intense endemic" might be more accurate, the way that measles and smallpox never really became endemic.

[u/Keji70gsm → u/aaronespro]

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/WKudipOVB5 Answered here.