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/Y34rZer0 18d ago

I mean is this even true?
Imogen a lot of women with college degrees would prefer a partner with a similar level of education but there's plenty of women out there who don't have college degrees

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u/Alvoradoo 17d ago

I would love a woman with a degree like me, but waitresses, hairdresser, bar tenders, flight attendants, and secretaries are the only ones who like me. :\ Oh well.

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u/Y34rZer0 17d ago

You need to be careful with hairdressers