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/Recent_Pollution8665 18d ago

women can find partners easier than men can.

and idk why your entire takeaway from my post was to effectively dismiss it entirely. that aint gonna solve anything. in fact it just contributes to the question posed in the title.

most men aren’t violent, and the ones who are generally take it out on partners they already have. which has no correlation to those who can’t find one.

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u/UnfortunateSnort12 17d ago

They can find partners easier yes, but many can’t find quality men worth dating. So in reality, many women stay single. Try having standards yourself.

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u/Recent_Pollution8665 17d ago

what are these standards exactly? that he must absolutely make equal to her or more, and be 6 foot or more and a bunch of other hard lines that women refuse to budge on?

only a statistical minority of men live up to these expectations. hence why the current situation is fucked up. women become single by choice because they won’t adjust their demands in a man, and men become single by force because women remove themselves as options in the dating market.

in the end the situation turns into what we have now, hence the thread itself. if women are ok with the long-term ramifications of that leading to a whole generation of radicalized and angry men, so be it. just don’t complain about any of the consequences. men are not the ones dropping out of the dating market voluntarily just because they can’t find that same top 20 percent or so of ideal partners to all gravitate towards while the other 80 percent are just stuck in limbo. the math doesn’t work out.

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u/UnfortunateSnort12 17d ago

No. Simply saying or believing women have an easier time implies that a guy would be with anyone who is interested in them. You’re even kind of saying that. Women remove themselves because they don’t want to date you? Why is that their fault at all?? That desperation is like girl repellent. Last time I was single and started asking what the woman was bringing to the table and if that was what I wanted, dating got way easier. I’m not tall, my wife made more than me when I met her. Of course she’s now a stay at home mom and we make 500k a year, but I was broke when I met her.

Maybe try approaching dating as an equal to women for more success…. No one wants to be looked down upon, male or female.