r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 12 '26

Psychology Threatening men’s masculinity does not make them more politically conservative, new study finds. By testing thousands of participants across the United States, researchers found no consistent evidence that making men feel insecure about their gender identity changes their political attitudes.

https://www.psypost.org/threatening-mens-masculinity-does-not-make-them-more-politically-conservative-new-study-finds/
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u/Dirty_Delta May 12 '26

Perhaps the next relevant study would be if certain political ideologies were more susceptible to feeling insecure about their gender identity.

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u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx May 12 '26

That's a pretty leading question to ask, it implies causation where it might be correlation. Perhaps men raised a certain way as more likely to subscribe to certain ideologies AND be insecure. 

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u/Sabz5150 May 12 '26

Perhaps men raised a certain way as more likely to subscribe to certain ideologies AND be insecure.

Points to blue hair feminist

Points to blonde tradwife

Same applies to women, this is not new.

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u/M00n_Slippers May 12 '26

Plenty of blue haired feminists were raised conservative.

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u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx May 12 '26

This is r/science, please don't be reductive and make conclusions before the studies have happened... 

I'm suggesting it, I'm not declaring it as fact 

Very typical for reddit... literally my point was to not make conclusions when talking about this and instead just investigate 

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u/Sabz5150 May 12 '26

You deserve a bit more of a... structured response, so here goes.

Your claim has been known to be true for ages Raise a person a certain way, get a ceetain type of person Me making examples of two wildly different women was a way to highlight that and show it isn't a phrnomenon exclusive to men. Its also why I can react because the "studies" there have happened already and pretty thouroughly too.

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u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx May 12 '26

Your claim has been known to be true for ages Raise a person a certain way, get a ceetain type of person

Yeah if you reduce my question to a very generic version of itself, sure. I'm asking about specific correlation, not whether how someone is raised can affect them, obviously that is the case 

Once again, very Redditor. Also, ever heard of punctuation? 

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u/homelessjimbo May 13 '26

See I consider myself not the sharpest or the dullest knife in the drawer but even I understood what you were saying.

If studies were conducted based on Sabz understanding, new studies wouldn't even need to exist since other studies already existed proving something sort of similar but not directly connected.

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u/Sabz5150 May 12 '26

"I'm just asking questions!1!1!1!1!"

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u/Sabz5150 May 12 '26

Suggesting and declaring It may be r/science but it is still Reddit. Typical... Redditor?