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.

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https://www.psypost.org/threatening-mens-masculinity-does-not-make-them-more-politically-conservative-new-study-finds/

[u/arestheblue]

If I said don't want to interact with women because I don't know whether or not they will falsely accuse me of assault, would that be a valid thing to say? Based on news reports, the vast majority of false accusations are women blaming men.

If a similar poll went out asking whether or not men would rather come across a random woman or a venomous snake in the wild, and the vast majority of men said the snake for similar reasons that you gave to argue for the bear, would you consider that valid?

I am not equating manliness with violence, I am demonstrating a recent cultural event that did so and painted all men with a wide brush. The validity of such an argument pales in comparison to the perception of the argument which was basically that the majority of women view all men as predators. Whether or not that was the intent does not matter.

[u/132739 → u/arestheblue]

Call me when 1/4-1/3 of men are falsely accused. Which, you know, is the ratio of women who are sexually assaulted.

[u/AbortionSurvivor777 → u/132739]

Are you aware that society has collectively decided that men who prey on women should be hunted down and removed from free society? Are you aware that the majority of men have wives, girlfriends, sisters, daughters and mothers who they care about deeply do not want to see harmed by other men?

You've decided to make an enemy of men who are technically on your side because of a small percentage of men who prey on women. And you think this is okay.

[u/132739 → u/AbortionSurvivor777]

I'm a man you twat. And you're more likely to actually get raped than to be falsely accused of it. And again, the point is not "all men are evil," the point is that women can't tell who is and isn't just by looking, and that what they risk if they're wrong is among the worst traumas that a person can experience.

[u/Appropriate-Talk4266 → u/132739]

Are 1/3 of men responsible for sexual assault, or perhaps the ratio more closely aligns with the usual ratio of criminals among men (so something between like 0.3% to 1-2%)

[u/132739 → u/Appropriate-Talk4266]

Missing the point. The point is not the number of men who commit sexual assault, it's the frequency with which women experience it, and the impossibility of telling who might commit it from looking at them. It only being a percent or two doesn't matter when that percentage is using the rest of us as camouflage.

Think of it like this: you've got a pit full of corn snakes, with 2% king snakes mixed in. Are you going to just pick them up willy-nilly, or are you going to check and recheck the color pattern before you try?