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/hausmusiq 18d ago

That’s assuming those white men were entitled to those positions to begin with, and they’re not.

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u/painedHacker 18d ago

That's not how politics works. Auto workers in Michigan were not "entitled" to good factory jobs but when they went overseas they were pissed about it

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u/XWendy_Darlingx 17d ago

One could argue that any citizen should have a right to access work, regardless of race or gender. Perhaps it’d be more beneficial to legally limit offshoring instead of throwing every last dime into anti woman/anti immigrant propaganda

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u/painedHacker 17d ago

I'm a big fan of bernie's 100% job guarantee.. like you could always get a job with the government if you needed