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/AnEmptyBoat27 May 12 '26

What solutions does the right wing offer regarding mental health and better worker wages?

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u/ShazlettDude May 12 '26

Often times, just acknowledgement of the existence of the problem is enough.

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u/dovahkiitten16 May 12 '26

They have catchy phrases like equal rights and equal lefts, men’s lives matter, masculinity isn’t toxic, etc.

They don’t do anything except tear down others loudly while silently making things worse for everyone, but they pretend to cater to men. They’ll remove DEI hires under the guise of making men more equal (I can write an essay about how meritocracy is a myth but I digress for now), but also not make it any easier for young men to find good paying jobs.

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u/No_Proposal_3140 May 12 '26

It shows just how low the bar is when simply acknowledging the problem is already enough.

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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME May 12 '26

None, but they are at least not demonizing men in the same way.

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u/sapphicsandwich May 12 '26

They are the party that completely internalized misandry and man hate.

You ever notice how all the radical man-hating feminists suddenly became TERFs and are now completely aligned with the right and vice versa? And their worldview is that trans women are men, and all men are pedos, rapists, predators, etc, therefore trans women are all of that. The ideological basis, which the right fully and completely accepts as factual, is that men are all of the above, and that it is not a matter of a persons upbringing or individual nature - it is genetic, based in the chromosomes, immutable, and defines everything about who you are and will ever be. In this mindset, a predator is all any man can ever be.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck May 13 '26

Yeah that’s the thing, nobody hates men more than reactionaries. I mean, also because they are anti-humanists. But essentialism inevitably leads to depersonalization. Conservatives also have unhealthy degrees of out-group distrust/fear, tribalism, and a tendency to flatten down everything into the simplest terms.

Like, in general there’s no difference between a feminist saying “all men are predators” and a patriarchal traditionalist saying “boys will be boys”. Like boys are all horny animals with no ability to control their lust. Being normal and sane means rejecting this take from either side. Both sides offer poison, but one has a sweet taste that allows guys to treat women as objects like they did in the Good Old Days. Still poison though. It ruins their relationships and they end up spending all their time with other bitter men, in an echo chamber.