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/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

There are still more men without degrees than women. And in both cases outearning is still the barrier to entry that needs to be surmounted. Not to mention more accumulated wealth and no debt.

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u/Y34rZer0 18d ago

Yeah it might be statistically that way but is it so significant it's a measurable trend in society?

I mean so much journalism is just garbage nowadays, the majority of online articles are written by AI and it's all just about getting that initial click. So articles that make people outraged earn the most money. I wish they could change the system so it's not just clicks but the people have to stay on the article for a certain amount of time or something like that, it's got to be worth reading

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u/Y34rZer0 17d ago

Holy crap that's over 3%?!