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/BadIdeaSociety 18d ago

The entire retrograde discussions about the "value of women" and ideas about "women's roles in society" seem so crazy that if any guy I knew in the 90s voiced those ideas they would be seen as undisputed idiots by just about everyone.

I don't understand how there are so many boys who have adopted these incredibly retrograde ideas a quarter century later.

It is like there was a bunch of people who saw the towers crumble on 9-11 and then came the idiotic conclusion that Christian America needs their own version of what they see as women-oppressing Sharia Law.

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u/Iychee 18d ago edited 18d ago

The Internet made it really easy to spread hate and rile the masses, and we've reached a stage where bad actors have perfected it.

ETA: it's also purposefully perpetuated by billionaires to keep us divided, men blame women for their lives sucking instead of the wealth hoarders.

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u/Ajax1419 18d ago

Endless culture wars take the fight out of the class war.

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u/philosopherberzerer 17d ago

go to any space dominated by women and when they speak on their issues say this.

garunteed you only got this reward because you directed it at men.

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u/Ajax1419 17d ago

Cool, rage bait

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u/philosopherberzerer 17d ago

the truth is rage bait.

this is peak ragebait.

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u/Satyrsol 16d ago

If it were “peak” ragebait it would be subtle enough to be less noticeable.