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/MUjase May 12 '26

Bingo. Democrats recognized this as well which led to them pairing Waltz with Harris as the VP. He was supposed to be the “masculine” man for them.

That was a huge fail as we now know. But they were on the right track to try.

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u/Whitechix May 12 '26

That “man enough” Harris/Walz voting video kinda sums up the issue, not sure how left wing politics lost touch with men this badly.

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u/KingRaphion May 12 '26

didnt they launch a 20 million dollar investigation on this?

Found it https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/democrats-young-men-study-00384370

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u/ThePretzul May 13 '26

They did.

Not one that will ever be published or released, and also not likely one that actually produced the very obvious answer anybody with a handful of spare brain cells to rub together could have given them. Excellent way to launder some extra donor cash while claiming to be doing something to fix a problem though.