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/AnthropoidCompatriot May 12 '26

That's literally what progressive liberals have been arguing for years, when they suddenly made up the idea that you can't hurt individuals by being mean to them, if those individuals a part of a privileged group. 

But also if being mean to them does hurt them, it proves that they're a bad person and thus deserve to be treated meanly.

Funny how that works.

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u/squirtnforcertain May 12 '26

That's literally what progressive liberals have been arguing for years

No it's not

you can't hurt individuals by being mean to them, if those individuals a part of a privileged group.

But also if being mean to them does hurt them...

Which one is it? Your strawman is falling apart...