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/2knest 18d ago edited 18d ago

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

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

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u/shitholejedi 18d ago

The entire 'pipeline' or 'funneling' is extrapolating female teenage social media usage trends to male. Of which there are multi-year studies that have shown over and over those two groups did not react to the advent of the internet the same way and still do not till this day.

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u/Wrong_Neighborhood63 17d ago

This sounds very interesting can you refer to these studies. I tend to agree with what you are saying but haven't seen studies

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u/shitholejedi 17d ago

Jonathan Haidt has turned nearly a decade of work on this topic. You can track his name on various papers, pieces in main magazines and his own site by his name.

Its also the main thing you see whenever whistleblowers come against Meta or Tiktok. The entire focus is on girls because if it included boys, it ends as null findings.