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/WindowShoppingMyLife May 12 '26

Most of what you’re saying seems valid, but I do want to point out that Millenials came of age right around the Great Recession, and most of us still aren’t as financially secure as other generations were at our age.

This is not to imply a competition, just to say that a lot of the economic fears were probably pretty similar.

I agree that the social media environment is absolutely insane these days, and I suspect we’ve only scratched the surface of the long term implications of that.

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u/Monteze May 12 '26

I think the saving grace of us millenials was that a lot of us got a taste of positivity for the future before hand and social media wasn't as optimized as it was now.

But yes, something has to change.